Jennifer W. Davis is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Charleston where she practices in federal and state taxation, economic development, and estate planning. A member of the South Carolina Bar, Ms. Davis works in tax planning, state and local economic incentives, controversy work, tax-exempt organizations, partnership tax, estate planning, and taxation of real estate transactions. Ms. Davis is a Certified Specialist in Taxation Law, a distinction awarded by the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Ms. Davis is a member of the American Bar Association (Tax Section), the Charleston County Bar Association, the Charleston Estate Planning Council, the Charleston Lawyers Club, the Charleston Tax Council, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association, the South Carolina Economic Developers Association, and the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association. Prior to joining Nelson Mullins, Ms. Davis worked with a leading U.S. accounting firm.

 

In 2004, Ms. Davis was selected by the Charleston Regional Business Journal for its Forty Under 40 award, which recognizes the Low Country's brightest business stars under the age of 40. See is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for her work in the area of Tax (2011).

Ms. Davis earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida in May 2000. In 1998, she earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of Wig and Robe and she received American Jurisprudence Awards in State and Local Tax and Advanced Civil Procedure. In 1995, Ms. Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and History, cum laude, from Wofford College.