Attorney Graham Buckner’s practice is primarily focused on helping injured workers as well as criminal defense. If you have been injured at work, Graham has extensive experience in the area of workers’ compensation having practiced before the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission for years. He knows what needs to be done to get the medical care benefits as well as weekly checks and permanent disability benefits. Graham also was a state prosecutor for the 13th Judicial Circuit, Pickens, South Carolina. This gives him unique experience and insight in representing criminal defendants. He handles cases in Easley Municipal Court, Pickens County Magistrates Court, as well as Greenville, Anderson and Pickens State Court. Graham lives in Greenville with his wife, Anne Green, and his three children, Graham Jr., James, and Virginia. He is an active member of Christ Church Episcopal where he serves as an usher. When he is not working, Graham enjoys spending time with his family, hunting, playing golf and basketball, and attending Clemson football games.

James Craven proudly serves Greenville, South Carolina and the neighboring communities in the areas of criminal defense, divorce & family, lawsuit & dispute, intellectual property, and business law.

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.

Chad Propst has successfully represented numerous clients charged with an array of offenses, including driving under the influence, drug charges, domestic violence, criminal sexual conduct, murder, and everything in between. Throughout his career practicing criminal defense, Chad has developed a strong recognition for the fact that when a person is facing criminal charges, however serious, their family, children, and friends are affected too. At stake is a person’s liberty, as well as their personal and professional reputations. No one should face the stress and burdens of criminal charges alone. Chad understands that an experienced criminal defense attorney is essential to providing aggressive and zealous representation from the beginning of an investigation to ensure that his client’s liberties are fully protected and the very best outcome is able to be achieved. Chad is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the Greenville County Bar, the Greenville Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Having been raised in the Upstate of South Carolina, Chad is proud to have called Greenville home for the majority of his life. After graduating from Greenville High School, Chad attended Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in political science and history. Chad then attended The Charleston School of Law and graduated Cum Laude with Honors. While in law school, Chad competed in Moot Court, was a member of the Federal Courts Law Review, and was an articles editor for MALABU, the Maritime Law Bulletin. During law school, Chad received CALI awards, given to the student who achieves the highest grade in their class, in Legal Writing and Research, Historic Preservation Law, and Criminal Law. While in law school, worked with the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense in the Division of Capital Defenders. This division of lawyers focuses solely on advocating for and defending those people facing the potential of the death penalty. The time spent in this role is what sparked Chad’s desire to focus his career in criminal defense. After graduating from law school, Chad joined the 13th Circuit Public Defender’s Office as an Assistant Public Defender in the Greenville Office where he continued to work until ultimately being promoted to Deputy Public Defender of the Pickens County Public Defender’s Office. When he is not working, Chad can be found spending time with his wife and two young children, enjoying the outdoors, attempting to master the intricacies of cooking good barbeque, or passionately rooting for the Atlanta Braves.

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.

Attorney W. Chris Castro is a solo practitioner and the founder of the Castro Law Firm, LLC located in Greenville, South Carolina. His practice primarily focuses on the areas of Criminal Law, Civil Law, Family Law, and Veterans Disability Law. Mr. Castro also practices Appellate Court work and has argued appeals at the South Carolina Court of Appeals. Mr. Castro can assist prospective clients in most upstate South Carolina counties to include Greenville County, Pickens County, Spartanburg County, and Anderson County. Mr. Castro graduated from Clemson University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. After practicing public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Castro returned to Clemson University where he earned a Master’s Degree in Professional Accountancy in 1990. In 1992 Chris became licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in South Carolina. Chris practiced public accounting for the firms of Ernst & Young, and KPMG Peat Marwick, before going on to work in private industry for several years. In 2003 Chris attended law school at the University of Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio where he graduated with honors, Cum Laude, in 2006. While in law school Chris worked in the Law Clinic where he represented indigent clients in the Montgomery County criminal courts. During his tenure at the University of Dayton School of Law Chris earned the CALI award for academic excellence in both the Professional Responsibility (Ethics) course and the Student Law Clinic course. Chris enlisted in the South Carolina Army National Guard in 1988 and went on to attend and graduate from the Palmetto Military Academy Officer Candidate School. He was subsequently commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the South Carolina Army National Guard. Chris currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the North Carolina Army National Guard. During his twenty-eight years in the military Chris has served three active duty deployments with the United States Army. Two of these deployments were to the combat zones of Kuwait and Afghanistan. Chris was most recently deployed from 2015-2016 to Kosovo, a former province of the Republic of Yugoslavia. Chris continues to serve today as a Lieutenant Colonel in the North Carolina National Guard. After law school Chris practiced law in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for several years. He served as a contract public defender for two years representing clients in the Georgetown County Court of General Sessions. While living in Myrtle Beach Chris practiced law in Horry and Georgetown Counties in the areas of Criminal Law, Civil Law, Family Law, and Veterans Disability Law.