Halligan Mahoney & Williams, PA

Halligan Mahoney & Williams, P.A., is a mid-sized law firm committed to providing high quality, responsive, and cost-efficient legal services. We proudly serve all of South Carolina from our Columbia office next to the State Capitol and South Carolina Supreme Court, but more frequently may be found at work in communities of every size from the Upstate to the Lowcountry and all points between. We understand that institutions, nonprofits, and businesses face external risks on many fronts. Each also has the challenge of efficiently carrying out its functions and purposes. The lawyers in our firm take pride in helping clients realize their own goals in an increasingly complex legal environment. Our clients are truly clients of the entire firm, ensuring that the right team is always at your service. Each client benefits from the availability of our deep reserve of expertise and experience across many fields of law but without the compartmentalization of a large, sprawling firm. Many of our clients operate under constant public scrutiny and tense political circumstances. Each client benefits from our extraordinary devotion to understanding the client's internal culture and the role the client plays in its community or field of operations. The Rules of Professional Responsibility provide that, "[a]dvice couched in narrow legal terms may be of little value to a client, especially where practical considerations, such as cost or effects on other people, are predominant. Purely technical legal advice, therefore, can sometimes be inadequate." For our clients, purely legal advice is almost always inadequate. We therefore invest in the knowledge, relationships, mutual trust, and shared wisdom, which bring value to the client relationship. While our preference is to quietly facilitate the client's success, we are also prepared for disputes that must be litigated. Our attorneys have successfully handled many of the challenging and important cases decided by the South Carolina courts and the federal courts for South Carolina. All education related litigation affects the client, whether it is an insured claim or not. We understand the link between even a nuisance lawsuit and other concerns of our clients. We maintain an active practice handling insurance defense cases for our clients. Our clients also encounter litigation challenges unique to their legal environments, especially clients in the public sector or involved in specially regulated businesses. Finally, in some instances, the best interests of the client can require voluntary or involuntary strategic litigation over important public policy questions that can only be resolved in courts. Regardless of how the client finds itself in court, we handle the nuts and bolts of litigation without forgetting the client itself.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Columbia,	10

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Education	11
Government and Government Relations	2
Labor & Employment	9
Litigation	4
Litigation - General (consumer)	3
Tax - Controversy and Dispute Resolution	1