Neil Robinson Named to Clemson Foundation Board

CHARLESTON, SC — Neil C. Robinson, Jr., a Member (partner) in Nexsen Pruet’s Charleston office, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Clemson University Foundation.

Robinson’s election comes on the heels of two other appointments he has accepted at Clemson. University President Jim Barker recently named him to the Board of Visitors, and he has agreed to serve as a founding trustee of the new Clemson Real Estate Development Foundation.

Robinson, who earned his undergraduate degree from Clemson, concentrates his practice in areas that include complex real estate transactions; administrative law, including permitting, zoning, and Development Agreements; and commercial, resort and planned community real estate development.

He was recently named to the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America for real estate, was ranked in Chambers USA as one of the best lawyers in South Carolina for real estate law, and was one of just three attorneys in South Carolina listed in Who’s Who Legal: USA – Real Estate 2006.

Additionally, he is Founder and past President of the Charleston Education Network; past President of the Clemson Advancement Foundation; President of the Coastal Properties Institute; immediate past President of the Hibernian Society; former President of the South Carolina Tourism Council; and a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Recreation Development Council.  He currently serves as a member of the S.C. Education Oversight Committee and President of the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE).

The Clemson University Foundation raises, manages, and invests private gifts on behalf of the school, while the Board of Visitors works to support the university’s mission, serves as statewide ambassadors for Clemson, and assists the administration with special projects.

The Real Estate Development Foundation will support Clemson’s graduate program in real estate development, one of just seven such programs in America.

Nexsen Pruet, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 180 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C.  Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.