Integrated Media Publishing, which publishes Columbia Business Monthly, Greenville Business Magazine, Charleston Business Magazine, and B2B: The Grand Strand, has announced the winners of its annual Legal Elite awards in its August editions.

More than 40 attorneys from four different offices across South Carolina were chosen in multiple practice areas, including:

• Greenville
  • Ben Barnhill – Corporate Law (Securities; Banking and Finance)
  • Brad Rustin – Corporate Law (Banking and Finance)
  • Brittany McIntosh – Corporate Law (Banking and Finance)
  • David Wilkins – Government Relations
  • Dick Riley – Education Law
  • Eric Graben – Corporate Law (Business Organizations; Mergers & Acquisitions)
  • Henry Burwell – Appellate; International
  • Jay Rogers – Economic Development; International
  • John Jennings – Corporate Law (Mergers & Acquisitions)
  • Lindsay Builder – Civil Litigation; Professional Liability
  • Megan Rushton – Civil Litigation
  • Miles Coleman – Appellate
  • Neil Grayson – Corporate Law (Banking and Finance)
  • Rayja Fowler – Business Litigation
  • Ricky Davis – Corporate Law (Merger & Acquisitions)
  • Sam Outten – Business Litigation; Civil Litigation; Professional Liability
  • Wes Althoff – Corporate Law (Merger & Acquisitions)
  • Will Neinast – Civil Litigation
• Columbia
  • Bart Daniel – Antitrust
  • Carmen Thomas – Corporate Law (Banking and Finance)
  • Cory Manning – Corporate Investigations
  • Daniel J. Fritze – Corporate Law (Merger & Acquisitions; Business Organizations)
  • Dwight Drake – Government Relations
  • Edward G. Kluiters – Economic Development
  • Frank B.B. Knowlton – Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights; Business Litigation
  • Jack Pringle – Cyber Security
  • Jonathan Knicely – Civil Litigation
  • Matt Patterson – Business Litigation
  • Mitchell Brown – Appellate
  • Travis Dayhuff – Health Care Law
  • Weston Adams – Environmental Law
• Charleston
  • Brian Gillespie – Corporate Law-Merger & Acquisitions
  • Eli Poliakoff – Health Care Law
  • Mark Phillips – Product Liability (Defendant)
  • Jay Claypoole – Commercial Real Estate
  • Jennifer Davis – Estate and Trust (Planning)
  • John McElwaine – Intellectual Property and Innovation
  • Matt Austin – Criminal (White Collar)
  • Newman Jackson Smith – Environmental Law
  • Robert Brunson – Business Litigation
• Myrtle Beach
  • James F. McCrackin – Estate and Trust (Litigation)
  • Jeanne Guest – Health Care Law
  • Robert Calamari – Construction Law
  • Thomas Moran – Tax and Estate Planning
  • Wesley Moran – Civil Litigation

The 2024 Legal Elite lists honor attorneys based on peer votes from other attorneys in the Lowcountry, Midlands, and Upstate areas of the state. Attorneys must have nominations outside of their own firms to be included and cannot vote for themselves.