Grant Burnette LeFever

Special Counsel

Grant Burnette LeFever

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A savvy employment and education law attorney, Grant Burnette LeFever is dedicated to fighting for employees, students, educators, and families throughout South Carolina. She carries forward a family legacy of advancing social justice and protecting individual rights.

Grant’s employment law practice encompasses a broad range of workplace issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace accommodations, wage disputes, and contracts. In her education law practice, Grant helps students and educators in K-12 and higher education navigate complex matters involving special education, student discipline, teacher discipline, Title IX, tenure and promotion, and academic employment issues.

Grant also practices family law and has long been part of the legal team battling to defend healthcare rights in South Carolina, including reproductive freedom.

Grant’s work in a number of practice areas has been honored frequently, including in peer-reviewed publications such as South Carolina Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America®. “The National Law Journal” honored her as one of three Plaintiffs’ Attorney Trailblazers at the firm in 2023.

Grant served as editor for the fifth edition supplement and as associate editor for the fifth edition of Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers, the state’s go-to guide for employment lawyers. She also authored the chapter “Protections for Pregnancy, Lactation, and Related Conditions” for the book.

Grant graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she earned CALI awards in S.C. workers’ compensation law and legal research, analysis and writing, served as co-president of the Pro Bono Board, and was a student attorney at the school’s Education Rights Clinic. She also earned a master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and graduated cum laude from Presbyterian College with a bachelor’s degree in English and History.

A Columbia native, Grant and her husband recently purchased and renovated her childhood home, where they live with their two young children and goldendoodle.

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
  • South Carolina

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2018
    • President’s Honor Roll
    • Dean’s List
  • University of Mississippi, Master of Arts in Southern Studies, 2016
  • Presbyterian College, Bachelor of Arts in English and History, Southern Studies minor, cum laude, 2013
    • President’s List
    • Dean’s List
    • University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, Fall Semester, 2011

  • South Carolina Bar
    • Employment and Labor Law Section, CLE Coordinator
    • Education Law Committee, Chair
    • Young Lawyers Division
  • Richland County Bar Association
  • South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
  • Presbyterian College Alumni Board of Directors
  • Presbyterian College Midlands Alumni Chapter, Service Chair
  • The Period Project, Board Member
  • United Way of the Midlands Young Leaders Society
  • Pro Bono Board
  • Richland County Probate Court Special Visitors Program
  • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program

  • Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers, Fifth Edition Supplement, Editor; Author, “Protections for Pregnancy, Lactation, and Related Conditions” chapter.
  • Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers, Fifth Edition, Assistant Editor, Co-Author, 2019.
  •  “Convergence of Employment Laws and the Workers’ Compensation Act,” Co-Author, in The Law of Workers’ Compensation Insurance in South Carolina, Seventh Edition, 2019.
  • “Furling the South Carolina Confederate Battle Flag: Political Expediency or Cultural Change?,” Master’s Thesis, Defended and Published, August 2016.
  • “Parasites, and Rabies, and Retractors, OH MY!: Female Bodily Horror in David Cronenberg’s Films,” Senior Capstone in English, presented at Presbyterian College Honors Day, April 2013.
  • “LSD: An Icon of 1960s Popular Culture,” Senior Capstone in History, presented at Presbyterian College Honors Day, April 2012.

  • “When Umbrella Policies Fail: Lessons From Early PWFA & PUMP Act Cases,” Columbia SHRM Legal Workshop, April 2026
  • “Parental Protections in the Workplace,” Recent Developments in Employment Law Mid-Year CLE, May 2023
  • Moderator, “Wise Beyond Their Years: Secrets to Success,” 2025 Employment Law Mid-Year CLE, May 2025
  • Panelist for a discussion of new legislation and its impact on the workforce, including the PUMP Act and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, NC/SC Labor and Employment Law Conference, 2023.
  • Panelist, “Navigating the Post-Dobbs Future,” sponsored by University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law Journal of Law and Public Policy, March 2, 2023.
  • Presenter, “The United States Supreme Court and the Future of Civil Liberties in America,” South Carolina Bar Convention CLE, January 2023.