Faculty Profile: Michael Ethridge

Mike, an experienced and well-regarded trial lawyer in South Carolina, has been a long-time advocate of lawyer well-being issues.

Mike currently holds an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell. Since 2014, he has been named as one of the Best Lawyers in America® for Insurance Law, Litigation and Construction. He is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Mike is an active member of both the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and the Claims Litigation Management Alliance (CLM). Mike is a CLM Litigation Management Professional and currently serves on CLM’s National Advisory Board for Construction Claims.

Mike is also very active in the State Bar of South Carolina and the American Bar Association. Mike is the founding chair of the South Carolina Bar’s Attorney Wellness Committee (http://discussions.scbar.org/public/wellness/contact.html) and speaks frequently on the issue of attorney wellness to judges and lawyers across the country. Mike was a recipient of the 2015 Leadership in Law Award by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the South Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association’s Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award and the 2017 Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’ s Community Leadership Award.

Mike authors a popular blog about lawyer well-being called Lawyers in Search of Soul (https://lawyersinsearchofsoul.com/author/methridge/).  In the past year, he left his long-time law firm to launch is own firm called Ethridge Law Group (http://ethridgelawgroup.com/our-attorneys/r-michael-ethridge/). He is actively trying to incorporate the science of well-being into the development of his successful firm.