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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.

Over 40 years experience representing victims of serious injury. Our goal is to provide friendly, compassionate, and dedicated representation to all clients.

My father is a trial lawyer, but I never really appreciated my father’s work until I was fourteen years old. That winter, I was seriously injured as a passenger in a motor vehicle accident. I was hospitalized and underwent a one-level posterior cervical fusion with instrumentation for a dislocated vertebra in my neck. According to the surgeon, I missed being rendered quadriplegic by a couple of millimeters. It was a frightening and painful experience. My father handled the legal aspects of my claim, and through his work, I learned firsthand the valuable service that trial lawyers provide for victims in society. Not only did my father help me, I saw how my father’s actions improved our community. My accident occurred on a dangerous, unmarked hairpin curve, which had been the site of several prior accidents. Through my father’s efforts, the State erected signs to warn other drivers of the approaching dangerous curve. To my knowledge, no wrecks have occurred in that area since the warning signs were erected. I knew then that I wanted to be a lawyer, so I could devote my life to helping others, just as I had been helped.. I grew up in Anderson; however, I left in the tenth grade to attend high school at The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The academic environment was challenging and competitive. Today, I look back on my experiences at McCallie with great pride. McCallie’s motto is “honor, truth and duty”. I believe that adherence to those principles, which were ingrained in me at an early age, will help me be successful in life and as a lawyer.. After graduation, I attended Elon University. I chose Elon because I believed that I would be better served academically and socially at a small school. I wanted to build relationships with my professors and classmates. However, the values I gained during my four years at Elon far exceeded my initial expectations. The university encourages student leadership and gives numerous opportunities for students to pinpoint their individual talents and use them successfully. I joined Kappa Alpha Order and became involved in Greek life. During my sophomore year, the student body at Elon selected me to be “Greek Man of the Year”. I held various leadership positions within the fraternity, including community service chairman and treasurer. Through these opportunities, I created sincere relationships in the university community and realized the value of strong social skills in attaining my professional goals in law.. After graduation from Elon, I entered the master’s degree program in education at Anderson University and ultimately obtained a Masters of Education in 2008. While pursuing the master’s degree, I also worked full time as a legal assistant at the law firm. Aside from the practical experience, the trial lawyers at the firm instilled in me some ideology necessary to succeed in law: (1) The most persuasive arguments often occur when the lawyer creatively thinks “outside of the box” so that I can distinguish my case from the norm, and (2) attention to detail is imperative if a lawyer hopes to be successful, because it only takes one mistake for the lawyer to lose the trust of his client or his credibility before a jury. I intend to incorporate these principles into all aspects of my life and I believe they will help me to be a successful lawyer.. After obtaining the master’s degree, I entered law school at Thomas M. Cooley School of Law in Lansing, Michigan. Law school was very challenging. I focused my legal education on litigation and was fortunate to excel in Moot Court and mock trial competitions. I graduated from law school in 2011 and returned home to Anderson.. My first job as a lawyer was working as a law clerk for The Honorable R. Lawton McIntosh, 10th Judicial Circuit Court Judge. My experience with Judge McIntosh was priceless. I travelled throughout South Carolina with Judge McIntosh and had the opportunity to observe many jury and non-jury trials and hearings, both criminal and civil. This experience taught me how to become a better advocate for my clients and how to adequately prepare cases for litigation.. In addition to practicing law, it is one of my goals to give back to my community. I was elected to the Board of Directors of Anderson Heritage whose mission is “to preserve the historical and architectural interest in the community.” I am also a lifelong member of St. John’s United Methodist Church, where I serve as an usher on Sundays and my wife sings in the choir.. As an attorney at the Trammell & Mills Law Firm, LLC, I have focused my practice on helping those who have been hurt on the job, injured in car wrecks, or otherwise suffered serious personal injuries.

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.

M. J. Goodwin has been a practicing Family Court lawyer in Anderson, South Carolina, and the surrounding counties, since 1991.   M. J. Goodwin is a 1987 graduate of Clemson University.  She graduated from the School of Law at the University of South Carolina in 1991.  She was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that same year.  She began her career in Anderson as a prosecutor with the Tenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office.  After establishing herself as familiar figure in the Family and Criminal Courtrooms in Anderson, she opened her own firm in 1994.  M. J. Goodwin believes that everyone should have competent, zealous representation when facing any situation involving a Court.  Family Court is the most emotional, stressful Court that any litigant can face.  It is crucial to have an experienced attorney who can give solid legal advice and temper it with common sense.. M. J. Goodwin's achievements include:

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 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.

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.

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.

Experienced R attorney serving clients in Anderson and surrounding areas.