“Using my law degree to help others gives me all the satisfaction in the world.” Josh Whitley, a native South Carolinian, is a former award-winning law student from William & Mary who studied under partner Jeffrey Breit, a professor of trial advocacy at the law school. “When I think of my law school experience, I think of Jeffrey Breit,” Whitley says. Whitley graduated Order of the Coif, Order of Barristers, and he received the Virginia Trial Lawyer’s Best Advocate honor. Under Breit’s coaching, Whitley, along with a partner, won the prestigious Gourley National Trial Competition, where Whitley was honored as best advocate.

Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Dennis W. Shedd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and returned to South Carolina to practice law until his law school professor called with the opportunity to work on the Deepwater Horizon / BP Oil Spill case as second chair to Breit, a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. Now, Whitley divides time between Charleston, South Carolina and New Orleans.

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