Practice Areas
- Appellate Practice
- Damages Mitigation
- Dental Litigation
- Long-Term & Elder Care Litigation
- Medical Malpractice Defense
- Pharmacy Litigation
- Premises Liability
- Products Liability
Trip is a partner in the firm's Greenville, South Carolina office. Since 2007, he has represented hospitals, physicians, and long-term care providers in medical malpractice litigation in the state and federal courts of South Carolina, including high-exposure cases. He has represented physicians in nearly every area of specialty, including anesthesia and pain management, cardiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, surgery and urology, and has obtained numerous defense verdicts and dismissals, many in cases alleging wrongful death.
Trip also represents physicians in investigations and proceedings of the South Carolina Medical Board and regularly advises hospitals and medical practices on compliance with state and federal laws regarding peer review, HIPAA, personnel, and other matters.
In addition to his work in the healthcare field, Trip has broad experience in employment law, business litigation, and other complex litigation with the firm Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment firms in the United States, where he handled cases in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arizona involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, wage and hour disputes, non-compete covenants, trade secrets, construction and commercial litigation, and engineering malpractice. Trip has frequently counseled Fortune 500 companies on how to comply with complex state and federal wage and hour laws, the ADA, and other employment laws.
Trip has been repeatedly recognized by his peers as a South Carolina Super Lawyer or Rising Star and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2018 in the areas of medical malpractice and healthcare litigation.
B.A., Business Administration, Furman University (1998)
Master of Divinity, Reformed Theological Seminary (2002)
Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.), Yale Divinity School (2004)
J.D., University of Georgia School of Law (2007)
- Defense of hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and physicians in medical malpractice actions involving nearly every major medical specialty
- Defense of companies and individuals in employment litigation, commercial litigations, and other complex civil litigation
- Defense verdict for urologic surgeon in wrongful death case involving death of a male patient due to complications of a procedure to remove bladder tumors
- Secured voluntary dismissal of trauma surgeon in wrongful death case in which a young man died in the emergency department from internal injuries
- Defense verdict for obstetrician in wrongful death case involving fetal demise at 32 weeks of pregnancy
- Defense verdict for family practice doctor in wrongful death case involving alleged failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism in a 21-year-old female patient
- Secured the voluntary dismissal of orthopedic surgeon sued by a female patient who went blind after a total hip replacement due to postoperative hypotension and an extremely rare occurrence of acute ischemic optic neuropathy (AION)
- Defense verdict for obstetrician in wrongful death case alleging failure to timely deliver infant by emergency cesarean section which allegedly led to severe cerebral palsy and eventual death
- Secured the dismissal of a large regional hospital in case involving a female patient who suffered respiratory distress and hypoxia after a total knee replacement
- Defense verdict for general surgeon in wrongful death case where a 43-year-old man underwent a sleeve gastrectomy procedure for weight loss and died a month later of complications resulting therefrom.
- Prevailed on a motion to dismiss in a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 against a hospital, a nurse practitioner and a physician, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, disability and gender, and a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment
- Successful representation of physicians in licensing matters before the South Carolina Medical Board
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer review rating
- Super Lawyers, 2020-2022
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2015-2017
- Best Lawyers in America, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, 2018-2023
- Best Lawyers in America, Litigation – Healthcare, 2018-2023
- Best Law Firms, U.S. News & World Report/Best Lawyers, 2021 – 2023
- Legal Elite 2020 – 2022 Greenville Business Magazine
- South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy, 2014
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Greenville Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- State Bar of South Carolina
- U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit