S. Randall Hood

South Carolina injury attorney S. Randall Hood is a founding partner at McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC. Randy has dedicated his legal career to helping those who have suffered serious injuries or lost loved ones due to negligent conduct. Randy is the former President of the South Carolina Association for Justice. He has been certified by the American Board of Professional Liability as a specialist in Medical Malpractice Law which is recognized by the South Carolina Bar. Randy has also been awarded the distinction of being a "Super Lawyer" 10 times in the last decade. He has over 25 years of experience helping injured people fight back against corporations, hospitals and wrong-doers.

In 2018, Randy was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization of trial attorneys dedicated to protecting the civil justice system. He is also a member of the American Association of Justice, Melvin Belli Society and National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2021, Randy was part of the legal team which reached a landmark settlement of $88 million for the Charleston Nine. This settlement is believed to be the largest civil rights settlement for individual cases in US History.

Randy was born in Macon, Georgia and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina when he was 12 years old. He graduated college in 1985 and worked in retail management for four years before going to the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1989, graduating in May 1992. He began practicing in the area of personal injury with a law firm that would become known as McMehan, Weidner, Hood & Jackson, staying with that firm until 1997, when he began practicing law with James C. Anders, P.A. and Associates until 2003. At that time, Randy Hood and Chad McGowan formed the firm that would come to be known as McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC.