Ross B. Plyler

Ross Plyler is a senior associate with Collins & Lacy practicing in the areas of insurance litigation, employment law, transportation law, and college and university law.  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 Transportation

Professional, Civic, and Community Involvement

• Goodwill Industries of the Upstate/Midlands
  • Board of Directors
• Goodwill Foundation
  • Vice-Chairman of Board
• South Carolina Bar
  • House of Delegates for the 13th Judicial Circuit, Member 
• Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys 
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Lawyers' Professionalism & Ethics Committee
• Greenville County Bar
• 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)

Speaking Engagements

• Free Seminar Series: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Litigation: Tips to Keep Your Company out of Court, July 29, 2010