Butler Snow LLP is pleased to announce attorneys Bradish “Brad” J. Waring and Robert E. Sumner IV have been recognized in the 2024 edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers® for their exceptional work in Business Litigation. Sumner was previously recognized by South Carolina Super Lawyers® from 2016-2021, and Waring has been recognized since 2008, among other professional accolades.
Super Lawyers®, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a rigorous process, including a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 5% of lawyers in each state or region are named to the Super Lawyers® list, and no more than 2.5% are named to the Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers® identifies Rising Stars as those attorneys, 40 years old or younger, who have made exceptional contributions in a particular practice area for 10 years or less.
Bradish J. Waring | Business Litigation
Waring is a seasoned trial attorney with 40+ years of experience and 50+ trials to verdict. He is a member of the firm’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation Group, where he concentrates his practice in the civil arena at the state and federal levels, where he represents a variety of clients in complex litigation matters. He is also frequently asked by his peers to serve as a mediator or arbitrator in various civil matters. Waring has handled many maritime personal injury matters on both the plaintiff and defense sides. He is also a member of the Southeast Admiralty Law Institute (SEALI).
Waring has been recognized by Best Lawyers® for commercial litigation and bet-the-company litigation, by South Carolina Super Lawyers® for business litigation, transportation/maritime, alternative dispute resolution, insurance coverage and personal injury-products, by Chambers USA for litigation: general commercial and by Martindale-Hubbell® with an AV-Preeminent Peer Review rating. He was also listed in Charleston Business Magazine’s Legal Elite of the Low Country – International Maritime, is a two-time recipient of the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Leadership in Law Award and is a recipient of the Compleat Lawyer Award, Gold Category from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
He serves as a Board Member of the Law Alumni Council and was the Past President of the South Carolina Bar, a Legacy Donor of the South Carolina Bar Foundation, the State Bar Delegate for South Carolina for the American Bar Association, and a mediator for the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals in Charleston. He is a member of the Charleston County Bar Association, the South Carolina Judicial Council, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, the Southeast Admiralty Law Institute, the Defense Research Institute (DRI), and the Litigation Counsel of America Trial Law Institute and Diversity Law Institute. Waring has been previously reappointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Chief Justice’s Commission on The Profession.
Brad Waring earned his bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina.
Robert E. Sumner IV | Business Litigation
Sumner is a member of Butler Snow’s Commercial Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on complex civil litigation for a range of business clients, including large corporations, small businesses, manufacturers, real estate owners and developers and trustees. He handles jury and non-jury cases throughout the country and has appeared before the North Carolina and South Carolina Courts of Appeals and Supreme Courts, as well as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sumner was previously recognized by Super Lawyers® for Business Litigation from 2016-2021 and Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Trusts & Estates Litigation from 2021-2024, as well as Real Estate Litigation in 2024. In 2023, Best Lawyers in America® named Sumner Lawyer of the Year in Litigation – Trusts and Estates in Charleston. He was also named to Charleston Business Magazine’s Legal Elite lists for Business Litigation in 2021 and 2022.
Alongside his professional accolades, Sumner is a member of several associations, including serving as Co-Chair of the Engagement Committee and Chair of the Education Committee for the Charleston County Bar Association as well as Chair of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel’s Commercial Litigation Section. He also serves in the House of Delegates for the South Carolina Bar Association and a member of the American Bar Association’s Trial Practice Committee, Litigation Section. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association.
Sumner earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina.
