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Car Accidents
Commuter rear-ends on the US-76 corridor, game-day chain reactions, left turns across highway traffic. Tom handles the insurance company so you can handle getting well.
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Personal injury · Pendleton, SC
Pendleton Personal Injury Lawyer
Hurt on US-76, in Clemson game-day traffic, or anywhere in the Upstate's original courthouse town? Tom Conits drives to Pendleton — you don't drive to Greenville. Free consultation, no fee unless we win.
- No fee unless we win
- House calls across the Upstate
- You get Tom's cell — not a case manager
- BBB Accredited, A+
- 20+ five-star Google reviews
- Ελληνικά — Greek spoken
The Upstate's original courthouse town
Personal Injury Attorney Serving Pendleton, South Carolina
Pendleton was a courthouse town before Anderson County existed. In April 1790, justices of the peace bought this land and laid out a village to serve as the seat of the old Pendleton District — the frontier territory that later became Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties. The street plan they drew is basically unchanged, and the Village Green they platted is still the center of everything.
That history isn't a museum piece — it's the town's economy, and its traffic. Much of Pendleton went on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 as one of the nation's largest historic districts, taking in the Green, the Farmers Society Hall that presides over it — a building begun as the district courthouse and finished by the Pendleton Farmers Society, which still meets on its second floor — and the plantation homes and historic churches around town. That designation helped make Pendleton an Upcountry tourist center drawing as many as 100,000 visitors a year — to a town the 2020 census counted at 3,489 residents. Add Tri-County Technical College's main campus on US-76 and Clemson University five minutes up the road, and Pendleton's small-town streets carry far more than small-town traffic.
Tom Conits is a Greenville lawyer with restaurant-counter manners. He has worked in his family's Greek restaurant since he was fifteen — he still takes shifts — and he runs his practice the way a good family business runs: personally. After Charleston School of Law and years inside several of South Carolina's top personal injury firms, he went out on his own with one rule: clients deal with Tom, start to finish. You call, he answers. You hire him, he drives to Pendleton.
Every case is on contingency — no fee unless we win — and every consultation is free. Call or text (864) 777-1000 and tell Tom what happened.
I come to you
Tom Drives to Pendleton — About 45 Minutes From Our Greenville Office
Pendleton sits about 30 miles from our office at 100 Williams St in downtown Greenville — call it 40 to 45 minutes on the road. Tom makes that trip gladly, because the whole point of his practice is that an injured person should not have to arrange rides, fight traffic, and sit in a waiting room to get a lawyer.
A house call works the way it sounds. You pick the place — your kitchen table, your porch, your hospital room. Tom brings the paperwork and listens to the whole story before he says much of anything. Then he explains, in plain English — or in Greek, if that's the language your family talks around the table — what the insurance company will do next, why you shouldn't give a recorded statement before you've talked to a lawyer, and what he honestly thinks of your case. If you hire him, he leaves with what he needs to open the file that same day. If you don't, you've lost nothing: the consultation is free either way.
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"Every client gets my personal cell number. Call or text me directly — you'll never chase a case manager."
Clients hear back from me the same day — and for emergencies, anytime.
— Thomas Spiro Conits
Venue
Where Pendleton Injury Cases Are Filed: Anderson County
There's an irony here that Pendleton residents will appreciate: the town that was built to hold the Upstate's courthouse no longer has one. When the old Pendleton District was carved into today's counties, the courthouse went with it, and modern Pendleton sits in Anderson County. A lawsuit over a Pendleton wreck is generally filed in the Anderson County Court of Common Pleas, at the courthouse at 100 South Main Street in downtown Anderson — the court that hears civil cases where more than $7,500 is in dispute.
Which county is proper isn't always obvious. Under South Carolina's venue statute, S.C. Code § 15-7-30, a suit against a South Carolina resident generally belongs in the county where the defendant lived when the claim arose or where the most substantial part of the events took place. Pendleton sits minutes from two county lines — Clemson and the lake country are just up the road — so a crash a few miles from your driveway can belong in a different courthouse than a crash in town. Filing in the wrong county hands the insurance company a delay it doesn't deserve, so Tom gets it right the first time.
Either way, courthouse trips are Tom's job, not yours. And since most injury claims settle without a courtroom, many clients never see the building at all.
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Local roads, local risks
Pendleton Traffic Isn't Small-Town Traffic — Here's Why
A town of 3,489 people doesn't usually need an injury lawyer's attention. A town of 3,489 that hosts 100,000 tourists, a technical college, and the overflow from an 81,500-seat stadium is a different story.
US-76 and SC-28: the Clemson corridor
US-76 and SC-28 run together from Pendleton toward Clemson — about five miles up the road — passing Tri-County Technical College's 91-acre, fourteen-building main campus at 7900 US-76 on the way. That corridor carries college commuters, workers, and through-traffic all day, every day, and rear-end crashes at commuter hours are the predictable result. The same US-76 runs the other direction toward Anderson, tying Pendleton into the county's busiest routes.
Game days change everything
Clemson's Memorial Stadium seats 81,500 — more than twenty times Pendleton's population — and when a home game lets out, every road out of the valley fills at once. Clemson's own traffic planners have publicly flagged the junction of Highway 76 and Highway 123 as a game-day bottleneck. Stop-and-go traffic, drivers who don't know the roads, and a few tailgates too many: it's a bad combination, and Pendleton sits in the middle of it half a dozen Saturdays every fall.
Streets drawn in 1790
The blocks around the Village Green were laid out for wagons, not SUVs hunting parking. On the first full weekend of April, the Historic Pendleton Spring Jubilee — the Upstate's oldest juried arts-and-crafts festival, running since 1978 — brings more than 20,000 visitors to the Green. Festival weekends and ordinary tourist Saturdays put walkers, strollers, and reversing cars on the same tight streets. When a driver doesn't watch for people on foot, it's the person on foot who pays the price.
Where the ambulance goes
Depending on where in the Pendleton area you're hurt, EMS may run you to the 24-hour emergency room at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital, 298 Memorial Drive in Seneca, or to AnMed Medical Center, 800 N. Fant Street in Anderson, whose emergency department is a Level III trauma center. The most serious crashes are often taken to Greenville Memorial, the Upstate's Level I trauma center. Wherever you were treated, those records — ER notes, imaging, bills — become the backbone of your claim, and Tom collects every page.
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How we help
Injury Cases We Handle for Pendleton Clients
Highway corridors
Truck Accidents
Commercial trucks share US-76 and SC-28 with everyone else. Truck cases mean federal rules, bigger policies, and electronic evidence that vanishes fast — they are not car cases with extra zeros.
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A town built on foot traffic
Slip & Fall Injuries
A tourist town's shops, restaurants, and event grounds owe their visitors reasonably safe premises. When they cut corners and someone falls, that's a premises liability case — and Tom takes it personally.
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Two-lane country roads
Motorcycle Accidents
Riders love the roads around Pendleton; drivers who "never saw the bike" are the danger. Motorcycle cases carry a bias problem, and Tom builds them to beat it.
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Wondering what cases like yours have actually resolved for? See recent results — every figure there is shown net to the client, with context. If your situation doesn't fit a category above, call anyway: (864) 777-1000. If Tom isn't the right lawyer for it, he'll say so and point you to someone who is.
Hurt in Pendleton? I'll meet you at your kitchen table.
I personally drive to clients' homes across Greenville and the surrounding counties — hospital rooms and kitchen tables included. You were just hurt; the last thing you need is a trip to a law office.
— Thomas Spiro Conits
Nearby communities
Also Serving Pendleton's Neighbors Across Anderson County
Same county, same courthouse, same promise: Tom drives to you. If you're closer to one of Pendleton's neighbors, start with the page written for it.
About half an hour east
Williamston
The mineral-spring town on SC-20. Same Anderson County courthouse, same house-call model.
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Across the county
Belton
The rail-junction town under the Standpipe, where US-76 meets SC-20. Tom drives there too.
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These pages are part of a growing map — see every community on the Areas We Serve page. And wherever you are on that map, the model never changes: Tom comes to you.
Questions
Pendleton Personal Injury FAQs
Do I have to come to Greenville to hire you?
No. Tom drives to Pendleton — about 30 miles from his office at 100 Williams St in downtown Greenville, call it 40 to 45 minutes. He meets clients at their kitchen tables, on their porches, and in their hospital rooms. Most clients never set foot in the Greenville office, though you are always welcome there.
Where would my Pendleton injury case be filed?
Pendleton sits in Anderson County, so a lawsuit over a Pendleton wreck is generally filed in the Anderson County Court of Common Pleas at the courthouse at 100 South Main Street in Anderson — the court that hears civil cases where more than $7,500 is in dispute. Because Pendleton sits close to the county lines near Clemson and the lake country, a crash a few miles away can belong in a neighboring county's courthouse instead. Venue turns on details like where the defendant lives and where the wreck happened, and Tom sorts that out on day one.
The driver who hit me was in town for a Clemson game. Does that change my case?
It does not change your right to recover. An out-of-town or out-of-state driver is still responsible for the harm they caused here, and their insurance still answers for it. What can change are the practical details — which county the suit belongs in, which insurer is involved, and how hard it is to track the driver down later. That is exactly why Tom starts the day you call, while the information is fresh.
Which hospital's records matter for my claim?
Wherever you were actually treated. For Pendleton-area wrecks that is often the 24-hour emergency room at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital, 298 Memorial Drive in Seneca, or AnMed Medical Center at 800 N. Fant Street in Anderson, whose emergency department is a Level III trauma center. The most serious crashes often go to Greenville Memorial, the Upstate's Level I trauma center. Tom gathers every page — ER notes, imaging, bills — because those records are the backbone of your claim.
How long do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit in South Carolina?
Generally three years from the date of injury under S.C. Code § 15-3-530, and three years from the date of death in a wrongful death case. Claims against government entities run on different and shorter deadlines, so do not sit on it. The sooner Tom starts, the easier the evidence is to preserve.
Talk to Tom about your Pendleton case — free
Free consultation. No fee unless we win. If getting to an office is hard right now, Tom will come to you.
Office: 100 Williams St, Greenville, SC 29601 · (864) 777-1000