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Blaney Coskrey Attorney & Mediator Coskrey Law Office 1201 Main Street, Suite 1980 Columbia, SC 29201 Tel: 803.748.1202 Fax: 803.748.1302 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Mr. Coskrey graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Furman University in 1986. He attended law school at the University of South Carolina, where he was an editor of the law review. He also was a member of the academic honor societies of the Order of the Coif and Order of the Wig and Robe. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude in May 1989 and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in November 1989.
Following law school, he began a two-year federal clerkship with the Honorable Clyde H. Hamilton. That clerkship included experience both at the trial and appellate levels. For most of those two years, Judge Hamilton served as a United States District Judge. Toward the end of Mr. Coskrey's clerkship, Judge Hamilton became a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Mr. Coskrey was admitted to practice before the United States District Court in 1991 and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1992. He began practicing with the firm of Glenn Irvin Murphy Gray & Stepp upon completion of his federal clerkship in 1991, and started Coskrey Law Office in February 1997, where he has remained for more than twenty-seven years.
He is currently a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, the Solo/Small Firm Section of the Bar, and the Richland County Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association ("NELA").
He has had the honor of serving for several decades as a member of the United States District Court Local Rules Advisory Committee, which advises and suggests to the Court amendments to the federal local rules for the District.
Mr. Coskrey has written articles and given presentations on various topics ranging from federal court practice to helping businesses improve their collection practices. He's been selected multiple times for inclusion in groups such as Super Lawyers.
He has tried cases in state and federal courts, and argued appeals before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the S.C. Court of Appeals, and the S.C. Supreme Court.
Some of the published appellate decisions in which Mr. Coskrey has been an attorney include: Byrd v. Livingston, No. 4973 (S.C. Ct. App. 2012); QZO, Inc. v. Moyer, 594 S.E.2d 541 (S.C. Ct. App. 2004); Colonial Pacific Leasing Corp. v. Taylor, 484 S.E.2d 595 (S.C. Ct. App. 1997); Medical Park OB/GYN, P.A. v. Ragin, 467 S.E. 2d 261 (S.C. Ct. App. 1996); Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Adams, 30 F. 3d 554 (4th Cir. 1994), affirming 828 F. Supp. 379 (D.S.C. 1993)