Sloan Ellis spent close to ten years as a state and federal prosecutor. His public service began at the 13th Circuit Solicitor's Office in Greenville, where he handled thousands of state cases, including burglary, armed robbery, drug charges and fraud. Most of the cases he worked on involved people who had never sat in a courtroom before. Early in his career, he learned that the file in front of a prosecutor almost never contains the part of the story that matters most. He then spent several years on the defense side, first in Charleston with former U.S. Attorney E. Bart Daniel, where he was part of the trial team in what has been called the largest and most complex white collar investigation in South Carolina history. In his next role at Nexsen Pruet, he worked directly for William W. Wilkins, former Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and Chair of the Federal Sentencing Commission. He also argued appeals before the Fourth Circuit, the South Carolina Supreme Court, and the South Carolina Court of Appeals. As a federal prosecutor, Sloan worked with the FBI, DEA, IRS, Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, SLED, and the South Carolina Department of Revenue on violent crimes, drug offenses, and financial crimes. With Brandi Hinton, he prosecuted the fiftieth person in the country charged with fraud connected to the Paycheck Protection Program.

Anthony McCollum has spent nearly eight years prosecuting criminal cases for the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office. As an Assistant Solicitor there, he handled thousands of cases, ranging from property crimes to white collar crimes, taking several of them to verdict. His career inside the solicitor's office started in 2012. Shortly after graduating from The Citadel, he joined the Fifth Circuit Solicitor's Office in Columbia, first as an intern and then as a law clerk, where he worked while attending law school at the University of South Carolina. By the time he was licensed to practice, he had already spent more than five years watching the state build criminal cases and learning how things were run behind the scenes. He moved to the Upstate in 2018 and, after a short period in private practice in Greenville, joined the Thirteenth Circuit in January 2019. Anthony comes to Ironside Criminal Defense having seen firsthand how the government and the judicial system operate. He knows the prosecutors, the investigators, and the officers who work the other side of a file, and he knows exactly how a case looks to the person deciding what to do with it. What he cares about most is what comes next for the client: understanding the charge, understanding the options, and having someone to speak for them while they work through it.

Brandi Hinton's first experience arguing cases took place before she even had a license to practice, when she participated on the Moot Court Board and Student Trial Lawyers Association at Charleston School of Law. She began her career clerking for the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough in Charleston County at the height of the foreclosure crisis, on a docket full of people facing the worst financial stretch of their lives. She then spent eight years at the 13th Circuit Solicitor's Office in Greenville and Pickens counties, where she handled thousands of cases and tried more than 25 of them, including armed robbery, burglary, domestic violence, drug trafficking, bank robbery, and fraud. Brandi later served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina alongside her partner, Sloan Ellis. She was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, where she prosecuted large-scale drug trafficking. She also handled racketeering cases, known as RICO, along with the violent crimes charged alongside them, and complex financial cases including wire fraud, money laundering, and Paycheck Protection Program fraud. She was one of the prosecutors on the largest federal racketeering conspiracy in South Carolina history, and she received the 2021 U.S. Attorney's Award for excellence in prosecution. She has worked alongside Sloan Ellis at nearly every stage of her career, and she knows exactly how to prepare a case for trial. Having tried cases from the other side, she also knows which ones a prosecutor is ready to put in front of a jury and which ones they would rather resolve. This is how she approaches every case she takes.