Zachary Griffin

Attorney at Elrod Pope
Rock Hill, SC3 years experience

About Zachary Griffin

Zachary D. Griffin, Esq. is an Attorney at Elrod Pope Accident & Injury Attorneys, focusing his practice on personal injury, workers' compensation, and medical malpractice. A Rock Hill native, he began working with the firm as an intern in 2012 and started his full legal practice there in 2021.

Griffin has prior experience as a law clerk at Schulte Roth & Zabel, a full-service firm handling complex acquisitions, litigation, and financings, and previously served at Elrod Pope as a law clerk and interim business development manager. After college, he worked with AmeriCorps VISTA, helping international and local nonprofits improve early childhood, primary, and secondary education in the Washington, D.C. area, and later worked on Tommy Pope's Congressional campaign before attending law school.

Griffin is recognized on the South Carolina Pro Bono Honor Roll and the North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society for serving clients through the V.A.L.O.R. Clinic and personal initiatives.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law and his Bachelor's degree in Political Science (with a minor in Business Administration) magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina in 2016. He is admitted to the State Bar of South Carolina.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Elrod Pope

These results are credited to Elrod Pope. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$10.28 millionVerdictTop 20 in South Carolina · #15

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.

U.S. District Court, D.S.C., Rock Hill Division · 2026Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

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.

Mecklenburg County Superior Court, Charlotte, North Carolina · 2025Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$2.95 millionVerdict

A federal jury awarded $2.95 million to the estate of David Allan Woods, a 50-year-old South Carolina detainee who died of gastrointestinal bleeding in 2010 after jail officers repeatedly ignored his deteriorating condition.

U.S. District Court, D.S.C. (Berkeley County) · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Duke University School of Law
B.A. in Political Science (Business Administration minor), magna cum laude
University of South Carolina
Undergraduate, 2016

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Carolina
South Carolina Pro Bono Honor Roll
North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society

Awards & recognition

Magna cum laude, University of South Carolina

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