McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates

History

Established in 1989.

In 1989, Garland Pearson McWhirter joined the firm as managing attorney, and Thomas P. Bellinger, who had previously worked with Mr. McWhirter as an assistant public defender for Lexington County, became an associate with the firm. By 1996, the firm had expanded to two additional offices in Sumter and Orangeburg, South Carolina, and had five attorneys. The name of the firm became McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates. Today, McWhirter, Bellinger and Associates, P.A., has expanded to seven offices in seven counties with a staff of more than fifty employees, including eleven attorneys, and has brought to successful settlement or verdict thousands of personal injury cases.

Meet the Business Owner

H. Patterson M.

Business Owner

Mr. McWhirter is a member of:

American Association for Justice (Leaders Forum)

South Carolina Association for Justice

South Carolina Injured Workers Advocates

South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association

South Carolina Bar Association

Lexington County (former Executive Committee member)

Richland County Bar Associations

He has been a speaker and seminar coordinator for medical malpractice seminars at the South Carolina Bar Association – Continuing Legal Education Division, and has performed the same functions for the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Medical Seminars.