Preston McDaniel is proud to represent injured workers, the people he came from.

I grew up in the country outside of Rock Hill, SC.  I worked in my father and mother’s family business,  two grocery stores, and their other businesses, a used furniture business, a used café equipment business, an uptown café, a used car lot, a horse farm (my father’s love), and tack room,  and when of age drove a  truck for the truck farming business delivering wholesale produce to other local grocery stores allowing them to compete with the “new” national chain stores.   

After graduating in 1969 from Rock Hill High School, I attended the University of South Carolina working my way through and earning a BA degree in 1973 with a double major  – History and Political Science.  I was admitted to the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1973 and after my freshman year studied at the University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, and the University of Leeds, Leeds, England.  

After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1976, I worked at:

1. * the South Carolina Governor’s Office, Office of Criminal Justice Programs;
2. * Attorney/Courts specialist,  then South Carolina Attorney General Dan McLeod, Staff Attorney;
3. * then Assistant Attorney General: Child Support Enforcement Division; 
4. * Criminal Appeals;
5. * Criminal Prosecution Division;
6. * then Chief Staff Attorney and General Counsel for the State Accident Fund.  

In March of 1984, I left public service to enter private practice, practicing in all areas of civil litigation. Because of my background in Workers’ Compensation and Appellate Practice, I was associated with Appeals and Workers’ Compensation cases.  By 1990,  the vast majority of my practice was Workers’ Compensation and since 2000 I have practiced almost exclusively in the area of Workers’ Compensation. 

Associations or Organizations Service and Membership:

1. * President of South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, now the South Carolina Association for Justice, 2004-2005; 
2. * Member of the Board of Governors; or
3. * Section Chair of the Worker’s Compensation or Officer for over 18 years 
4. * South Carolina Association of Claimants Attorneys for Workers Compensation, now the Injured Workers Advocates;
5. * I served for over 20 years as an Officer or Board Member, serving as Treasurer for 10 years;
6. * Member of WILG (Work Injury Litigation Group), the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Attorneys; 
7. * Proud member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, now the American Association for Justice; 
8. * Member of South Carolina Bar Association 
9. * Member of South Carolina Worker’s Compensation Section 
10. * Member of Richland County Bar Association
11. * Member of every Claimants’ negotiating team for SCTLA/SCAWCCA for Worker’s Compensation (so called reform) since 1990 
12. * Served on the Claimant’s seven-member Review Committee for the 1990 Workers’ Compensation’s Regulations
13. * Appointed as the only Claimant’s Representative to Governor Sanford’s Workers’ Compensation Reform Committee
14. * Admitted to practice before the United States District Court and the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

I have argued between 100 and 200 cases before the South Carolina Supreme Court and the South Carolina Court of Appeals.  I have as many or more Published and Unpublished Opinions in the area of Workers’ Compensation than any other currently practicing attorney in South Carolina.

Above all and in everything I have done, it has been my privilege to represent thousands of injured workers and their families before the South Carolina Worker’s Compensation Commission and the Courts of our State.  It would be my and my firm’s privilege to represent you or someone you love or care about.