South Carolina Personal Injury Attorney
H. Patterson McWhirter

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H. Patterson McWhirter, founding member of McWhirter, Bellinger & Associates, P.A., with offices in Columbia, Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter, Aiken, Camden and Newberry, South Carolina, practices primarily in the areas of workers' compensation, medical malpractice, automobile accidents, tractor trailer wrecks, nursing home litigation, premises liability, product liability, wrongful death and all forms of personal injury cases.  He received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1969 and his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1973.  Mr. McWhirter was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1973 and the United States District Court, District of South Carolina, and United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in 1974.

He has been a lecturer for the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, the Judicial Conference of Supreme Court and Circuit Court Judges, the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Education Association, the South Carolina Public Defender Association and the South Carolina Bar Association.  He is a founding member of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and has served as president of South Carolina Public Defender Association, chairman of the South Carolina Bar's Criminal Law Section and chairman of the South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense Board of Directors.  Mr. McWhirter is a member of the American and South Carolina Trial Lawyers' Associations, the Association of South Carolina Claimant Attorneys for Workers' Compensation, the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Education Association, and the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Medical Seminar Advisory Board.

He is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, its Professional Responsibility Committee, its Torts and Insurance Practice and Workers' Compensation sections and the Lexington, Richland and Sumter County Bar Associations.  Mr. McWhirter is a former member of the South Carolina Bar Association House of Delegates.