Camden, South Carolina · Serving clients statewide
General counsel to South Carolina local governments.
Counties, towns, and special purpose districts across South Carolina call Tommy Morgan when they need an answer they can act on. Ordinances, council meetings, personnel, procurement, FOIA, land use, law enforcement, lawsuits, investigations, and whatever comes up at 4:30 on a Friday. He has served as county attorney, assistant county attorney, town attorney, and hearing officer for local governments across the state.
The calls that come in
What clients call about
- Something blew up Friday afternoon and council meets Monday night.
- Someone walked in with a camera claiming a right to record everything, and now there’s a confrontation and maybe a lawsuit.
- Allegations of misuse of funds that require outside investigation.
- A citizens group is threatening to sue over a land use decision.
- Hundreds of miles of dirt roads, and questions about what the government owns or controls.
- A FOIA request that looks like a trap.
- A personnel matter nobody wants to touch.
- A bond deal or a debt limit question that has to be right the first time.
It’s not just what you pay me to know.
Tommy Morgan
It’s what you pay me who to know.
Two ways to work together
Your county or town attorney, or back up for yours
Be your county or town attorney
Day to day general counsel for your administrator and council or mayor.
Back up your county or town attorney
Project and overflow help for the lawyer who already has the seat, whether that’s one big matter or the backlog.
Meet Tommy
H. Thomas “Tommy” Morgan, Jr.
More than twenty years on the government side of the table, as county attorney, assistant county attorney, town attorney, and hearing officer. Based in Camden and easy to reach.