GREENVILLE, S.C. – Nelson Mullins Greenville partner Jeff Gurney was recently honored with the Grady B. Anthony Public Service Award by the South Carolina Bar. This award was presented to Gurney during the South Carolina Young Lawyer’s Division Annual Retreat on May 13, 2023, and again at the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates meeting on May 18, 2023, in Greenville. 

Named in honor of a young South Carolina attorney who passed away in 2021, the Grady B. Anthony Public Service Award serves to highlight a member of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) who has acted selflessly in offering their time and energy to supporting colleagues, members of the community, and the legal profession, through YLD public service incentives. The president and the executive committee of the YLD select the award recipient every year.

With Nelson Mullins, Jeff has a multifaceted and diverse practice, which includes legal aspects of automated vehicles, private and public mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance matters, corporate and business entity law, nonprofit law, taxation, and complex estate planning.

Today’s South Carolina Bar was founded in 1975, after the merger between the original South Carolina Bar and the South Carolina Bar Association. It focuses on serving its more than 13,000 active members through collaboration and providing educational opportunities to better South Carolina’s legal profession. 

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