C. Daniel Atkinson
Associate
Spartanburg Office



 

Dan Atkinson is an Associate in the firm’s Spartanburg office. His practice focuses on all areas of general litigation including professional liability defense, construction litigation, personal injury defense, insurance litigation, business torts and education law. Additionally, Dan has represented several licensed professionals before administrative agencies. Dan has also advised several school districts on administrative matters, including athletic eligibility issues.

Dan graduated cum laude from Furman University, where he served as a Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow and where he was recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as his class’ Outstanding Student in American History. While at Furman, Dan served as a Student Athletic Trainer for the Paladin Athletic Program, working primarily with the Football, Baseball, Men’s Basketball, and Men’s Soccer Teams. Dan also served as South Carolina’s Student Athletic Trainer for the 1996 Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas All-Star Football Game.

He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he served as an instructor in legal research and writing. While at Washington and Lee, Dan was active in Moot Court, and he was recognized as Best Oralist at American University’s Mid-Atlantic Regional for the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Following law school, Dan clerked for the Honorable J. Derham Cole, Chief Administrative Judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit of South Carolina.

A native of Laurens, South Carolina, Dan is a second-generation Furman graduate. He is an active member of Furman’s Paladin Club, and he currently volunteers as legal counsel to the Medical Committee for the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas All-Star Football Game. He serves in numerous volunteer capacities within the Blue Ridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Dan resides with his wife, Amanda, in Greer, South Carolina. The Atkinson's are members of Lee Road United Methodist Church in Taylors, where Dan teaches Sunday School.
 

Washington and Lee University School of Law, Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2004
Furman University, B.A., History and Political Science, cum laude, 2001

South Carolina, 2004
North Carolina, 2006

U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

"You Can't Handle the Truth: Preparing for the Witness Stand," North Carolina Athletic Trainers Association Annual Symposium, March 8, 2009, Concord, North Carolina; South Carolina Athletic Trainers Association Annual Symposium, July 10, 2009, Columbia, South Carolina.