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Quick facts
Partners

36

Other qualified practitioners

35

Total number of lawyers

71

Practitioners (worldwide)

71

Key practice areas
Dispute resolution
Firm overview

Since 1948, our attorneys have been widely recognized for their experience, accomplishments and leadership. For more than seven decades, Gallivan White Boyd attorneys have served in leadership positions at the highest level within local, state, national, and international organizations. In 2016, GWB achieved a historic first when three firm partners served as Presidents of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar, The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, and the International Association of Defense Counsel during the same year.

We are committed to the preservation of justice for all. Our attorneys, their results, and their experience speak to that commitment. From business & commercial litigation to insurance coverage law, workers' compensation defense, commercial transportation, and more, our North and South Carolina attorneys are here to deliver excellence in client service. With offices in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina, Gallivan White Boyd handles a variety of complex litigation for local, regional and national clients.

Practice Areas & Sector Specialisations

Business and Commercial Litigation

  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights
  • Business and Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Corporate Business
  • Design & Construction
  • Electronic Discovery
  • Environmental Law
  • Estate Planning 
  • Healthcare Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Outside Corporate Counsel
  • Professional Negligence
  • Tax Transactions

Insurance Coverage:

  • Healthcare & ERISA Benefits
  • Insurance Coverage

Workers’ Compensation:

  • Workers’ Compensation Defense

Litigation:

  • Strategic Resolution
  • Appellate
  • Class Action
  • Commercial Transportation
  • Drug and Medical Device
  • Emergency Response
  • Governmental Liability
  • Local Counsel
  • Products Liability
  • Toxic and Mass Torts
  • Transportation – Railroad 
  • Tort and Personal Injury
  • Employment
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Other Offices
40 Calhoun St, Suite 315
Charleston 29401 
United States
T: 843.735.7600
 
6805 Carnegie Boulevard Suite 200,
Charlotte 28211 
United States
T: 704.552.1712
 
1201 Main St, Suite 1200
Columbia 29201
T: 803.779.1833
Address:
One Liberty Square
55 Beattie Place, Suite 1200
Greenville, SC, 29601
Tel:+1 864 271 9580 Fax:+1 864 271 7502 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.gwblawfirm.com/
Rankings published in 2025
Dispute resolution
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Linked Reviews
Dispute Resolution

Gallivan White & Boyd is a Southeast institution, regarded as one of the prominent law firms within the region. The firm operates out of three offices across South Carolina alone behind the effective leadership of litigation practice group head Ronald Wray III. Wray is recognized for his work on commercial transportation and complex litigation matters with an emphasis on railroad law, as well as in products liability, class actions, insurance coverage and appellate actions. Trial lawyer David Rheney represents clients in personal injury defense, transportation disputes, insurance and reinsurance mattes, bad-faith litigation, as well as product liability cases. Rheney is also active as global legal counsel of Insuralex, where he also serves as the South Carolina representative and presidentGray Culbreath is a seasoned trial lawyer who routinely represents corporations, individuals and insurers in trials and appeals in areas such as complex commercial and class-action litigation, including antitrust, product liability and mass tort actions. John T. Lay’s primary areas of focus include business litigation, professional malpractice, insurance coverage and bad faith, financial services litigation and product liability disputes. He continues to advocate on behalf of a boat manufacturer as national coordinating counsel. 

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