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Nexsen Pruet

1230 Main Street
Suite 700
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 771-8900

Overview

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Introduction

Nexsen Pruet employs more than 180 attorneys across eight offices in the Carolinas. Seventy-five years after its humble beginnings as a two-man South Carolina firm, it is now one of the largest and most profitable in the Southeast. A general business-oriented practice, Nexsen Pruet has a client roster that includes a number of the Carolina’s best-known companies and institutions, like the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals, Wells Fargo, and Honda Manufacturing of North America.

Firm Stats


Total No. Attorneys (2020)

150 - 250

No. of U.S. Offices

8

No. of International Offices

0


Major Office Locations

Charleston, SC


Major Practice Areas

Antitrust & Unfair Competition


Chairman

Leighton Lord

About the Firm

Nexsen Pruet is an AmLaw 200 firm with more than 180 attorneys operating out of its eight offices in the Carolinas. Seventy-five years after its humble beginnings as a two-man South Carolina firm, it is now one of the largest and most profitable in the Southeast. A general business-oriented practice, Nexsen Pruet has a client roster that includes a number of the Carolina’s best-known companies and institutions, like the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals, Wells Fargo, and Honda Manufacturing of North America.

Nexsen’s Legacy

In 1945, Paul Cooper and Frank Gary founded the firm that would later become Nexsen Pruet in Columbia, South Carolina. Cooper & Gary, as it was then known, quickly established itself in South Carolina&...