Lester & Hendrix

About this office:

Mr. Lester served as the Chairman of the Family Law Section of the South Carolina Bar and served as the Section Delegate to the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates. He served as Chairman of the Family Law Committee of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association and is currently a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and South Carolina Trial Association where he has served on the Board. He is also former chairman of the Richland and Lexington County Bar Family Law Committees. He also taught the Family Law portion of the South Carolina Bar Review course which is taught twice each year to lawyers preparing for the South Carolina Bar exam. Mr. Lester is the former Chairman of the South Carolina Child Support Guidelines Sub-committee and has served on all of the update committees.

Mr. Lester has written and continues to write on various issues dealing with South Carolina Family Law in addition to speaking and coordinating numerous Continuing Legal Education and Judicial Continuing Legal Education Seminars locally and nationally. Mr. Lester served as the chairman of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Children Committee and served as a member of the five member Same-Sex Marriage Committee of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is also a member of the American Bar Association Same-Sex Marriage Committee and Products Development Committee. He is the Author of the Chapter on Protection of Marriage by Statute and Constitutions on the American Bar Association's White Paper on Same-Sex issues.

Catherine Hendrix is a partner in the law firm of the Lester and Hendrix. She was a paralegal for ten years in the area of family law before attending law school at the University of South Carolina. She was a student of Mr. Lester at the ABA Family Law Trial Institute in Houston prior to joining Mr. Lester's law firm.