Undefeated in the Courtroom
Brandi Hinton's first experience arguing cases took place before she even had a license to practice, when she participated on the Moot Court Board and Student Trial Lawyers Association at Charleston School of Law. She began her career clerking for the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough in Charleston County at the height of the foreclosure crisis, on a docket full of people facing the worst financial stretch of their lives.
She then spent eight years at the 13th Circuit Solicitor's Office in Greenville and Pickens counties, where she handled thousands of cases and tried more than 25 of them, including armed robbery, burglary, domestic violence, drug trafficking, bank robbery, and fraud.
Brandi later served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina alongside her partner, Sloan Ellis. She was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, where she prosecuted large-scale drug trafficking. She also handled racketeering cases, known as RICO, along with the violent crimes charged alongside them, and complex financial cases including wire fraud, money laundering, and Paycheck Protection Program fraud. She was one of the prosecutors on the largest federal racketeering conspiracy in South Carolina history, and she received the 2021 U.S. Attorney's Award for excellence in prosecution.
She has worked alongside Sloan Ellis at nearly every stage of her career, and she knows exactly how to prepare a case for trial. Having tried cases from the other side, she also knows which ones a prosecutor is ready to put in front of a jury and which ones they would rather resolve. This is how she approaches every case she takes.