Thomas W. Traxler

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BORN
Greenville, South Carolina, August 20, 1952

COLLEGE
Davidson College, B.A. in German, 1974

LAW SCHOOL
University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1979
Articles Editor, South Carolina Law Review 1978-1979

PRACTICE AREAS
Complex Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Family Law and Mediation

ADMISSIONS
All courts of the State of South Carolina, United States District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

BIOGRAPHY

  • Member of South Carolina Association for Justice (formerly South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association).
  • Member of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).
  • Member (Masters category) of Upstate South Carolina Inn of Court.
  • Member of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
  • South Carolina Board of Bar Examiners 2001-2009.
  • South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Committee 1983-1985.
  • South Carolina Bar House of Delegates ca. 1983-1985.
  • Greenville County Bar Association President 1997.
  • Adjunct instructor in Business Law at Furman University 1981-2011.
  • Recipient of the Greenville County Bar Tommy Thomason Award for 2009.
  • Recipient of the 2009 South Carolina Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).
  • Recipient of 2011 University of South Carolina School of Law Platinum Compleat Lawyer Award.
  • Best Lawyers in America for five (5) areas of practices: Commercial Litigation, Bet-The-Company Litigation, Family Law, Real Estate Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
  • Best Lawyers’ 2009 Greenville Family Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • Best Lawyers’ 2010 Greenville Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year.
  • Best Lawyers’ 2011 Greenville Real Estate Litigator of the Year.
  • Listed in Super Lawyers of South Carolina since its inception.
  • Rated in the top 25 lawyers in South Carolina by Super Lawyers of South Carolina in 2009.
  • Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell since 1989.
  • Mentor with the South Carolina Lawyer Mentoring Program.
  • Developer of 4 software programs for use in the Family Court, Traxler’s Child Support Calculator, the Alimony Calculator, and the Equitable Apportionment Worksheet, and Traxler’s Child Support Calculator for the North Carolina Bar Association.

INTERESTS
Fencing, cycling, computers, history