Johnny-Felder-Bio

Meet South Carolina Injury Lawyer and Business Litigation Attorney Johnny Felder

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South Carolina Attorney Johnny Felder received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Wofford College in 1990. He went on to get his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1994.

Johnny currently specializes in medical malpractice, nursing home and personal injury cases involving catastrophic injury. He has procured many successful trial verdicts, both jury and non-jury. Relatively recently, Johnny and his law partner Chad McGowan procured the largest personal injury verdict in the history of Aiken County.

Over the years, while predominantly handling personal injury matters, Johnny also handled various types of business and class action cases. For example, he represented a series of automobile dealers in litigation involving RICO and breach of trust contract claims against multiple Honda entities. He also served as class counsel in antitrust litigation against Hillenbrand Industries, resulting in one of the largest private antitrust settlements in the history of the United States. Johnny was an attorney who worked for the State of South Carolina in tobacco litigation. He also served on the Steering Committee in the Graniteville train disaster litigation and was a member of the Economic Loss Steering Committee in the ReNu recall litigation.

Johnny is a current member of the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice. He is a past president and board member of the Palmetto Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. For several years, he served as a board member for the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday After the Masters annual charity event.

Johnny is happily married to his wife Kim, and is the proud father of Gressette, William, and Anne Felder, and proud stepfather of Xan, Claudia, and Harriet Dubose.

South Carolina personal injury and business litigation attorney you can trust to make things right

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • South Carolina, 1994
  • U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 1994
  • U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit

Education

Professional Associations

Congratulations to Johnny Felder & Steve Welch on Their Membership to ABOTA!