Robert Phillips

Robert V. Phillips is a South Carolina trial lawyer and managing partner at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. He represents people with catastrophic injuries caused by medical malpractice, 18-wheeler crashes and defective products, and he also handles civil rights cases.

His firm bio says he took a high-speed police crash case with a nominal recovery to the U.S. Supreme Court and helped establish a new civil rights claim. He devotes 100 percent of his practice to litigation, has presented at legal conferences from Los Angeles to New York and is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Phillips earned a B.A. in language and international trade from Clemson University in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2000. Before law school he played six years on the ATP Tour. He serves on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors as South Carolina delegate, on the South Carolina Association for Justice Board of Governors and Executive Committee, and on the Southern Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors.