shareholder at Rosen
Hagood. "The firm
is very proud of
her and pleased
that she is being
recognized for her
civic and professional
accomplishments."
Paylor focuses
her law practice in
the areas of complex
business and
commercial litigation,
employment litigation,
and school and
education law. She
joined Rosen Hagood
in 1982.
Paylor has a long
history of service within
the South Carolina
Bar and other legal
organizations, serving
as President of the
Bar in 2013-2014. She was the fourth
woman to ever hold that post.
Paylor has also served on the
Bar's Board of Governors since 2005,
including in the positions of secretary
and treasurer. In the past she has served
on the Conventions Committee and
Judicial Qualifications Committee, as
the secretary and treasurer of the Young
Lawyers Division, and as a member and
chair of the House of Delegates.
young women attorneys starting out in the
legal profession. Though the numbers have
changed, with many more female attorneys
now, the issues they face have not.
"Nothing is new. If they're going
through it, then I probably went through
it 25 years ago," she said. "I think the
practice of law is a great career and
profession, and I want women to come
in and have as good a time as I have had
doing that."
For her efforts mentoring women, as
well as many other civic and professional
contributions, Paylor recently received the
Platinum Compleat Lawyer Award from
her alma mater, the University of South
Carolina School of Law.
The award is given annually by the
law school's Alumni Council to alumni
who have demonstrated the highest level
of professional competence, ethics and
integrity throughout their professional
career.
The selection committee included
the Chief Justice of the South Carolina
Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of the
South Carolina Court of Appeals, the
President of the South Carolina Bar,
the Co-Chair of the Law School Alumni
Council, and the Dean of the Law School.
"Alice is very deserving of the
Compleat Lawyer Award," said Richard
American Bar Association's Commission
on Women in the Profession and was
elected to the Executive Council of the
National Conference of Bar Presidents.
Within Primerus, Paylor has been
responsible for organizing women's
cocktail receptions at the Primerus
Defense Institute Convocation. About
20 young women Paylor has mentored
remembers meeting at a restaurant with all of Charleston's women attorneys in 1977 when she
graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law. There were only eight of them.
Mentoring Young Women Attorneys