James B. Hood
Partner
Email: james.hood@hoodlaw.com
Direct Dial: 843.577.1223
James “Jamie” Hood is a partner at the Hood Law Firm, LLC. He focuses his practice on civil litigation, including defense of products liability, commercial litigation, admiralty, negligence, personal injury, construction litigation, medical malpractice and insurance coverage litigation. Jamie has extensive trial experience in multiple jurisdictions, having litigated cases across South Carolina and in Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.
Jamie graduated with a B.A. from the University of the South in 1999. He then earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2002. Upon completion of law school, Jamie decided to further his legal education by earning his LL.M. from Tulane University School of Law, where he was awarded the Edward A. Dodd Jr. Award, graduating with the highest grade point average of his graduating class. After earning his LL.M., he joined the Hood Law Firm in 2003.
EDUCATION
- LL.M., Tulane University School of Law, 2003
- Recipient of the Edward A. Dodd, Jr Award (awarded to the individual graduating with the highest G.P.A.)
- J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, 2002
- South Carolina Environmental Law Journal
- John Belton O’Neal Inn of Court
- B.A., University of the South at Sewanee, 1999
COURT ADMISSIONS
- State Bar of South Carolina
- United States District Court, District of South Carolina
- United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES
- South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, Current Member of Executive Committee
- Defense Research Institute
- Association of Defense Trial Attorneys
- Network of Trial Law Firms
- Charleston County Bar Association
- South Carolina Bar Association
- American Bar Association
LOCAL AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
- Widows and Orphans Society of the Charleston Medical Society
- Propeller Club
- Huguenot Society of South Carolina
- St. Andrew’s Society
- Hibernian Society
