Formerly of West Virginia, graduated with BA Degree from Marshall University in 1982 and Capital University Law School in 1985. He was admitted to both the South Carolina Bar and United States District Court in 1986. He has practiced law in the Horry County Area since 1986. Randy is a member of the Horry County Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, and the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is certified as an arbitrator, as well as a certified Family/Divorce Mediator and Certified Guardian Ad Litem with the South Carolina Council for Conflict Resolutions. He is also certified to serve as counsel on death penalty cases. He is licensed in Federal District Court for South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit of Appeals. He is active in the local community with the Coast of Carolina Parrothead Club.

Mark Nappier has been practicing in the field of civil litigation since 1991. He is licensed to practice law in South Carolina and North Carolina and has concentrated his practice in the area of personal injury, to include automobile accidents, motorcycle accidents, and wrongful death. In addition to his personal injury work, Mr. Nappier also does significant trial work in the areas of contract law, real estate litigation, and collections. Mr. Nappier also represents numerous Homeowners Associations in South and North Carolina. In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Nappier is also licensed by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a Mediator.

With over two decades of experience, Stacy L. Stanley of Stanley Personal Injury Lawyers is a respected and aggressive North Myrtle Beach personal injury lawyer who has dedicated his career to fighting for the rights of the injured. Stacy has secured multiple six- and seven-figure verdicts and settlements, including cases worth $6.2 million, $5.2 million, $3.8 million, and more—delivering real results for clients when it matters most. Stacy represents clients throughout North Myrtle Beach (NMB), Little River, Aynor, and surrounding South Carolina communities. Raised in Loris, SC, he brings a small-town work ethic and deep local roots to every case, drawing on values of hard work, discipline, and perseverance learned in his family’s business. At Stanley Personal Injury Lawyers, Stacy handles a wide range of personal injury cases, including: Car accidents Slip and falls Wrongful death Workers’ compensation Boating and jet ski accidents Bicycle accidents Defective and dangerous products And more Known for his trusted, aggressive representation, Stacy is committed to maximizing his clients’ financial recovery and holding negligent parties accountable. If you or a loved one has been injured due to someone else’s negligence in North Myrtle Beach, Little River, Aynor, or nearby—don’t wait. Contact Stacy L. Stanley at Stanley Personal Injury Lawyers today for a free consultation and start fighting for the justice and compensation you deserve.

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.

Joseph Weston has been in practice for 40 years. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator in South Carolina, and utilizes his many years of litigation experience to help parties successfully resolve their cases through mediation. He has handled thousands of contested cases in a wide variety of practice areas, and has tried over 250 jury trials to verdict in the State and Federal Courts of South Carolina. Mr. Weston has been peer-rated AV Preeminent (highest possible rating) through Martindale Hubbell ®, and he has been listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers ® since 2020. Mr. Weston received his B.A. degree cum laude from Temple University in 1983, and graduated from Rutgers University School of Law in 1986. He has been a frequent lecturer on personal injury and insurance topics, and co-authored An Analysis of Current Theories of Liability, published by the South Carolina Law Review (1994). He also teaches undergraduate business law and graduate level corporate governance classes as an Adjunct Instructor at the College of Charleston.

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.

Julie Craig is a Member of Weston Craig Anthony. Prior to joining the firm, Julie served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable R. Markley Dennis, Jr. Julie received her law degree from the Charleston School of Law in 2011, and her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina in 2008. While in law school, Julie served on the Editorial Board for the Charleston Law Review.

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.

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.

Jennifer Wells is an attorney with over 20 years of experience, having handled criminal cases at all levels in both South and North Carolina. Recognized as a criminal defense court attorney in Spartanburg, SC, Jennifer has also written appellate briefs and argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She frequently teaches at seminars on criminal law across South Carolina, sharing her expertise with other legal professionals. Jennifer graduated from Hollins College in 1996 with a B.A. in English. During her time there, she worked for William W. Wilkins, Jr., then Chief of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She graduated with honors and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In 2001, she earned her law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Jennifer began her legal career under the Honorable Trey Gowdy, then solicitor of the Seventh Judicial District, covering Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. Her career took her to North Carolina, where she served as a state prosecutor before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of North Carolina. As a federal prosecutor, Jennifer handled federal investigations into international drug trafficking organizations and money laundering. Returning to South Carolina in 2016, she worked with Solicitor Barry Barnette, leading a multi-jurisdictional domestic violence initiative and handling federal gun prosecutions as a Special Assistant United States Attorney. Her dedication earned her the prestigious John Justice Community Leadership Award in 2017. Throughout her career, Jennifer Wells has tried hundreds of cases, including those involving federal drug charges, money laundering, murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, domestic violence, child pornography, and DUI. She is skilled in defending criminal charges in Spartanburg and is also recognized as a trusted sexual abuse lawyer in Spartanburg. Jennifer handles cases from speeding tickets to murder and complex federal criminal defense matters. She also handles Title IX investigations and hearings, school disciplinary actions, academic integrity violations at colleges and universities across the Southeast. These types of cases include student code of conduct issues such as physical and sexual assault, hazing, and cheating, amongst others. “Giving people a voice is the most important part of being a lawyer to me,” Jennifer says. “People often feel like they get lost in the legal system. I work hard to make sure our clients have a voice in the process and that that voice is heard.” Raised in the Upstate, Jennifer now balances her work at KD Trial Lawyers Spartanburg SC with family life. She has two children and spends her free time enjoying the outdoors. A passionate hunter and fisher, Jennifer plans much of her time off around these activities. She is also a dedicated runner who completed a half Ironman and a loyal sports fan, cheering on both her children and her beloved college team. Whether you’re seeking an experienced attorney in Spartanburg, SC, or navigating complex legal challenges, Jennifer Wells is a trusted advocate ready to provide representation.