BROWN & VERNADO - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Paralegal
• Senior Real Estate Paralegal and Office Manager

Jan L. Smith is our Senior Real Estate Paralegal and Office Manager with over 40 years of experience in the Real Estate field. She handles all aspects of Residential and Commercial closings for the firm. Practice Areas Real Estate and Land Use

Job Titles:

• Member of the South Carolina Bar Association
• Support Staff

Jay's primary focus is on transactional work and manages our real estate division. Over his career, Jay has worked closely with a number of national builder accounts as primary closing counsel and is familiar with the closing practices and demand for high-volume periods such as fiscal quarter and year ends. Practice Areas Real Estate and Land Use Before forming Brown Law Group, Jay was a Partner in Brown & Varnado LLC, managing attorney for Buist, Byars & Taylor, LLC, and owned his own firm in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He began his career clerking for the Hon. Irvin G. Condon in the Charleston Probate Court. Raised in Mount Pleasant, Jay holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Clemson University and a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the State Courts of South Carolina, the Federal District Court, the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Jay is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association and the Charleston County Bar Association. He is active in the community as a State Board Chairman and Chairman of the East Cooper Chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association and as Past President of the Mount Pleasant Sertoma Club. He lives in Mount Pleasant with wife, Margaret and their four children.