SC Lawyers Weekly lists Burnette Shutt & McDaniel as a top women-led law firm
COLUMBIA, SC – Burnette Shutt & McDaniel is honored to be highlighted in “In the Lead: Best Women-Led Law Firms,” a special section of South Carolina Lawyers Weekly.
Selection criteria include demonstrated success in the legal community, recognition as a great workplace, strong community engagement, and a record of efforts to help women thrive professionally.
Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt, and Kathleen McDaniel came together to create the firm in 2017. At its founding, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel consisted of all women attorneys. Over the years, the firm has diversified to include male partners and special counsels.
Regardless of their gender, every attorney at the firm is committed to the goal of moving law forward for clients and for society.
The firm’s high-profile cases speak to that. Over the years, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel has fought for marriage equality, reproductive healthcare rights and to protect the rights of people incarcerated at Richland County’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Those lawsuits have had an impact on the lives of thousands in South Carolina.
The attorneys also are committed to protecting individuals from discrimination, such as a police chief who was fired after a city leader’s homophobic tirade and a county worker dismissed after making allegations of government fraud.
Employment law and civil rights law remain a major emphasis at Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, including issues such as sex, race, disability, and LGBTQ discrimination; police misconduct; housing discrimination; and more. The firm’s attorneys also practice employee benefits law under ERISA, government law, education law, family law, and environmental law.
The firm’s attorneys are leaders in the community and in the legal profession. Nekki Shutt currently is president-elect of the South Carolina Bar, and Janet E. Rhodes chairs the bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section.