Bio
LEGAL CAREER
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Badge Humphries 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 currently serves 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 currently as the Section Delegate to the South Carolina Bar’s House of Delegates. 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 licensed to practice in Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
- Member Attorney, Griffin Humphries LLC, 2020 to present
- Partner, Lewis Babcock L.L.P., 2016-2019
- Partner, Lewis, Babcock & Griffin L.L.P., 2014-2016
- Attorney, Motley Rice LLC, 2002-2005, 2007-2014
- Director of Land Protection, South Atlantic Region, Ducks Unlimited, 2005-2007
- Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Honorable Thad Heartfield, 2001-2002
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Badge Humphries 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 currently serves 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 currently as the Section Delegate to the South Carolina Bar’s House of Delegates. 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 licensed to practice in Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
- South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ)
- Ninth Judicial Circuit Representative to the Board of Governors, 2018 to present
- Consumer and Securities Law Section Chair, 2011-2017
- Board of Governors 2014 President’s Award Recipient
- South Carolina Bar, Torts and Insurance Practices Section
- Section Delegate to the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates, July 2022 to present
- Section Council Chair, July 2020-July 2021
- Section Council Member, 2018 to present
- American Association for Justice (AAJ)
- The National Trial Lawyers
- James L. Petigru American Inn of Court
- Charleston County Bar Association
- Richland County Bar Association
- Public Justice
Experience
- 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.)
- Kuffel v. C.R. Bard, Inc. , Univar USA Inc. et al., Case No. 2017-CP-08-02265 (Berkeley Cnty. Ct. Com. Pleas)
- CentraArchy Restaurant Management Company v. Angelo et al., C/A No. 3:17-cv-3275-MBS (D.S.C.) (case settled Feb. 19, 2021; order entered Mar. 31. 2021); 806 Fed. Appx. 176 (4th Cir. Mar. 25, 2020)
- Wellin on behalf of the Estate of Wellin v. Farace, Nixon Peabody, LLP et al., C/A No. 2:16-cv-00414-DCN (D.S.C.); No. 20-1120, 2021 WL 5445968 (4th Cir. Nov. 22, 2021)
- Schnur v. Equity Trust Company, Case No. 14CV184510 (Lorain Cnty. Ct. Com. Pleas, OH)
- 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.).
- 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).
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Beard v. Dixon Hughes, PLLC, No. 2010-CP-08-0776 (Berkeley Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl., 9th Judicial Cir. Aug. 2, 2011)
- 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
- Mercier v. Whittle (regarding The South Financial Group, Inc. shareholder derivative action), No. 2008-CP-23-8395 (Greenville Cnty. Ct. Com. Pl., Bus. Ct.)
- In re Lear Corp. Shareholder Litigation, No. 2728-N, 926 A.2d 94 (Del. Ch. 2007)