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About Riley Cranford
Riley Cranford, Esq. is an Attorney at Elrod Pope Accident & Injury Attorneys, focusing on personal injury matters. She grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and relocated to Rock Hill after marrying Will Cranford, a local dentist. With approximately six years of legal experience, she practiced at regional defense firms before joining Elrod Pope.
Cranford has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Insurance Law (2023-2026) and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants (2023-2026), as a South Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star in Civil Litigation Defense (2024), and on Columbia Business Monthly's Legal Elite of the Midlands lists for Construction (2023), Insurance (2023), and Personal Injury (2023, 2025).
She is a member of the York County Bar Association, Richland County Bar Association, South Carolina Association for Justice, South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, and the Junior League of Columbia.
She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2019 and her Bachelor of Science from the University of South Carolina in 2016. She is admitted to the State Bar of South Carolina, the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Elrod Pope
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A South Carolina warehouse worker suffered permanent lumbar spinal injuries when a commercial trailer's improperly installed landing gear buckled during loading, sending a jury to award Anthony Avery $7.48 million in compensatory damages and $2.8 million in punitive damages against MG Logistics, Inc.
A construction worker in a marked Charlotte crosswalk was hit by a left-turning construction truck on August 29, 2022, and suffered a traumatic brain injury with multiple skull fractures. The defense blamed him for failing to keep a lookout, but reconstruction showed the truck at 18 mph with no braking. At a July 29, 2025 mediation the case resolved for $6 million, all available liability insurance limits.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
