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Allison Aiken Hanna

 

The Tower at
1301 Gervais Street, Suite 900
PO Box 11367
Columbia, SC 29211-1367

 

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(803) 254-4035
(803) 771-4422
ahanna@childs-halligan.net


Legal Assistant:
Lonna Coufal E-mail: lcoufal@childs-halligan.net


Allison was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1998. While in college, Allison was a Carolina Scholar and was admitted into Phi Beta Kappa; while in law school, Allison was a Carolina Legal Scholar.

Practice Areas:

Education Law
Labor and Employment
Constitutional Law
Litigation

Allison works in all areas of school law, with an emphasis on personnel, student matters, and tort litigation.

Allison has handled numerous student discipline hearings held before hearing officers and/or school boards. She has also handled teacher dismissal hearings before school boards, as well as represented school districts in complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the State Human Affairs Commission. Allison has also successfully defended school districts in jury trials for claims brought regarding such matters as student assaults and injuries.

Bar Admissions:

South Carolina, 1998
U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, 1999
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2000

Education:

University of South Carolina, with honors from the South Carolina Honors 
    College, B.A., Government and International Studies, magna cum laude, 1995
University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1998

Phi Beta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Mortar Board
Carolina Scholar
Carolina Legal Scholar

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Bar Association
South Carolina Bar 
Richland County Bar Association 
South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
NSBA Council of School Attorneys
SCSBA Council of School Attorneys

Personal Background:

Allison is a graduate of Anderson County School District Five schools, where she was a National Merit Scholar. Allison and her husband have three children, two attend school in Richland School District One.

Born: Greenville, South Carolina, August 15

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