Standing Up for South Carolina

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we hear from Attorney Taylor Grooms.

Taylor started his law career as a judicial law clerk. While clerking, Taylor participated in many trials that went to a verdict. As a result, he has broad experience in the jury trial experience. Taylor works for the Steinberg Law Firm as a personal injury lawyer, ensuring his clients receive the compensation they deserve as a result of injures suffered in medical malpractice or car accidents.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we meet Partner Thomas M. White.

Tom began his law career as a public defender and joined the Steinberg Law Firm in 1980. He is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar Association and the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. For the past fifteen years, Tom has been listed in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers For Workers’ Compensation. Tom exclusively handles work injury cases with many cases paid to the injured workers in excess of a million dollars.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we meet Partner Michael J. Jordan.

Michael J. Jordan joined the Steinberg Law Firm in 2006. Michael was drawn to the Steinberg Law Firm because of its long history, dedication to helping injured workers and strong reputation in personal injury trials. He especially recognized the importance of the firm’s reputation for delivering proven results for the injured people of South Carolina.

For three years in a row, Michael has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for 2016, 2017 and 2018. He was selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in 2014.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we meet attorney Kelly Alfreds.

Kelly M. Alfreds began working in the legal field at age 19. She practices out of our Summerville office and handles workers’ compensation and personal injury cases.

Kelly is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, Dorchester County Bar Association, Dorchester Chamber of Commerce, Injured Workers’ Advocates, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, South Carolina Bar Association and its Young Lawyers Division. She is also a certified mediator.

Kelly currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Development Committee for Children In Crisis d/b/a Dorchester Children’s Center, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization serving abused and neglected children and their families from Dorchester County and parts of Berkeley and Charleston Counties.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we meet Partner Benjamin W. Akery.

In 2008 Ben joined the venerable Steinberg Law Firm, which was founded in the 1920s on the principle that individuals deserved representation against forces bigger than themselves.

Ben became a partner at the firm in 2016. At Steinberg, he is concentrating on personal injury, workers’ compensation, and social security disability law.

Ben is a member of the South Carolina Bar, Charleston County Bar, and Berkeley County Bar where he served on the board of directors and as president of the young lawyers division. He serves on the board of governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice and is a member of the Injured Workers Advocates.

For three years in a row, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for 2016, 2017 and 2018. He was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2017 and was nominated by The National Trial Lawyers Association as one of the Top 40 Attorneys Under 40 in South Carolina.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we meet attorney Steven

Goldberg. Steven E. Goldberg joined the Steinberg Law Firm in 1993, following his father into a career of law. Steven explains, “Growing up, I was impressed to see my father working hard and the clients being truly thankful for that hard work.” Steven earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

While practicing law for over 25 years, Steven has represented clients with on the job injuries and automobile wrecks. He has had successful trial appearances as well as settlements totaling over several million dollars. Over the past several years, Steven has increased his practice to represent families of those who have had loved ones injured or killed in nursing homes because of neglect.

Malcolm M. Crosland, Jr.

In this episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we talk to attorney Malcolm M. Crosland.

Malcolm Crosland grew up in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a few blocks from Charleston’s harbor. Born to a family of attorneys, he graduated from the University of South Carolina for both his under graduate degrees as well as the University’s School of Law. In 1986 and immediately joined the Steinberg Law Firm.

Malcolm was drawn to the firm’s reputation for representing working people and protecting injured people and their families. He represents clients in both state and federal courts, the S.C Worker’s Compensation Commission and the U.S Department of Labor. He meets his clients to help them fight for their rights all throughout the lowcountry area. In addition to litigating for people injured by the negligence of others, Crosland represents working men and women before the SC Workers Compensation Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor. Malcolm is responsible for numerous published appellate decisions in both State and Federal courts. He has also served on a number of charitable boards and law-related committees, including the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina, Lowcountry Aids Servers and most recently, The Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic.

J. Kevin Holmes

In the first episode of Standing Up for South Carolina, we hear from attorney K. Kevin Holmes.

He moved to Columbia in 1975 right after he graduated from Rutgers University School of Law. When he passed the South Carolina bar exam, he took a job working with then Senator Isadore E. Lourie, the Speaker Pro Tem of the South Carolina Senate and champion of the rights of working men and women of our State. It was during his time with Senator Lourie that he won the landmark case of Marquard v. Columbia Pacific Mills which was the first time a cotton mill worker was awarded death benefits for the lung disease called byssinosis or brown lung. The case broke the stranglehold the political Medical Panel had on denying benefits to mill workers and made it easier for all workers to receive workers’ compensation benefits for occupational diseases.

Kevin moved to Charleston and joined the Steinberg Law Firm, in 1979 where he has practiced ever since. He became a partner in the firm in 1985. He says, “I choose to come work for the Steinberg Law Firm because its founder, Irving Steinberg, was also recognized as being a champion for the rights of working men and women. Irving Steinberg helped write South Carolina’s first workers’ compensation statute and get it passed into law by the Legislature in 1936.”