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Wallace K. Lightsey serves as President-Elect of the Foundation. Lightsey is a partner with Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, PA and has been in practice for 24 years. Most of his work consists of trial and appellate litigation, with a primary emphasis on commercial, corporate and news media litigation. He also has an active practice litigating disputes over intellectual property – such as trademark, copyright, and trade secrets – and in recent years has been lead counsel in copyright lawsuits involving close to a billion dollars at issue. He graduated from Duke University summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated with honors. From 1997-2004, Lightsey served as Chairman of the South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct. In 2004, he was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in recognition of his substantial jury trial experience.
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