J. David Standeffer handles Trials and cases before all State and Federal, Civil and Criminal Courts.  In September 1998, he became a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, as a result of meeting the rigorous qualification requirements and passing the written national examination. He is one of the thirty-one attorneys so certified in the state of South Carolina.  Since 2005, he has been a certified Civil Mediator by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification. He has been continually selected to the American Association of Justice (formerly ATLA) Top 100 Trial Lawyers in South Carolina; continually voted into South Carolina Super Lawyers, through their investigation, polling and independent research; and he has also continually maintained the highest possible Peer Review Rating for ethical and legal ability of “AV” by the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory.  He has been continually listed in the areas of Civil Trial Practice, Personal Injury and Product Liability in Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, reflecting confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary about his abilities and achievements.  Has been named a life member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forum due to verdicts and settlements over  One Million Dollars and multiple Million Dollars. He was selected to Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association, continuously, since it began in 2007.
               
Mr. Standeffer graduated, with Honor, from Clemson University in 1972, after attending grades 1-12 in Anderson, and from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1975.  He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1975, served as a Captain in U.S. Army J.A.G. Corps for three years, practiced with a law firm in Europe for one year and for the Anderson and Epps Law Firm for one year in Anderson, before going to the Tenth Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office (Anderson and Oconee) for over seven years. He served as Anderson County Attorney for two years. He opened his private practice of law in 1988, in Anderson.

He is a member of the South Carolina, Anderson County and American Bar Association; The American Association for Justice; The American Trial Lawyers Association;; The South Carolina Association for Justice; The National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys; The Federal Bar Association; and is on the Board of Directors for  The Southern Trial Lawyers Association.  He has tried over 500 jury trials to verdict, plus hundreds of non-jury trial verdicts. He is married and has one child.

Sample reported cases: Clark v. Cantell, 339 S.C. 369, 529 S.E. 2d528 (2000), aff’g as modified 332 S.C. 433, 504 S.E. 2d605 (Ct. App.1998); Talkington v. Atria Reclamelucifers FabriekenBV, 152 F.2d 254, 260(4th Cir.1998), cert. dismissed, 525 U.S. 1062, 119 S.Ct. 634, 142 Led 2d 653 (1998).

Practice areas include: Truck wrecks, Nursing Home Neglect, Auto and Motorcycle wrecks, Medical Malpractice, defective Highway Design, Wrongful Death, Products Liability, Property Owner Negligence (slip and fall, defective building conditions, falling objects, inadequate security, over-serving of alcohol), Police Misconduct and Fire Loss (insurance claims), and Criminal (Fed.& State) and Victims of Crime.