Badge Humphries
Top rated Securities Litigation attorney in Sullivans Island, South Carolina
Griffin Humphries LLC
Practice areas: Securities Litigation, General Litigation, Products Liability
Licensed in South Carolina since: 2001
Education: The University of Texas School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2023 - 2026 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2012 - 2013 Call today:
843-883-7424
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2113 Middle StSuite 305
Sullivans Island, SC 29482 Visit website
Badge Humphries is a partner at the law firm Griffin Humphries LLC located in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. He focuses his practice on business litigation, estate litigation, legal malpractice, securities fraud, shareholder litigation, product liability and personal injury cases. In so doing, he represents individuals and institutional investors in securities fraud and shareholder litigation, plaintiffs in products liability and other personal injury cases, and parties engaged in business disputes. In representing investors in public companies, he has served as lead counsel in cases alleging securities fraud or breach of fiduciary duty against defendants in the financial, pharmaceutical/medical device, healthcare, mining, and consumer retail sectors. Badge also regularly handles other types of complex litigation on behalf of individual plaintiffs, particularly cases involving alleged defective products and professional malpractice.
Badge has been an invited guest speaker at numerous conferences across the country and consulted on a variety of legal matters by various news outlets and publications. He has served on the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) and has received a SCAJ President’s Award for his service to the organization. He has also served on the South Carolina Bar’s Torts and Insurance Practice Section Council, serving as the Chair from July 2019 to July 2020 and as the Section Delegate to the South Carolina Bar’s House of Delegates from July 2020 to July 2021. Since 2017, Badge has been recognized by Best Lawyers, and since 2020, he has been named one of the top 100 lawyers in the state of South Carolina by The National Trial Lawyers. He is also recognized as a Super Lawyer. He is licensed to practice in Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, and South Carolina and admitted to practice in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits and the United States District Courts for the South Carolina, and the Eastern, Western, and Southern Districts of Texas, Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Kentucky, and the Northern District of Georgia.
Practice areas
Securities Litigation, General Litigation, Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff- 40% Securities Litigation
- 30% General Litigation
- 30% Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2001, South Carolina
Professional Webpage: https://www.griffinhumphries.com/badge-humphries
Bar / Professional Activity
- Board of Governors, South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ), Consumer and Securities Law Section Chair
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 2014
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, 2014
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (General Bar), 2013
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2010
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2009
- U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 2002
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2010
- Georgia, 2014
- Kentucky, 2009
- South Carolina, 2004
- Texas, 2001
- James L. Petigru American Inn of Court
- American Association for Justice (AAJ)
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- South Carolina Public Interest Foundation et al. v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General for the State of South Carolina et al., Case No. 2020-CP-40-04603 (Richland Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl.)
- In re Lear Corp. Shareholder Litigation, No. 2728-N, 926 A.2d 94 (Del. Ch. 2007)
- Mercier v. Whittle (regarding The South Financial Group, Inc. shareholder derivative action), No. 2008-CP-23-8395 (Greenville Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl., Bus. Ct.)
- Stevenson v. Kavanaugh (regarding Force Protection, Inc. shareholder derivative action), No. 2008-CP-10-1735, (Charleston Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl., Bus. Ct. Feb. 10, 2009), order available at https://www.judicial.state.sc.us/courtOrders/displayOrder.cfm?orderNo=2009-02-10-01
- Beard v. Dixon Hughes, PLLC, No. 2010-CP-08-0776 (Berkeley Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl., 9th Judicial Cir. Aug. 2, 2011)
- Hays v. Pearlman, C/A No. 2:10-cv-01135-DCN (D.S.C.), 2010 WL 4510956 (D.S.C. Nov. 2, 2010) (order denying MTD); (case settled June 1, 2011; order entered Oct. 24, 2011)
- Brown v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., C/A No. 2:07-cv-03852-DCN, 2009 WL 4809426 (D.S.C. Dec. 9, 2009) amended, C/A No. 2:07-CV-03852DCN, 2010 WL 424031 (D.S.C. Feb. 1, 2010) (class cert order) (Non-ETC Subclass settled Sept. 17, 2010, order entered Nov. 9, 2010; ETC Subclass settled June 1, 2011, order entered July 27, 2011)
- City of Sterling Heights General Employees’ Retirement System v. Hospira, No. 11-C-8332, 2013 WL 566805 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 13, 2013) (order re MTD) (case settled for $60 million in March 2014)
- Hill v. State Street Corp., C/A No. 1:09-cv-12146-NG, 2011 WL 3420439 (D. Mass. Aug. 3, 2011) (order denying MTD); (case settled for $60 million in July 2014)
- California State Teachers’ Retirement System v. Blankenship, No. 10-C-715 (W. Va. Cir. Ct.); and Manville Personal Injury Trust v. Blankenship, No. 07-C- 1333 (W. Va. Cir. Ct.) (regarding Massey Energy Co.).
Representative Clients
- California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund, Amalgamated Bank.
Special Licenses / Certifications
- Federal Bar Admissions: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. District Courts for the District of South Carolina, Western District of Kentucky, Eastern District of Michigan, Eastern District of Texas, and Southern District of Texas.
- State Bar Licenses: South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, and West Virginia
Educational Background
- B.A. summa cum laude, Tulane University, 1996
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Ponzi Victims’ Third-Party Claims: Law and Practice, The Justice Bulletin, Summer 2014
- 2/11 – Opal Financial Group’s Investment Education Symposium in Conjunction with the Louisiana Trustee Education Council (LATEC) – Legal Issues in Equity Investing (New Orleans, LA Feb. 28, 2011)
- 6/11 – National Summit on the Future of Fiduciary Responsibility – Panelist, Fiduciary Responsibilities: The New Role of Institutional Investors as Private Regulators and Agents of Change (New York, NY – June 9, 2011)
- 8/12 – SCAJ Annual Convention – Moderator, Fee Awards: Ethics and Practice (with Senior U.S. District Judge Duffy, Chief Judge Few of the S.C. Court of Appeals, Cam Lewis, Jim Griffin, and William Applegate) (Hilton Head, SC Aug. 2, 2012)
- 8/12 – Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, Annual Conference 2012 – Asbestos and Securities Litigation Developments (San Diego, CA Aug. 23, 2011)
- 3/12 – Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS) Annual Conference – Panelist, The Importance of Litigation in Protecting Plan Assets (Corpus Christi, TX Mar. 27, 2012)
- 8/13 – SCAJ Annual Convention – Moderator, Arbitrate This: A Compelling Panel Discussion (with Senior U.S. District Judge Norton, S.C. Circuit Judge Newman, Bill Narwold, Brian Boger, and Stephen Suggs) (Hilton Head, SC Aug. 1, 2013)
- 1/13 – Opal Financial Group, Public Funds Summit – Panelist, Legal Issues Facing Public Pensions (Scottsdale, AZ Jan. 9, 2013)
- 8/14 – SCAJ Annual Convention – Halliburton and Chadbourne: All You Need To Know (Hilton Head, SC Aug. 7, 2014)
- 12/20 – SCAJ Advanced Trial Lawyers College (Auto Torts XLIII) – 30(b)(6) Strategies (virtual Dec. 3, 2020)
- 1/21 – South Carolina Bar, Torts and Insurance Practices Section Seminar, Advanced Deposition Tactics, Moderator (virtual, Jan. 21, 2021)
- Lectures: Recently presented for South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ), Texas Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (TEXPERS), Opal Financial Group's Investment Education Symposium in Conjunction with the Louisiana Trustee Education Council (LATEC), and the National Association of State Treasurers.
Honors
- President's Award Recipient, South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) , 2014
- Since 2020, The National Trial Lawyers has recognized Badge as one of the top 100 lawyers in the State of South Carolina., Top 100 Lawyer in the State of South Carolina, The National Trial Lawyers
- Since 2017, Best Lawyers has recognized Badge as a Best Lawyer., Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers
- South Carolina Super Lawyers® has recognized as a Super Lawyer in 2023, 2024, and 2025 and as a Rising Star in 2012 and 2013., Current Super Lawyer and Former Rising Star, Super Lawyers
Industry Groups
- Asbestos
- Banking
- Institutional Investors
- Medical Device Manufacturers
- Mining
- Pharmaceutical
- Securities Broker-Dealers
Office location for Badge Humphries
2113 Middle St
Suite 305
Sullivans Island, SC 29482
Phone: 843-883-7424
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2023 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2012 - 2013
