Mark Taylor Arden is a personal injury attorney for the law firm of Chappell, Smith & Arden, P.A.  He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1986 and was admitted to the South Carolina bar that same year.  Mark is a member of the South Carolina Association for Justice, and he practices in the areas of workers compensation, administrative law, litigation, and auto accidents in Columbia.  Mr. Arden also co-authored Advanced Workers’ Compensation in South Carolina (National Business Institute, Inc. 1997).

Areas of Practice:
Workers Compensation
Administrative Law
Columbia Car Accident Litigation
Personal injury

Admitted to Practice:
South Carolina, 1986
U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, 1987
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1987
U.S. Supreme Court, 1991

Education:
University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, 1986
University of South Carolina, BA, 1983

Professional memberships:
American Bar Association
South Carolina Association for Justice (formerly the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association)
Injured Workers’ Advocates (formerly the Association of South Carolina Claimant Attorneys for Workers’ Compensation)
South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association

Colleagues:
Mark Chappell
William L. Smith, II