Longtime member of SC’s largest law firm dies

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A longtime partner of one of South Carolina’s largest law firms has died.

Steve Morrison of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough said that Claude Mood Scarborough, Jr., died Saturday at his home in Columbia. He was 82.

Scarborough earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of South Carolina. After serving in the U.S. Army, in 1955 he started practicing at the firm that then had only six attorneys, serving as its managing partner for more than three decades.

Scarborough served as a trustee for the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina Philharmonic and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.

He is survived by his wife and four children. Visitation is scheduled for Tuesday at Dunbar Funeral Home. Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia.

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