James Bernard Hood - Charleston, SC

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina, 2002
    J.D.
    Honors: Member, John Belton O'Neall Inn of Court
    Law Journal: South Carolina Environmental Law Journal
  • Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003
    LL.M.
    Honors: Recipient, Edward A. Dodd, Jr. Award
    Major: Admiralty

• Non Legal Education

  • Woodberry Forest School, 1995
  • The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1999
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Pro Bono Activities

• Widows and Orphans Society of the Charleston Medical Society
• Propeller Club
• Huguenot Society of South Carolina
• St. Andrew’s Society
• Hibernian Society

Bar Admissions

• South Carolina, 2003
• U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 2003

Other Affiliations

• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorney's Association (Member)
• Charleston County Association (Member)
• South Carolina Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• Defense Research Institute
• Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
• Network of Trial Law Firms