Alex Sanders
- Graduated from the University of South Carolina and from the University of Virginia.
- Former senior partner in Sanders & Quackenbush (now Berry, Quackenbush & Stuart).
- Former President of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association.
- Served in the South Carolina House of Representatives and Senate.
- Taught law at the University of South Carolina, the College of Charleston, and the Harvard Law School.
- Former Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals.
- President of the College of Charleston for nine years.
- 2002 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.
- Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the National Judicial College.
- Teaching fellow in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2003 and 2004.
- Current President Emeritus of the College of Charleston
- Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Charleston School of Law.
- Member of the Harvard Club of New York
Click here to watch a video of Alex Sanders giving the keynote address at the midwinter National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) meeting in Charleston.
Alex Sanders is married to Zoe Dutrow Sanders. They are the parents of one child, Zoe Sanders Nettles. She and her husband, Bill Nettles, are both lawyers and they are the parents of twin boys, William, Jr., and Alex, born December 18, 2003.
Bill Nettles
Bill
graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, SC and Widener School
of Law in Pennsylvania. Bill was a member of the Law Review, Moot
Court Honor Society and president of the Student Bar Association.
After graduating from law school Bill served his community as a
public defender in Columbia, SC for over three years. As a public
defender Bill specialized in litigating complex criminal cases involving
DNA, eyewitness identification and false confessions. Bill has successfully
defended cases involving each of these complex issues. After leaving
the Public Defender's Office in 1995 Bill went into private practice.
Bill still enjoys a vibrant criminal practice ranging from driving
under the influence to white collar defense. Bill and Alex Sanders have developed a very successful and broad civil practice. This
civil practice includes personal injury, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical
litigation and the ability to implement creative solutions for complex
legal problems.
Bill currently serves as section chair for the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. He serves on the board of the Richland County Bar. He is former president of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has served on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College where he teaches trial advocacy. Bill has published numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on a host of legal issues. Bill was a recent presenter at the ABA Criminal Law Subdivision Superior Cross and Direct. An article was written about Bill Nettles in the South Carolina Lawyer, the South Carolina bar magazine. Click here to read it.
Bill is married to Zoe Sanders Nettles, past president of the National Association of Women Lawyers and partner at the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. They have twin boys.