Morgan E. Spires
Senior Associate
1320 Main Street
17th Floor
Columbia, SC 29201
Morgan primarily works with the firm’s issues and appeals practice, with an emphasis on financial services matters and on the coordination of appellate, litigation, and trial strategies. She also practices in the areas of general business litigation, consumer financial services litigation, and insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
Morgan primarily works with the firm’s issues and appeals practice, with an emphasis on financial services matters and on the coordination of appellate, litigation, and trial strategies. She also practices in the areas of general business litigation, consumer financial services litigation, and insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
Education
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University of South Carolina School of Law,
JD,
summa cum laude
(2021)
- Editor-in-Chief of the South Carolina Law Review
- CALI Excellence for the Future Awards:
- Advanced Legal Analysis
- Appellate Advocacy
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Legal Writing for the Courts
- Problems in Professional Responsibility
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Wig and Robe
- Student Member, John Belton O’Neall American Inn of Court
- Recipient of the Coleman Karesh Award, Cy Young Award, Dean’s Medallion, John O. McDougall Family Law Award, Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award, and Victor Michalewitz Award for Excellence in Legal Writing
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Anderson University,
BA,
Humanities and the Law,
summa cum laude
(2018)
- Secretary, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society
- Denmark Society Graduate
Admissions
- South Carolina
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Clerkships
- Judicial Law Clerk, the Honorable Mary Geiger Lewis, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (2024 - 2026)
- Law Clerk, the Honorable George C. James Jr., Supreme Court of South Carolina (2021 - 2023)
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Morgan primarily works with the firm’s issues and appeals practice, with an emphasis on financial services matters and on the coordination of appellate, litigation, and trial strategies. She also practices in the areas of general business litigation, consumer financial services litigation, and insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
Education
-
University of South Carolina School of Law,
JD,
summa cum laude
(2021)
- Editor-in-Chief of the South Carolina Law Review
- CALI Excellence for the Future Awards:
- Advanced Legal Analysis
- Appellate Advocacy
- Constitutional Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Family Law
- Federal Courts
- Legal Writing for the Courts
- Problems in Professional Responsibility
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Wig and Robe
- Student Member, John Belton O’Neall American Inn of Court
- Recipient of the Coleman Karesh Award, Cy Young Award, Dean’s Medallion, John O. McDougall Family Law Award, Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award, and Victor Michalewitz Award for Excellence in Legal Writing
-
Anderson University,
BA,
Humanities and the Law,
summa cum laude
(2018)
- Secretary, Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society
- Denmark Society Graduate
Admissions
- South Carolina
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Clerkships
- Judicial Law Clerk, The Honorable Mary Geiger Lewis, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (2024 - 2026)
- Law Clerk, The Honorable George C. James Jr., Supreme Court of South Carolina (2021 - 2023)
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