Jennifer Parrish Robinson is Legislative Counsel in the Firm’s Columbia office.

Ms. Robinson has extensive recent experience working with the South Carolina General Assembly and a thorough understanding of legislative processes. Before joining the Firm, she served as chief counsel to the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, beginning in 2004 as staff counsel. In addition, she served the House of Representatives as House Counsel to the State Regulation of Public Utilities Review Committee and the Judicial Merit Selection Commission. She advised legislators on major public policy initiatives including legislation on telecommunications, energy, insurance, banking, consumer affairs, and real estate issues, and Public Service Commission reform. Her duties included researching, advising and writing about candidates for the Employment Security Commission, Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper) Board of Directors, and Judicial and Public Service Commission positions. She served as one of the defense counsel in Sloan v Wilkins, a case before the South Carolina Supreme Court involving the constitutionality of a legislative enactment under the one-subject rule.

Ms. Robinson previously served as counsel and law clerk in the South Carolina Senate Office of Research (2001-2004) and was communications coordinator for former Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Peeler (1999-2000). She also worked with then-Congressman Lindsey Graham in his Washington, DC, office.

She has made presentations on “Freedom of Information Act” and “Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Intent”.

Ms. Robinson earned her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2003. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of South Carolina in 1998.