A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Mr. Haskins graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Political Science and interned with the South Carolina House of Representatives, the South Carolina Senate, and worked as a Special Assistant in the Public Affairs Division for the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General. Mr. Haskins then attended Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. At Florida Coastal, he was Parliamentarian of the Student Bar Association Legislature and Chief Justice of the Honor Court. Having graduated Florida Coastal in two and one-half years, Mr. Haskins passed the Alaska Bar Examination and became a Member of the Alaska Bar Association. After Florida Coastal, he attended American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where he obtained his Master of Law (LL.M.) degree in Law & Government, specializing in Law, Politics, and Legislation, with a concentration on Civil & Constitutional Rights. While at American, he interned in the United States Senate and was a Legal Fellow for United States Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Mr. Haskins also helped found the Alaska Bar Association Federal Regulatory Practice Section in Washington, D.C. Returning to South Carolina, Mr. Haskins passed the South Carolina Bar Examination and became a Member of the South Carolina Bar. Mr. Haskins worked in firms in Greenville and Charleston, gaining valuable experience in handling family law, estate planning, and real estate legal issues. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Haskins is a Realtor, Notary Public in South Carolina, and President of the Charleston Chapter of the University of South Carolina Alumni Association.

Robert H. Cooper, Esquire, is the owner of The Cooper Law Firm and has practiced bankruptcy law almost exclusively since 1990. Mr. Cooper practices in all areas of bankruptcy law, with a focus on consumer and business cases. "Bob" Cooper, as he is known by all, received his law degree (Juris Doctorate) from The University of South Carolina. He has been a member of the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association since its inception in 1990. He has served on its Board of Directors since 1999. Additionally, he is a past member of The South Carolina Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee, and has served as its chairman, as well. He has been appointed by the court to serve on committees that have shaped bankruptcy policies within the state of South Carolina and has served as Vice Chairman and co-chairman of the Annual Seminar Planning Committee of the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association. Mr. Cooper has represented thousands of bankruptcy clients and is well known throughout the state of South Carolina as a competent and experienced attorney in both consumer and business bankruptcy cases. He has litigated difficult issues, some of which had never before been litigated on behalf of debtors in this state and has set new law regarding certain of these legal issues. Mr. Cooper has been invited on numerous occasions to speak on the subject of bankruptcy law and frequently does so at Bankruptcy Seminars.

I worked for insurance companies for 15 years. In 2015 I decided to put that experience to work representing injured people. I finally have joy in my work and look forward to coming to work every day to help people. We treat our clients like family and we would be honored to represent you too. Call us today for a free consultation to see if we are the right fit for you. 864-326-3333

Attorney Andrew C. Barr’s practice areas include personal injury, workers’ compensation, and product liability. Andrew graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law and has been practicing law since 1989. He has represented persons in all courts including family court, circuit court, magistrates court, property damage arbitration, mediation, federal court, the SC Court of Appeals and the SC Supreme Court. Andrew has been practicing law since 1989, when he received his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Andrew has a wife and four kids. He is an avid LSU fan and the entire family enjoys traveling to different sporting events. He and his wife enjoy traveling and spending time on the Florida coast. Andrew was an ardent golfer until his passions turned towards fishing and hunting.

As a young lawyer, Michael spent several years working for two of Atlanta’s premier insurance defense firms. He represented locally and nationally-known trucking companies, automobile insurers, and premises liability insurers in defense of lawsuits filed by accident victims. When Mike made a career move to the plaintiff’s side, his tenure in the large law firm environment and representation of prominent insurance companies provided Mike the experience necessary to obtain hundreds of favorable settlements and verdicts for his personal injury clients. After a decade of practicing law in Atlanta, Michael and his wife Bren decided it was time to move back to Bren’s hometown of Greenville, SC so they could help accident victims in the Upstate area and be a part of a beautiful, growing city. Michael’s experience in Atlanta’s fast-paced environment gives him a big advantage, as he has seen every type of injury and fact pattern and knows how to maximize the value of every case. His verdicts and settlements confirm his ability to get the most out of your personal injury case. Michael Melonakos was born in Monroe, Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University, where he majored in finance and international business and was the president of his fraternity. After graduation, Mike headed down to the University of Georgia for law school, and he’s been in the South ever since. While at UGA Law, Mike served as a notes editor for the Journal of Intellectual Property, was a teacher’s assistant to first-year law students in Contracts, and co-founded the Business Law Society. He credits his work ethic and compassion for our clients to his father and grandparents. When not working for his personal injury clients, Michael volunteers for the Greenville Bar Association. He regularly volunteers at his children’s schools and attends St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral. The Melonakos Law Firm is a proud sponsor of St. George’s annual Greek Festival here in Greenville, South Carolina. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar, and playing golf.

Blake Smith has been representing plaintiffs in medical negligence and other personal injury cases for over 15 years. He is the managing partner of Parham Smith and Archenhold, LLC, formerly Parham and Smith, which is based in Greenville, South Carolina but handles cases all over the state of South Carolina. Blake’s firm has been listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers and Blake has been AV rated, the highest rating possible, given by his peers and in both legal ability and ethics. He has been named to South Carolina’s Super Lawyers, an award bestowed upon 2% of lawyers in the State, based upon their performance in the practice of law. While maintaining a busy and continually growing practice, Blake also serves upon the Advisory Board for the Paralegal Program at Greenville Technical College. He recently completed his 10th year as an adjunct pro bono professor at Clemson University where he teaches Sports Law.

Patrick was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is a partner at the law firm of Anderson & Moore. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina. Following college, Patrick worked in the real estate, advertising, and marketing fields before starting law school at the Charleston School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor. After sitting for the bar exam he moved back home to Spartanburg to begin a Judicial Clerkship with Seventh Judicial Circuit Court Judge J. Mark Hayes. Upon completing his Judicial Clerkship for Judge Hayes, Patrick began work as an Assistant Solicitor for former Seventh Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy. Patrick’s initial case load focused on General Crimes, with cases ranging broadly from forgery and property crimes to Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill. Following the General Crimes case load, Patrick became the DUI prosecutor for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. He was the DUI prosecutor for 3 years, and was responsible for both Magistrate level and Circuit Court level DUI charges. His case load ranged from DUI and Felony DUI to Failure to Stop for Blue Light and Habitual Traffic Offender. Patrick left the Solicitors Office in 2011 to go into private practice. He devotes the majority of his practice to defending clients charged with DUI, Felony DUI, Drug charges, and all criminal offenses, as well as representing clients on divorce and custody matters. Patrick’s lifetime ties to Spartanburg have given him extensive knowledge of the community and its people, and that lends itself well to representing his clients’ interests successfully. Patrick knows the area because he has lived there all his life. Patrick prides himself on being available whenever his clients need him. He strives to ensure his clients get the best results and is there to guide them through every step of the process.

Thanks for learning a little more about me! I spent most of my childhood in and around where my parents grew up, Augusta, Georgia. I started school in a tiny nearby town called Wrens. It was like the small towns you hear stories about- everyone knew everyone and people didn’t lock their doors at night, some when they went on vacation! I went to school with the same 25-35 folks my whole life, until we moved. Our town was so small, we had no junior high. In 7th grade, you went to high school. On weekends and in the summer, I’d leave home around 10 am to join friends for the adventure of the day, check in for lunch, and come home when the sun went down. We played a lotta baseball and football. This is where I tell you about the pinnacle of my athletic career. I was a three-year starter for WPEH Radio, aka the Mean Green Machine, for the color of our jerseys, who achieved unparalleled dominance in the Wrens Dixie Youth Baseball League from 1982-86, winning three league championships. My last year, I pitched. But don’t think this is another lawyer starting the chest-thumping. My pitching career ended in humiliation, at an all-star tournament in Swainsboro, where the home team unceremoniously shelled me in a 16-1 loss. Let me assure you, whoever said there’s no crying in baseball never, ever played the game. I still remember standing alone on the mound, looking at that scoreboard and that massive 16 runs, tears streaming down my face. But life moved on, and so did we. In ninth grade, Dad took a job in Charlotte, so we moved to Rock Hill, where I graduated from Northwestern High in 1992 and did not make the baseball team. It was a dramatic departure from Wrens- Northwestern had almost as many students as Wrens had people! But I made good friends, and I’m thankful for the educational opportunities that came my way. For college, I shocked all my family and friends by not attending the University of Georgia. It’s my family’s school, as UGA claims as alums my father, grandmother, great uncle, and many others stretching back a long, long time. But I knew myself, and I knew UGA wasn’t the best place for me: I don’t thrive in large environments. So I made my best first decision for me: I headed to Spartanburg to go to Wofford. My Wofford experience and the lifelong friendships I developed from it molded me to be a better man. I graduated in 1996. I worked in Spartanburg for a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch for a year, long enough to figure out that wasn’t for me. But the law was. I graduated from law school at the University of South Carolina in 2000. Shortly before that, at a pledge brother’s wedding in Spartanburg, the single most important encounter of my life occurred. A close friend of the bride turned my head, and I never looked back. Her name’s Amy. I call her Mamie. We married in 2002. On meeting her, my great uncle turned to me and said, “How’d you do that?” A close friend’s father perfectly summed up my spectacular luck: “Sometimes even a blind hog finds an acorn.” [I must add, Mamie’s no acorn, she’s pure gold]. Here’s how my legal career started. After law school, I worked as a law clerk for State Circuit Court Judge Rodney Peeples in Barnwell, helping him research legal issues to decide cases and manage his caseload. He held court mostly in Aiken, Bamberg, and Barnwell. After a year there, I returned to the Upstate in 2001 to practice law in Easley. In 2005, I joined this firm. I’m grateful to practice law here. I’m most thankful to be part of the Spartanburg community, where we raise our four children. Yep, that’s a lot. We like to joke that God’s got more confidence in us than we do. Here’s our lineup: Addie [I call her Bunny] born 2007, Jack born 2009, and [here’s where Divine Confidence really comes in] our twins Luke and Sally [I call her Sweet Pea] born 2013, collectively called the Deuce. We belong to First Presbyterian Church here in town, where I’ve served twice as a deacon. Over the years, I’ve also served Spartanburg on the boards of the local Red Cross and TOTAL Ministries, a mission funded by local churches to feed, clothe, and support the less fortunate. In 2018, I got appointed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to serve on the Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center Board. I got named board chairman in 2022. As we know from far too many recent tragic events, crumbing mental health is a looming problem in our world. Way too many people suffer untold agony in silence, and I’m hoping to use this position to help folks confronting mental illness. To me, these illnesses are no different than the common cold- you can’t help you got it, but it can often be helped before it gets dangerously worse. I’m honored to be asked to help some folks in our community who are in bad pain and desperate need of help. I’ve been honored to be an elected leader within the legal profession as a two-term member of the board of directors for the state criminal defense lawyers association and chairman of the personal injury and insurance committee of the South Carolina Bar. For my entire legal career, starting in 2001, I’ve worked to help people who got hurt from others’ carelessness or on the job, and defend people accused of crime, including DUI. I’ve tried numerous cases to a jury verdict, from car accidents to residential construction to assault and battery with intent to kill, and DUIs. I’ve also tried several workers’ compensation hearings. The best thing about being a lawyer is that I get to be a voice for folks who might not otherwise have one. I am very proud of the people I help and the causes I represent.

John was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He graduated from Charleston School of Law in 2007. After graduating from law school, John went to work in private practice. John spent the first five years of his legal career handling litigation in family, criminal, and personal injury matters. In 2012, John joined this firm, where his practice is devoted to family law and injury cases. He and his wife, Reagan, are residents of Spartanburg, and he is grateful to be a part of the Spartanburg legal community. John attends church at the Episcopal Church of the Advent. Over the years, John has served on committees for his church as well as boards for local charitable and educational organizations in the area. John works hard to help people when they need legal services. John cares for his clients and tries to give each one the dedicated representation they deserve.

Jeremy Dantin has handled workers’ compensation cases at all levels in the State of South Carolina. He is a member of the Injured Workers Advocates, the premier association for claimant’s attorneys dedicated to protecting and advancing workers’ rights in workers’ compensation cases, where he formerly served on the Executive Committee and currently serves on the Legislative Committee. Jeremy speaks at seminars on issues regarding workers’ compensation and is highly experienced in handling job injury claim attorney. He also handles appellate matters, arguing cases before the Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court. Additionally, Jeremy has handling nursing home litigation and other liability matters. Since 2013, Jeremy has held an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest peer rating standard given to attorneys who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal proficiency, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers. Additionally, since 2020, Jeremy has been selected as a Super Lawyer, which is an honor given to those who have demonstrated excellence in the practice of law. No more than 5% of the lawyers in South Carolina are included on this list. Jeremy Dantin was also recently selected on the list of the South Carolina Legal Elite. Legal Elite is a regional awards program where attorneys are nominated and chosen by votes of other attorneys. The nominated attorneys are recognized as well respected attorneys in their practice areas. The selected attorney list is featured in the August 2022 issue of Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly, and Charleston Business Magazine. Jeremy Dantin was recently named to the inaugural class of the Stanford E. Lacy American Inn of Court. The American Inns of Court is an association of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals from all levels and backgrounds dedicated to professioand excellence. The Stanford E. Lacy American Inn of Court is the only Workers’ Compensation Inn of Court in South Carolina and one of just nine nationwide. Jeremy joins the Inn as a Master of the Bench. Masters of the Bench are generally appellate and trial judges and experienced trial and appellate attorneys of demonstrated superior character, ability, and litigating competence. Masters have at least 15 or more years of legal experience.Jeremy holds two B.A. degrees – one in English from Vanderbilt University in 1994 and another in Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1995. He earned his J.D. from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law in 1999. He then spent a year clerking for Georgia Superior Court Judge C. Michael Roach before taking a job with an Atlanta firm that did primarily insurance-defense work, concentrating his practice there on cases involving products liability, nursing-home defense, construction, and well as mass-tort litigation. Jeremy and his wife, Suzanne, both grew up in the Spartanburg area and wanted to move home to raise their kids. In 2002, he returned to South Carolina and began working with a prestigious Greenville-based defense firm, before coming to work here in 2005. From the beginning, Jeremy’s expertise as an insurance-defense lawyer proved beneficial in crossing over to represent plaintiffs. “Having a background as a law clerk and defense attorney is really useful in trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of any given set of facts,” he says. “I believe assessing a case from both perspectives is crucial to success.” While his appellate work has provided him with several personal highlights, Jeremy maintains there is no bigger thrill than helping a deserving client. “There is something profoundly satisfying about standing with a person who truly needs your help and delivering results in their time of need. There are lawyers that can go through their entire careers and never know that satisfaction, and we at this firm are blessed to be in a position to really make a difference.” Outside of work, Jeremy loves sports – especially football, baseball, and basketball. Jeremy and Suzanne have three sons and a daughter. Jeremy loves to hunt and fish, which he tries to do as often as he can. He and his wife are active members of their church, and enjoy spending as much time as possible with their family and friends.