Carolyn Cason Matthews

Carolyn is an attorney with Bell Legal Group, focusing primarily on mass tort and complex civil litigation.  She received her undergraduate degree from Furman University, and her law degree from the University of South Carolina, where she was a member of Wig and Robe. 

Carolyn began her legal career as the first woman Staff Attorney at the South Carolina Supreme Court, and then served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice of the S. C. Supreme Court George T. Gregory, Jr.  She then became an Assistant Attorney General under Attorneys General Dan McLeod and Travis Medlock.  She argued more than 80 cases solo before the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Carolyn next served as Counsel to the South Carolina House of Representatives, chaired by Representative and later Speaker of the House and Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins. She then entered private practice, becoming a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough before being elected a statewide Administrative Law Judge by the S. C. General Assembly.  Carolyn served for 16 years, trying cases and hearing appeals from state agencies. 

In 2023, Carolyn became a partner of the Bell Legal Group with her Las School classmate, Ed Bell.

Carolyn is married, with a daughter who received her law degree in the first graduating class of the Charleston School of Law and practices in Charleston.  She has two granddaughters and one grandson.