Butler Snow LLP is pleased to announce attorney Bradish "Brad" J. Waring has been recognized in the 2025 edition of South Carolina Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers® for his work in Business Litigation. Waring has been named to this list since 2008.
Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers® 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 "Brad" 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 BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America® for commercial litigation and bet-the-company litigation, by South Carolina Thomson Reuters 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. In 2024, he received the South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice's Lifetime Achievement award. 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.
Waring 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.
Waring earned his bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina.