Wallace

K.

Lightsey

Following law school, Wallace clerked for one year for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, followed by a year clerking for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Since then, he has been in private practice at the law firm Wyche P.A. in Greenville, South Carolina.  

He is an experienced trial and appellate attorney, with over 60 jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast, and approximately 100 bench trials, jury trials, and arbitration trials, as well as numerous appeals in the South Carolina appellate courts and the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits. His practice involves complex securities, corporate, and intellectual property cases, as well as news media and First Amendment disputes.  In 2004, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, and in 2019, he was inducted into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Wallace is actively involved in matters of professional ethics and served as the Chair of the South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct from 1997 through 2004.

He has published and spoken extensively on First Amendment issues, copyright law and litigation, professional ethics, and contract law and theory.