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Joseph M. "Mickey" Epting

Senior Counsel

Phone: (803) 227-0284
Fax: (803) 781-5382
mepting@eptinggillis.com

Education
  • The Citadel, B.A. History, 1964
  • University of South Carolina, JD, 1969
Bar Admissions
  • South Carolina Bar
  • U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
  • U. S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Civic & Professional Membership
  • South Carolina Bar Association; Long range planning committee, 1999-2000, Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee; Resolution of Fee Disputes Board, 1994-99; Lawyer Referral Committee
  • South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Lexington Bar Association
  • Rotary International.
  • Chief Judge, Irmo Municipal Court, 1989 � present
  • Chief Judge, Chapin Municipal Court, 1986 - 1997
  • Special delegate to the American Bar Association Conference of Special Court Judges, 1999
  • Lake Murray-Irmo Rotary Club
  • Citadel Alumni Association

Mickey Epting is a senior counsel with Epting & Gillis, LLC. He focuses his practice on estate probate and planning and litigation involving real estate. He founded the Epting Law Firm in 1973. That firm subsequently became what is now known as Epting & Gillis, LLC.

In the last 38 years he has successfully represented South Carolina families who have lost loved ones in boating accidents and as a result of dangerous and defective products. He has represented landowners in government land takings or condemnation cases and land nuisance cases. He has also represented many small businesses or family businesses in commercial litigation involving distribution agreements, contracts, fraud, and bad faith litigation. Mr. Epting is licensed in South Carolina and is admitted to practice in the United State District court for the District of South Carolina, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the state courts in the State of South Carolina.

He is married to the former Nancy Godwin of Charlotte, North Carolina. They have a son, Joe and a daughter, Kristin. He is a member of Washington Street United Methodist Church.