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Shirley M. Fawley

	The Tower at 1301 Gervais Street, Suite 900 PO Box 11367 Columbia, SC 29211-1367	Phone: Fax: E-mail:	(803) 254-4035 (803) 771-4422 sfawley@childs-halligan.net
	Legal Assistant:
	Judy Venters	E-mail:	jventers@childs-halligan.net

Shirley was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1996 and to the District of Columbia Bar in 1998, and to practice before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2000. While in law school, Shirley served as Managing Editor of the University of Dayton Law Review, and was selected as Outstanding Female Graduate and as a member of the Dominick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court team. She has practiced with the firm since her graduation from law school. Shirley is a member of the NSBA Council of School Attorneys and the South Carolina Council of School Attorneys. She has served as an associate professor for the University of South Carolina teaching courses on school personnel, the principalship, and the superintendency.

Practice Areas:

Civil Rights
Education Law
Labor and Employment

Shirley practices in all areas of school law, with an emphasis on personnel, board-superintendent issues, student matters including student discipline, policy development, and procurement. She also concentrates on appellate work, both in state and federal courts.

Shirley has handled all types of personnel grievances and teacher dismissal hearings before school boards. She has counseled districts on personnel and student matters in the early stages prior to litigation and assisted many school districts in revising and updating policy manuals. Additionally, Shirley has worked with school boards in conducting numerous superintendent evaluations and in handling other board-superintendent matters. She has also negotiated and prepared construction contracts and related documents, as well as handled bid protests and appeals against the awarding of requests for proposals.

Bar Admissions:

South Carolina, 1996
District of Columbia, 1998
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2000

Education:

Bob Jones University, B.S., Home Economics, 1973
Winthrop College, M.A.T., Family and Child Development, 1974
University of South Carolina, Ph.D., Elementary Education, 1979
University of Dayton School of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 1996

Professional Associations and Memberships:

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

Personal Background:

Shirley is a graduate of Richland County School District Two Schools. Prior to attending law school, she served as an assistant superintendent and principal in several public school districts in South Carolina, an administrator at the State Department of Education, and a part-time professor at the University of South Carolina. Shirley has three sisters one of whom currently teaches in the public schools of South Carolina and two have retired from the same.

Born: Tokyo, Japan, September 16

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