Virginia Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C.—Former 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge William “Billy”’ Wilkins is joining a Columbia law firm as a partner.

Nexsen Pruet board chairman Leighton Lord said Monday that Wilkins will work in the firm’s office in Greenville, Wilkins’ hometown.

Lord said Wilkins will work in the firm’s white collar crime, appellate advocacy and corporate compliance and crisis management groups.

Wilkins was chief judge of the appeals court in Richmond from 2003 until he went on senior status in July of last year. Wilkins had been named to the court in 1986. Wilkins served as a U.S. District judge from 1981 until 1986. He also was chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission when it developed the uniform guidelines used in federal courts.

Nexsen Pruet also has offices in Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Myrtle Beach and Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C.

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