Bill Shaughnessy’s practice focuses on workers’ compensation defense. For over 40 years, he has represented numerous clients in claims involving industrial accidents, occupational stress-related claims, occupational disease claims and repetitive trauma injury claims.
Practice Areas
- Workers' Compensation
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law (JD)
- Wofford College (BA)
Professional Memberships
- South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association (Past President, Current Board Member)
- Governor’s Advisory Committee on Improvement of Workers’ Compensation Laws (Chairman)
- SC Bar Association (Former Chair of the Workers' Compensation Section)
Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association (2010)
- The Best Lawyers In America© (1995-2018)
- South Carolina Super Lawyers (2012, 2018)
- Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ - AV®
- Worthy Advisory Award, SC Association for Justice (2015)
- Greenville Business Magazine's Legal Elite - Workers' Compensation (2017)
Publications
- Clumsiness No Defense to Workers’ Compensation Claim PHTS | March 20, 2015