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
- South Carolina Super Lawyers (2012, 2018-2020)
- The Best Lawyers in America© - Workers' Compensation Law - Employers (1995-2020)
- Greenville Business Magazine's Legal Elite of the Upstate - Workers' Compensation (2017)
- Worthy Advisory Award Recipient - SC Association for Justice (2015)
- Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient - South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association (2010)
- Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ - AV®
Publications
- Clumsiness No Defense to Workers’ Compensation Claim PHTS | March 20, 2015