Attorneys

             W. Mullins McLeod, Jr. is a founding shareholder of Pierce, Herns, Sloan & McLeod, LLC, a Charleston litigation firm employing 22 attorneys licensed to practice in states throughout the country.   Mullins has served as lead counsel in numerous litigation proceedings, including trials, arbitrations, alternative dispute resolution, and related contested matters, in a variety of complex cases including mass toxic tort and personal injury suits, wrongful death actions, commercial litigation, contractual disputes, and multi-million dollar construction deficiency cases.  Mullins has extensive jury trial experience and has tried and argued numerous matters in state and federal courts throughout the country.  Of his more recent cases, Mullins was lead trial counsel in litigation following a disastrous chemical spill in Hartsville, South Carolina in September, 2003, resulting in a global settlement on behalf of over 100 victims represented by Pierce, Herns, Sloan & McLeod.  He also served as Class Counsel for In re Graniteville, Civil Action No.: 1:05-00115-MBS, which provided relief to over 3,000 people injured in the second largest chemical spill in U.S. history.

Mullins was born on March 4, 1972 and is from Walterboro, SC.  He is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School (1990), Wofford College (1994) and the University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D., 1997).  He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1997, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina in 1998, and the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.  Following law school, Mullins served as law clerk to then Circuit Court Judge, Costa M. Pleicones, now Associate Justice to the South Carolina Supreme Court.