Gerald Drayton Jowers Jr.

Mr. Jowers, a partner with Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC, can be reached at.  Since 2002 he has represented patients harmed by medical malpractice, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. He is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of South Carolina, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (2002), and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (2003). He has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in numerous states throughout the country.

Mr. Jowers graduated with honors from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1998. Afterwards, he entered the University of South Carolina School of Law and graduated in 2001. During law school he earned academic recognition on the Dean’s List and a Cali Award in The Constitution. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in November 2001. Following law school he began a judicial clerkship with a South Carolina Circuit Court Judge.

Over the years he has litigated cases in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Minnesota, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Arizona, Oregon and elsewhere.

He has been honored by his peers with an AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell rating and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America; the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (South Carolina); the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 (South Carolina). He is a July 2014 graduate of the invitation-only Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming. In 2015 he was awarded the Daily Report’s Verdicts Hall of Fame award in medical malpractice.

Mr. Jowers is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), American Association for Justice (AAJ) and the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ). He served on the Board of Governors for the South Carolina Association for Justice (SCAJ) from 2012 - 2018.