Ross B. Plyler

Ross Plyler is an associate with Collins & Lacy practicing in the areas of insurance defense litigation, business and employment law, and college and university law.  Ross has also handled commercial real estate transactions.  Ross is a summa cum laude graduate of Wofford College, where he received his undergraduate degree in Government and History and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Following law school he served as a law clerk for The Honorable Henry M. Herlong, Jr., United States District Court Judge.  Prior to joining Collins & Lacy, Ross was an associate with Love, Thornton, Arnold & Thomason, P.A. in Greenville, South Carolina.

Practice Focus/Trial Experience

• Insurance Coverage
• Commercial Litigation
• Employment Law
• College & University Law
• Commercial Real Estate

Professional, Civic, and Community Involvement

• Goodwill Industries of the Upstate/Midlands
  • Board of Directors
• South Carolina Bar
  • House of Delegates for the 13th Judicial Circuit, Member 
• Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys 
• Greenville County Bar
• American Bar Association
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association
• First Presbyterian Church of Greenville

Papers, Presentations, and Publications

• Protecting South Carolina's Isolated Wetlands in the Wake of Solid Waste Agency, 53 S.C. L. REV. 757 (2002)