Elizabeth Van Doren Gray

Elizabeth Van Doren Gray

egray@sowellgray.com

Member

Practice Areas
Admissions
South Carolina Bar
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Education

University of South Carolina, B.A., 1970
University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1976
-Order of Wig and Robe
-South Carolina Law Review, Comments Editor

Associations
South Carolina Bar
American Bar Association
Richland County Bar Association
South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
John Belton O'Neall Inn of Court
Defense Research Institute
OFFICES & AWARDS
  • Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, 2005-2010), Commercial Litigation Category;  (2009, 2010), Bet-the-Company Litigation; (2009), Columbia's Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year
  • Chambers U.S.A. America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2007-2009)
  • Member, United States Magistrate Merit Selection Panel, 2008
  • Chair, United States Magistrate Merit Selection Panel, 2009
  • Past President of the South Carolina Bar
  • Permanent Member, Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
  • Former Appointed Attorney to Assist the Disciplinary Counsel for the Supreme Court of South Carolina
  • Former Chair, Statewide and Regional Citizens Advisory Committee of the Judicial Merit Selection Commission
  • Member, Chief Justice's Commission on the Profession
  • Member, Chief Justice's Commission on Lawyer Advertising
  • Compleat Lawyer Award Gold Medallion, USC Law School Alumni Association, 1997
  • South Carolina Women Lawyers Association Jean Galloway Bissell Award, 2000
  • Selected for the inaugural list of South Carolina "Super Lawyers" top 25 List and for Business Litigation (2008)
  • Selected for the South Carolina "Super Lawyers" top 10 List and in Business Litigation (2009)
  • Benchmark Litigation, Local Litigation Star (2009, 2010) 
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Who Can Stay and Who Must Go:  The Tension Between Witness Sequestration and the Right of Crime Victims to Be Present,"  21 S.C. Law. 38 (Mar. 2010)
COMMUNITY INVOVEMENT
  • Board Member, USC Educational Foundation