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Stanford E. Lacy

1330 Lady Street Sixth Floor, P.O. Box 12487 (29211)
Columbia, SC 29201
TEL: 803.255.0434
FAX: 803.771.4484
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Stan Lacy co-founded Collins & Lacy in 1984, and he practices in the area of workers’ compensation.  Stan graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1967. While at the University of Virginia, he served as President of the Engineering School, President of Sigma Pi Fraternity and was a member of the Trigon Society.  He then served four years in the United States Air Force, becoming a captain, where he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for the work he did on the Vietnamization of the war in Southeast Asia.  He also received the Vietnam Service Medal and the National Defense Ribbon. He earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1974 and was admitted to practice in South Carolina during the same year.  He began teaching workers’ compensation as an adjunct instructor at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1981 and has continued to teach ever since. He also frequently conducts workshops on compensation laws.

Former S.C. Governor Carroll Campbell appointed Stan to the Advisory Committee for the Improvement of Workers' Compensation Laws in South Carolina, where he worked with the legislature to review and revise legislation affecting the state’s workers' compensation system. He is considered one of South Carolina’s pre-eminent attorneys according to peers and Martindale-Hubbell and also was selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers has also named Stan as the “Columbia, SC Best Lawyers Workers' Compensation Law - Employers Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. The “Lawyers of the Year” is a designation awarded within high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

    

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Practice Focus/Trial Experience

  • Workers’ Compensation: over 30 years of experience before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, practicing workers’ compensation exclusively for over 20 years and working on all phases of workers’ compensation, including appeals to all appellate courts.  Has argued many landmark cases to Supreme Court including Breeden v TCW/Tennessee Express, 355 S.C. 112, 584 S.E.2d 379 (2003)  and  Pee v. AVM, Inc., 352 S.C. 167, 573 S.E.2d 785 (2002). 

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