Josh Cantwell's practice involves several areas of civil litigation including handling personal injury claims, construction litigation, community association law, insurance bad faith litigation, product liability, commercial disputes, environmental litigation, and maritime cases. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Josh was selected as a member of the S.C. Bar’s Leadership Academy Class of 2011. While in law school, he served as a judicial extern for the Honorable David C. Norton, U.S. District Judge for the District of South Carolina. In 2018, he was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Becoming a trial lawyer was inevitable for Bennett J. Schiller, III. He was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1968 the son of Bennett and Marie Schiller. Never having much in the material sense but having parents who put others first, taught Mr. Schiller to have compassion for others. When his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina for his father to attend Columbia Bible College times got even tougher. His dad went to school by day and worked in the cotton mill at night. This impressed upon Mr. Schiller at an early age that nothing replaces hard work and preparation. After graduating from Lexington High School as the Senior Class President, Mr. Schiller earned a full four year Citadel Scholars Scholarship for academics to The Citadel. While there, Mr. Schiller excelled both in the classroom and in public service to his school and community. He served as the President of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity. He also was President of the College Republicans. Mr. Schiller earned many awards including Presidents List, Dean’s List, National Merit Scholars, and National Beta Club awards. He was a member of The Citadel Inn of Court and a member of The 1990 Summerall Guards. He earned a BA in Political Science in 1990 from The Citadel. Before attending law school, Mr. Schiller worked as an office services assistant at McNair Law Firm in Columbia, South Carolina. That is where he met his wife, Karoline Higgins Schiller. Today, they have four beautiful, healthy children. During his time in law school at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Mr. Schiller worked for a successful personal injury firm Lee, Eadon, Isgett and Popwell. It is there that Mr. Schiller developed the passion for serving injured families. While in law school Mr. Schiller served his fellow students and the student Senator to the University of South Carolina’s Student Senate. He also was the President of Phi Delta Phi, The Federalist Society and the Law Republicans. Mr. Schiller enjoyed volunteering at many local charities and organizations including the Oliver Gospel Mission and Harvest Hope Food Bank. After graduating from USC School of Law in 1994, Mr. Schiller went to work for a local personal injury firm in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He quickly realized the need to be on his own and co-founded the firm Atwater, Schiller and Reeves. During this time Mr. Schiller grew his practice to include Lancaster, Chester, York and Columbia, SC. Mr. Schiller was elected to serve the 16th Circuit as the Circuit Representative on the Young Lawyers Division of the South Carolina Bar Association. Continuing his public service, Mr. Schiller served on the Board of Directors for the Upper Palmetto YMCA. He and his wife have served on committee for Young Life of York County. Mr. Schiller is also a recent past President of his Home Owners Association. Recently Mr. Schiller moved his family to Beaufort to get back to his roots. He opened the Beaufort Office in November of 2011 and has grown steadily. He jumped right into serving the community. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Beaufort. He is a member of the Leadership Beaufort Class of 2014. Mr. Schiller currently represents many locals and looks forward to many years of service to the Low Country. Fighting for others and standing up for the rights of individuals no matter how difficult the circumstances are is what Bennett J. Schiller, III stands for. He has built his firm Schiller & Hamilton to do just that. At Schiller & Hamilton, LLC we take seriously our obligation to serve others and Mr. Schiller sets the example.

Attorney Lucas grew up in the small town of Great Falls in upstate South Carolina. Following high school, he attended Coastal Carolina University (CCU) in Conway, South Carolina and graduated in 2010 with a bachelor of arts in Political Science and a minor in pre-law. Following graduation from CCU, he accepted a position at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Shortly thereafter, he was accepted into and began the study of law at the Charleston School of Law, all in an effort to pursue his life-long dream—to practice law in South Carolina. ​ After passing the 2014 South Carolina Bar Exam and moving back to Myrtle Beach, Attorney Lucas had the pleasure of working for several very successful law firms in Horry County. In his time with those firms, he worked cases in many areas of criminal defense, family law, and personal injury law. Specifically, he has defended countless persons accused of all types of crimes during which he tried—and won—their criminal cases; he has handled all types of cases in Family Court; he has negotiated with insurance adjusters and drafted insurance demand packets (some amounting in the millions of dollars) in many personal injury matters. In January 2017, Attorney Lucas felt that it was finally time to take his practice to the next level and opened Lucas Law, LLC right here in Myrtle Beach. If you have been charged with a crime in South Carolina or if you feel that you are being investigated for a crime; or if you have been the victim of any type of personal injury matter such as a car accident, a slip and fall, or being the victim of a crime, do not hesitate to give Lucas Law, LLC a call at 803-374-0389 and Attorney Lucas will do everything in his power to give you the representation and get you the compensation that you deserve. ​ Additionally, feel free to click on the tab(s) at the top of the page that correspond with the service that you require. Hopefully, the content found there will give you a better understanding of what your next steps should be and how Lucas Law, LLC can assist you in resolving the matter.

Joshua P. Stokes is committed to providing his clients with the highest quality of legal services available in the Lowcountry and South Carolina as a whole. Mr. Stokes graduated from Presbyterian College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a minor in Computer Science. He was a member of the Charleston School of Law’s inaugural class earning his Juris Doctor in May 2007. Mr. Stokes was admitted to the South Carolina Bar at the end of 2007, and began his legal career as an attorney at the Law Offices of Paul E. Tinkler located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina in December 2007. In June 2010, Mr. Stokes opened the Law Office of Joshua P. Stokes, LLC. In September 2011, Mr. Stokes and Peter M. McCoy, Jr. merged their individual practices to form McCoy & Stokes, LLC. Upon Mr. McCoy’s appointment as the U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, McCoy & Stokes was dissolved and Mr. Stokes opened Stokes Legal, LLC which is located on James Island, South Carolina but represents clients throughout the Lowcountry. Mr. Stokes is admitted to practice in all state courts in South Carolina and the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. He is a member of the American Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, and Charleston County Bar Association. Since his admission to the South Carolina Bar in 2007, Mr. Stokes has practiced extensively in the state courts of South Carolina from municipal courts and circuit courts across the state to the South Carolina Court of Appeals as well as the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Mr. Stokes is originally from Anderson, South Carolina, but he has lived in Charleston since 2004. He and his wife, Robyn, reside on James Island with their five children.

Roger Dixon is the founder and managing attorney of Dixon Law Firm, LLC. His practice includes family law, criminal defense, general civil litigation, school law, and probate. After a distinguished career in public education teaching English and journalism, Roger Dixon entered the Charleston School of Law in 2006. While in law school Roger served two externships as a law clerk with the Charleston and Colleton County Public Defender’s Offices, where he gained valuable experience in criminal law and criminal trial practice. Roger also won the law school’s Cali Award for Excellence in Domestic Relations, became trained as a volunteer Guardian ad Litem, and was awarded the Charleston School of Law Pro Bono Award for his dedication to public service. With 15 years of experience in the field of public education, Roger is particularly skilled in representing clients in dispute with public schools, especially with regard to students with special needs, students charged with crimes in schools, truancy, suspensions, expulsions, and teacher/district relations.

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.

Arthur K. Aiken has been practicing law in South Carolina for 36 years. During that time, Mr. Aiken has tried over 100 cases. These cases have included million dollar personal injury cases and criminal cases in both state and federal courts. In addition to cases at the trial level, Mr. Aiken also handles appeals. In his appellate practice, Mr. Aiken has appeared before the South Carolina Supreme Court, the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Aiken has always endeavored to give his clients high quality representation at a fair price.

Ask J. Taylor Bell what he most enjoys about his criminal defense law practice and his response is unequivocal: “Fighting the power.” “Criminal defense attorneys are the shield that protects the individual from the almighty government machine,” he says. “It doesn’t care about feelings or individual circumstances. It’s a machine, and it wants to roll. If you get caught in it, you just get run over unless you have somebody who’s going to stand up for you.” A North Carolina native who grew up near Charlotte, Bell received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2007. After working in the financial services industry for a year, Bell decided to go to law school after realizing he wanted a direct hand in helping people. Bell has focused on representing criminal defendants ever since his student days at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 2011. During law school, he clerked at the Richland County Public Defender’s office in Columbia and continued to work there as an attorney after earning his law license. He remained at the public defender’s office for six years, handling the full spectrum of criminal defense cases, ranging from the most serious felonies to misdemeanors. He tried numerous jury trials in both general sessions court and magistrates’ court, and was one of the lead defense attorneys in the first human-trafficking case ever brought before the South Carolina Grand Jury. In 2015, Bell received intensive additional training in the art of jury persuasion at the National Criminal Defense College Trial Practice Institute.

Erika Denise Baldwin is a practicing lawyer in South Carolina handling criminal defense matters.

Bill Hopkins was born and raised in Bishopville, South Carolina. He attended North Carolina State University where he received his B.S. degree in Textile Chemistry in 1988. After graduation, Bill worked for nearly three years for Springs Industries, Inc., a large textile company, at a dyeing and finishing plant in Lancaster, South Carolina. Bill was working as a third shift superintendent at the time he was accepted into law school at the University of South Carolina. During law school, Bill served as the Research Editor for the South Carolina Environmental Law Journal. It was also during law school that he began clerking for the law firm of Whaley, McCutchen, Blanton & Rhodes, LLP, one of the oldest and most prestigious litigation firms in South Carolina, which had originally been founded in 1936. Bill continued to work at the firm after graduation and ultimately became a partner in the firm and then was elected Managing Partner in 2005. Bill and the firm were selected by South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster to represent the State of South Carolina in lawsuits brought against several pharmaceutical companies regarding their reporting of false and inflated prices for drugs which resulted in overpayments by the State Medicaid and State Health Plan programs, known as the AWP litigation. Bill remained as the Managing Partner until December 31, 2007 when the firm dissolved after 71 years of continuous practice. Bill founded and started a new law firm called McCutchen Blanton Hopkins & Campbell, LLP, where he continued to practice with Thomas McCutchen and Hoover Blanton, two of the most well known leaders and stewards of the South Carolina Bar. Bill ran this law firm until November 1, 2010, when he joined the national law firm Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles, P.C. in Mongomery, Alabama in the Consumer Fraud section with an emphasis and focus on class action litigation. Bill has been active in various bar associations and organizations, including the South Carolina Bar. At the time he joined Beasley Allen, Bill was serving on the Professional Responsibility Committee and the Conventions Committee of the South Carolina Bar. Bill is currently serving as the Co-Chairman of the Class Action Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. Bill served as the Chairman of the Employment Rights Section of the South Carolina Association for Justice for three years. In 2010 Bill Hopkins was elected to the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), which is a distinct recognition and privilege. ABOTA is a national organization of both plaintiff and defense trial attorneys which is committed to the preservation of trial by jury. To be eligible for consideration, an attorney must have tried at least 20 civil jury trials to jury verdict as lead counsel. Bill has tried over 70 civil cases to jury verdict as sole or lead counsel, in areas such as personal injury, business torts, fraud, products liability, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, insurance matters and employment. Bill has also had an active appellate practice and has argued 8 cases before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, including an en banc argument in the case of Ocheltree v. Scollon Productions, Inc., a seminal case regarding the law of sexual harassment, in which many organizations (including the EEOC) made appearances and submitted amicus briefs, and which case was the subject of numerous articles, including an article in the New York Times. Bill has also argued several cases before the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court. Bill has also developed a successful class action practice, being appointed by several different courts as lead counsel or liaison counsel in many different class action cases.