G. Mark Phillips is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Charleston where his litigation practice focuses on the trial of product liability cases. A member of the South Carolina Bar and the Florida Bar, Mr. Phillips has tried a significant number of product, construction, and general liability cases in South Carolina and in other venues across the United States during nearly 25 years of practice. Mr. Phillips is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an Advocate-level member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Mr. Phillips is recognized as a Leader in his Field by Chambers USA. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for product liability litigation, and Best Lawyers named him the 2012 Charleston, S.C., Product Liability Litigation – Defendants Lawyer of the Year. He also is recognized as a South Carolina SuperLawyer.  Additionally, Mr. Phillips is a recent past president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association.

Mr. Phillips has tried asbestos personal injury cases to verdict in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington state, and West Virginia, and has participated in asbestos personal injury trials in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Several of his recent asbestos personal injury trials ended with defense verdicts on May 17, 2011, March 1, 2006, May 19, 2005, Jan. 27, 2005, Aug. 20, 2003, Nov. 1, 2002, and Oct. 18, 2001. The March 1, 2006 and May 19, 2005 defense verdicts came in Madison County, Ill. On February 18, 2009, Mr. Phillips won a defense verdict in a two-week federal trial, for an automobile manufacturer, which arose under the state and federal Dealers Day in Court Act.

Since 1996, Mark Phillips has handled the defense of more than 200 synthetic stucco (Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems - EIFS) cases for South Carolina homebuilders. Mr. Phillips handled the first jury trial of a South Carolina EIFS case in May 2000.  More recently, he obtained a defense verdict for a homebuilder in a South Carolina synthetic stucco case on April 30, 2002. Through extensive experience in asbestos litigation, Mr. Phillips has developed a national network of experts in the fields of industrial hygiene and medicine, many of whom offer essential understanding and testimony in the defense of mold litigation.

Mr. Phillips is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and the Florida Supreme Court.

Actively involved in the life of the Charleston community, Mr. Phillips’ current affiliations include his service as past chairman and president of the Coastal Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts of America; past board member, Gibbes Museum of Art; board of directors, Kanuga Conferences, Inc.; membership on the development board of the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community; past vestryman and senior warden of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church; and trustee, The Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of South Carolina.

Mr. Phillips earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1986. After studying at St. John’s College of Oxford University in Oxford, England, Mr. Phillips earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of the South in 1983.