Reynolds H. Blankenship, Jr. - Associate

Email Mr. Blankenship - rblankenship@masellalaw.com

Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, including Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Breach of Contract, Business Disputes, Construction Litigation, Employment Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Probate Litigation, and Bad Faith Insurance Claims;

Workers’ Compensation;

Criminal Defense, including Drug Charges, Traffic Offenses, Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Criminal Domestic Violence, Violent Crime, and White Collar Crime;

Post-Conviction Relief;

Domestic Litigation, including Divorce, Separation, Custody, and Adoption;

Bar Admissions: South Carolina (2004).

Prior to joining Masella Law Firm, P.A., Mr. Blankenship served two years as a law clerk to Justice Costa M. Pleicones of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Mr. Blankenship has previously worked at the civil defense firms of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, LLP and Walker & Reibold, LLC in Columbia, where he defended the types of cases he now brings on behalf of injured plaintiffs.

Education: Loyola University New Orleans School of Law (J.D., 2004); University of South Carolina (B.A., 2001).

In 2004, Mr. Blankenship earned a Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, summa cum laude, graduating first in his class.  He served as Articles and Index Editor of the Loyola Law Review, for which he authored Time, Place, and Manner Analysis, Brandeis Briefs, and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, 50 Loy. L. Rev. 173 (2004).  While in law school, he received the award for Best Moot Court Appellate Brief in his First-Year Class, as well as Law Excellence Awards for Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, Constitutional Law, Contracts I, Contracts II, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Torts II, and Trusts & Estates.  He was also an oralist and brief-writer on a moot court team that competed in London and Vienna, Austria.

In 2001, Mr. Blankenship earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a Cognate in Physics from the University of South Carolina.