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Stephanie Sandifer

Stephanie Ramia Sandifer

Partner
ssandifer@ycrlaw.com
843-724-6627
Stephanie Ramia Sandifer practices primarily with the firm’s Employment and Labor Law practice group. Stephanie assists both public and private employers in employment matters, including day-to-day employment issues, federal and state litigation, as well as proceedings before administrative agencies such as the EEOC, SC Human Affairs Commission, and the NLRB. Stephanie also has experience in representing clients in corporate dispute matters, asset purchase deals, personal injury, premises liability/professional liability matters. Prior to joining Clement Rivers, she served as a Staff Attorney for the South Carolina Supreme Court. In law school, Stephanie was the Research Editor of the Southeastern Environmental Law Journal and served as a representative for the Student Bar Association. She also worked for the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee and a Columbia law firm. Before law school, she worked for a large international business and litigation law firm in Washington, DC.

Admitted to Practice

South Carolina, 2011
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2014
U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2016

Education

University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2011
Dickinson College, with a B.A. in Political Science, 2006

Memberships and Activities

South Carolina Bar Association
Federal Bar Association, South Carolina Chapter (Board Member 2020 – present)
Charleston County Bar Association
American Bar Association
SC Women Lawyers Association
Junior League of Charleston
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Prior Community Outreach Center & Service Board Member

Publications & Lectures

  • Co-Author, “Special Problems Relating To Race Discrimination” Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers, Fifth Ed. Volume II, Chapter 22 (2019)
  • Co-Author, “Clarifying the Public Policy Exception to At-Will Employment”, SCDTAA’s Defense Line (Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring 2015)
  • Co-Author, “What to Expect When Employees are Expecting”, SCDTAA’s Defense Line (Vol. 42, No. 2, Winter 2014)
  • “Smart Growth: the Toolbox for Addressing Sprawling Development in Coastal South Carolina,” 19 Southeastern Envtl. L.J. 173 (2010)