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When I'm not working helping my clients, I enjoy spending time with my wife and children, riding motorcycles, and working out.  I enjoy traveling and spending time at the beach or the mountains whenever possible.

Travis Newton is a graduate of the Appalachian School of Law and Clemson University, where he majored in Psychology. As a law student, Travis was a founding member of the Appalachian School of Law Christian Legal Society and an extern for South Carolina's 8th Circuit Public Defenders Office. Travis Newton has delivered DUI-related oral arguments before the South Carolina Court of Appeals and is approved by the South Carolina Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education (CLE) to present DUI-related material for attorney CLE hours. Attorney Newton has been Lead Counsel Verified for DUI Defense by Thomson Reuters for ten consecutive years as a founding member of the American Association of Premier DUI Attorneys.

Paul is a native Hoosier. He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Ball State University. He obtained his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Florida Coastal School of Law. Paul is licensed to practice law in all Indiana State Courts including the Supreme Court of Indiana. He is also licensed to practice in the United States District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. Paul is a solo practitioner and owns and operates The Law Office of Paul J. Podlejski. Paul is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, and the Indiana State Bar Association Young Lawyers Section. In addition to private practice Paul is also a Public Defender for Madison County, Indiana, and Assistant City Attorney for the City of Anderson, Indiana.

Mr. Mills works tirelessly every day in an effort to bring justice to those who have been wronged. Mr. Mills has worked on both sides of the law and has been through some harrowing life experiences. Mr. Mills has been tested and tried by many of the more traumatic events that life has to offer and now provides his services to the public.. Who would you rather have on your side? Someone whose resolve has been tested and tried? Or someone who has intertwined their morality and greed in such a way that they can’t tell one from the other?. Mr. Mills went on to law school at Mercer University and clerked each summer trying to determine how he could best serve those less fortunate. The corporate law firms never truly provided him with that personal feeling of assisting the common person in need. It wasn’t until Mr. Mills became the first law clerk of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association under the supervision of Linda Franklin and lobbyist Michael Gunn that he realized where his education, life experience, drive, and hard work could truly benefit those who have been personally and directly affected by the negligence of another. Mr. Mills wanted to be a coveted and much needed plaintiff’s trial attorney. More importantly Mr. Mills realized the power of the faceless insurance companies, misinformed legislative members, and the true power of money and lobbyist in dictating laws.

Lifelong resident of Anderson, South Carolina, and serving clients throughout the upstate in a general practice.. PLEASE NOTE:  Attorney endorsements and client reviews (testimonials) are the opinions of those attorneys or clients.  Each case is unique and the results obtained for former clients does not indicate that the same or similar result can be obtained for another client.

Joy Davis was an Assistant Solicitor (Assistant District Attorney) with the Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office (District Attorney’s Office) and the Tenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office (District Attorney’s Office). She has also clerked for a South Carolina Circuit Court judge and for a United States Magistrate judge. Though Joy Davis handles cases in various areas, her primary areas of practice include criminal defense, domestic issues, adoption, white collar crimes and post conviction relief.. Joy Clark Davis earned her Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education in 1992 from Ohio University.  She was a Four-Year Scholarship Swimmer, winning countless events, including all 7 events entered at the Mid-American Conference Championships her freshman year – a first-time feat for any swimmer in the MAC Conference.  She earned her Juris Doctorate Degree at the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in 1995.

I have been licensed to practice law in South Carolina since November, 1973, and I have been involved in the practice of family law since January, 1974. I was a Family Court Judge from July, 1998, until January 1, 2009, at which time I retired from the bench to begin and maintain a full time, statewide mediation/arbitration practice.. I have been an instructor at the Orientation School for New Family Court Judges from 2004 through 2008, and in 2005 – 2006, was the president of the South Carolina Conference of Family Court Judges, and the chairperson of the South Carolina Family Court Judges Advisory Committee to the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. In 2004, I had the privilege of being appointed as the chairperson of the Family Court Judges subcommittee of the Chief Justice’s Task Force on Trial Court Operations.. Beginning in May, 2017, and continuing to this present date, I became one of the instructors for the University of South Carolina Children’s Law Center in its mock trial training sessions for the South Carolina Department of Social Services child welfare professionals; and I consider this work to be both consequential and a uniquely satisfying area in my practice of family law.. I have been a frequent guest lecturer, with prepared materials, at statewide South Carolina Bar/CLE Division seminars, at the Annual South Carolina Solicitors’ Conference and at local Bar-related programs, speaking on a variety of family law topics. For 2005 and 2006, I was the program coordinator and presenter for the Family Court Judges’ seminars at the Annual Judicial Conference.. I continue to practice family law, in various forms, under the umbrella of The Knobel Group, which includes my continuing as a certified family court mediator as Knobel Mediation Services, LLC, and, additionally, through Family Court Litigation Support Services and Early Neutral Evaluation Services.

I have battled to be the best. The best at my job, the best for my wife, the best for my child, and the best for my God. I have always reached my goals, even when faced with great adversity. I have learned the extreme difference between failing at something, which regretfully visits all of us, and being a failure, which one must actively choose to be. So long as we can learn from our mistakes our glasses should always be at least half full. It's not about your house, your car, your boat, your things; it's about your family, your attitude, your spirit, your joy of life. Living with the ups and through the downs is a path we all travel. I still battle to be the best. I will not be judged on how many times it fail, instead the masses will come to judge me in the number of times I've succeeded. What I have learned, the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I've failed, picked up the pieces, and continued on!

I have administered thousands of breath tests and personally own a DataMaster DMT, the instrument currently being used by South Carolina law enforcement.  I also own the following instruments which have been used in the past:

I defend people accused of crimes in South Carolina state, county and city courts. I have been practicing law in the Upstate for almost 30 years. I have worked in a large law firm and, as a prosecutor, prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases. Let me put my broad experience to work for you.

I am one of the elite 21 lawyers in all of South Carolina who are Board Certified in Civil Trial Advocacy (National Board of Trial Advocacy and SC Supreme Court from 1996) in South Carolina, and I am only 1 of only 21 lawyers in South Carolina who are Board Certified in Civil Pretrial Practice Law (National Board of Trial Advocacy and SC Supreme Court, from 2012).  I have qualified for recertification every year. I have Million and Multi-Million Dollar results in both State and Federal Courts. Among my Million Dollar ($20 million highest) results are cases in Wreck, Product Liability, Burn, Inadequate Security, Nursing Neglect and Defective Industrial Machinery cases. Other cases include Amputation, Criminal Defense (Fed/State), Defective Construction, Dog Bite, Fire Loss, Insurance Claims, Motorcycle, Police Abuse, Premises (Inadequate Security, slip/trip fall), Unpaid Wages, Wrongful Death.. I earned The Meritorious Service Medal after 3 years duty in The Judge Advocate General's Corps in Germany. I was Officer-in-Charge of one of the busiest law offices in all the Armed Forces.. With over 500 jury verdicts, I have continuously been rated, by judges and other lawyers in confidential surveys, with the highest possible ratings for legal ability and ethics by the most respected national rating publication, MartindaleHubbell ("AV" rating). I have repeatedly been selected as TOP 100 Attorney by The National Trial Lawyers Association. All are the highest possible rating, based upon confidential Peer Review. I am a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum.

I am a Trial Lawyer dedicated to justice for my clients. If you have been injured in a trucking or auto accident, or if you have been arrested by law enforcement, you have rights, be infomed. Call me today for your free consultation at 833-zakiali.

Dedicated trial advocacy starts with finding an attorney with your best interests in mind.  Ralph E. Sipes, an attorney based in Anderson, Indiana, has been doing just that for more than 30 years.  After clerking for theIndiana Supreme Court for the late Chief Justice Richard M. Givan, he earned the position of managing partner at Busby, Austin, Cooper, & Farr, and has practiced as a solo practitioner since 2008.. Recent expansion to office space on the second floor of the PNC Bank Building in Anderson, Indiana in December of 2011 allows the firm to better serve clients throughout the State of Indiana and the United States.. Practice areas include general Civil Litigation and Appellate Advocacy, Business Law, Business Litigation, Business Entity Formation (Corporations, LLC’s, Partnerships, Sole Proprietorships), Contract Law, Estate and Probate, Probate Litigation, Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, Trusts, Guardianships, Adoptions, Defamation, Personal Injury, Lemon Law, Tax Sales, Real Estate, Foreclosure, and Landlord/Tenant Law. (His practice does not include Criminal Law, Traffic Violations, Hardship Licenses, Divorce and Child Custody, or Debtor’s Bankruptcy Law.)

Daniel L. Draisen is a native of South Carolina, born in Greenville, SC, in 1972. He received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1994 and obtained his law degree from the University of Tulsa in 1997.. Mr. Draisen authored "The Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Their Relationship to Legal Malpractice Actions: A Practical Approach to the use of the Rules" for the Journal of the Legal Professional. He is a member of the Anderson County, Tulsa County and American Bar Associations as well as the American Association for Justice, South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity.  He is also elected to the SC Bar House of Delegates and is the Regional Chair and the 10th Circuit Chair for the SC Bar Resolution of Fee Disputes Board.  Mr. Draisen serves on the Practice and Procedures Committee and the Ethics Advisory Committee of the South Carolina Bar.. Mr. Draisen was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1997 and was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1998.  He is also admitted in the United States Supreme Court, United States District Court, District of South Carolina, the United States District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma, the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and the United States Court of Veterans Appeals.  Mr. Draisen’s areas of practice include truck, automobile and motorcycle accident litigation, medical malpractice litigation, insurance litigation, civil litigation, serious personal injury litigation, boating accident litigation, real estate and construction litigation, contract and collection disputes, business litigation, workers' compensation, probate and estate litigation, and criminal defense.

Dan Whitehead grew up in Anderson, Indiana, completed his Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree from Ball State, and earned his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University – Indianapolis.. Dan overcame tremendous adversity in life as a child when his father and brother were arrested, convicted, and sent to prison.  Without the money for high priced attorneys and not having the finer things in life (other than a wonderful grandmother Dan would say), Dan worked his way through school paying his way and earning the grades needed to get into law school so that he may find a way of getting his brother and father released from prison.  During this time, Dan was also wrongfully charged criminally but he proved his innocence and was acquitted.  Having been through the legal system, wrongfully accused of a crime, he is able to relate to his clients like no other attorney in Madison County.. Dan knows what it is like to go visit family in prison for Christmas. Watching his family torn apart by the legal system, he now looks for ways to use the system to strengthen children.  As he watches parents find ways of attacking the other parent inside and outside the courtroom, he tells clients, “Children need love, trust, and hope. Look in the mirror, ‘Am I really doing this to my kid?’ A child will blame themselves.” He aims to work to resolve family conflict in peaceful resolutions with visitation and custody plans that focus on the children, because in the end, it is what the parents want as well – well adjusted happy children.. Recently Dan has been speaking out as a cancer survivor beating stage 4 cancer.  He truly believes through his life’s work  you can always overcome adversity.

Christopher Pracht, is a native South Carolinian born in Anderson, South Carolina. After graduating from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, where he lettered in football and was captain of the track team, Christopher received his BA in Political Science from the College of Charleston. During his undergraduate studies, Christopher worked for the renowned South Carolina trial lawyer and retired Chief Justice of the SC Court of Appeals, Alex Sanders. Christopher’s time with Judge Sanders inspired him to become a lawyer and represent hard working people. Christopher has recently been elected as a board member of the South Carolina Justice PAC. In 2015 he joined the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States of which membership is limited to attorneys who have won million dollar verdicts and settlements. Christopher has been named a Superlawyer rising star for the years 2016 and 2017 and was awarded the “10 Best Client Satisfaction Award” by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys.

Born Louisville, Kentucky, May 20, 1940; admitted to bar, 1970, Indiana; 1970, Michigan; also admitted to practice before U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; U.S. District Courts, Southern District of Indiana and Eastern District of Michigan.  Preparatory education, Rockhurst College (B.S., Industrial Relations, 1962); legal education, Detroit College of Law (J.D., 1970).  Mediator, 1993- .  Town Court Judge, Edgewood, Indiana, 1978-1979.  City Attorney, Anderson, Indiana, 1980-87; Assistant City Attorney, 2004-08, Anderson Redevelopment Commission Attorney, 1980-88 and 2004-.  Criminal Magistrate, 1990-95.  Deputy Prosecutor, Madison County, Indiana, 1995-00.  Member: Madison County and Indiana State Bar Associations; Indiana Municipal Lawyers Association (President, 1986-87).. Practice Areas:

Attorney K. Aaron Heifner is a skilled criminal defense, family law, and personal injury attorney for Beeman Heifner Benge P.A. He is the founder of Heifner Law Inc., where he assists clients with a broad range of legal issues, including DUI/OWI defense, probation violations, domestic violence charges, divorce, child custody and support, car accidents, and more.. Attorney Heifner has developed a reputation as an aggressive advocate for parents and defendants, as well as those injured due to the negligence of another person, company, or entity. With every case he takes on, Attorney Heifner strives to provide his clients with personalized, one-on-one attention and open communication. He answers calls and texts within minutes, all seven days of the week.Attorney Heifner is a graduate of Indiana Tech Law School and a member of numerous legal organizations, including the Indy Bar Association, Madison County Bar Association, and the Indiana State Bar Association. Call for a free consultation.

Attorney David Stoddard is a trial lawyer. He has spent his entire 25-year career litigating cases in courtrooms throughout South Carolina. He emphases cases involving personal injury, DUI arrests, and Family Law.Personal Injury Attorney of Anderson, SC, David Stoddard has extensive experience in civil litigation and criminal litigation, both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. He began his career as a prosecutor for the 10th Judicial Circuit. From 1986 through 1994, David prosecuted serious felonies, including murder cases, rape cases, drug cases and white-collar crime. Attorney Stoddard left the Solicitor’s Office in 1994 and went into practice with the firm Waldrep & Stoddard. While at the firm, David mainly represented defendants as a personal injury attorney in Anderson, SC, and in insurance defense cases. However, when the firm became more plaintiff oriented, Stoddard left the firm to start his own personal injury attorney practice in 2006.When David is not in the courtroom, he spends much of his free time with his wife and his two children. He is also an active member of the Anderson community. He is a member of the Anderson Rotary Club and serves as a deacon for the Anderson First Baptist Church. David is also on the church’s Personnel Committee and sings in their choir. Mr. Stoddard also enjoys listening to music, golf, running and weight lifting.

A native of Indiana, I could only call Indiana home.  I was raised by my grandparents in Plymouth, Indiana.  As a basketball and baseball player in highschool, I earned a scholarship on to college.  After an injury, I had to work to make it through school.  I graduated earning top honors through college and law school.  Upon graduation, I started working for the State of Indiana as a prosecutor and since have been through more than 100 jury trials fighting from both sides of the aisle.. If you are looking for a Criminal Defense Lawyer or Family Law Attorney in Anderson or Indianapolis, go with an attorney experienced at getting results and loves the heat in the kitchen.

A lifelong Hoosier, Spenser grew up in Anderson and completed his undergraduate degree at Indiana University in Bloomington. During college, Spenser got his hands dirty with the Hamilton County Health Department, wading through swamps and exploring ditches and woods to treat for mosquitos. He is a huge Pacers and Colts fan, and one of his favorite foods is a foot-long hot dog at Indians games.Spenser graduated cum laude from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Class of 2016. During law school, he sat as the Executive Production Editor for the Indiana Health Law Review and published a work in that journal about combatting unlawful discrimination in health care administration. Spenser spent his first summer during law school at the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, which fostered his passion for social justice.Spenser is committed to helping those in need. That is why he became a lawyer. Accordingly, his practice consists predominantly of criminal defense and federal civil rights litigation. However, he does take general litigation cases under the right circumstances. As long as there is someone in need, Spenser is ready and willing to help. Spenser has strong ties to his family – his mother, father, brother, grandparents and great grandparents – and sees them often. He loves to play guitar with his dad, make Starbucks runs with his mom, and he never misses a chance at some of his great grandma’s carrot cake. On the weekend, Spenser can usually be found watching a baseball game, from first pitch to last, and enjoying an IPA. His musical tastes range from Metallica to Tupac to Ke$ha, and he is currently nursing a fledgling vinyl record collection.