Shareholder Marian Williams Scalise is a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, a national organization comprised of leading trial advocates in the area of professional negligence law.  It is the only organization accredited by the American Bar Association to identify and board certify attorneys in the areas of medical malpractice and legal malpractice.

Shareholder C. Jo Anne Wessinger Hill served as assistant legal counsel to former South Carolina Governor Carroll A. Campbell, as well as on former South Carolina Governor David M. Beasley's Ad Hoc Committee on Health Care.

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Office
2103 Farlow Street
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577

P.O. Box 3646
Myrtle Beach, 29578

Contact Details
Direct: 843.448.1008 (ext. 306)
Toll free: 800.398.7007
Fax: 843.448.1533
Email: dbaxter@richardsonplowden.com

Practice Areas
Construction Law
Governmental Liability Defense
Insurance Defense
Legal Malpractice Defense
Products Liability
Homeowners Association Disputes

Education
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (B.A., cum laude, 1982)
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia (J.D., 1985)

UC Foundation Merit Scholarship

Bar Admissions
1985, Georgia
1986, South Carolina
U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Other Professional
House of Delegates (1992-1994), South Carolina Bar
Secretary (1994), President-Elect (1995), President (1996), Horry County Bar Association
South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association
State Bar of Georgia
Certified Mediator by the South Carolina Supreme Court

Douglas C. Baxter is a shareholder of Richardson Plowden in the Myrtle Beach office. He focuses his practice on litigation defense, insurance, governmental liability defense, legal malpractice defense, products liability and premise liability. Mr. Baxter has tried a number of jury and non-jury cases in South Carolina courts and the United States District Courts; however, he primarily handles cases in the Pee Dee and coastal areas of South Carolina. Mr. Baxter has tried a wide variety of cases to verdict, including products liability, wrongful death, premise liability, automobile accidents, police arrests, commercial disputes, construction and slander/libel. Mr. Baxter has been involved in various other aspects of litigation defense including directing the investigation within hours of an incident occurring and alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation).

Mr. Baxter graduated cum laude from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1982. He earned his juris doctor in 1985 from the University of Georgia in Athens.

He is active in the Horry County Bar Association, having served as president in 1996. He also served in the South Carolina Bar’s House of Representatives from 1992 until 1994. Mr. Baxter is married and has two children. He is active in his church and community.