Stan Jackson is a professor of Securities and Consumer Law at the Charleston School of Law. Professor Jackson is also a business law instructor for a course at the Medical College of Georgia and is a visiting professor with the Center for International Legal Studies.
Professor Jackson graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Georgia School of Law (1973). Professor Jackson attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York City. Professor Jackson was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1973 and to the South Carolina Bar in 1996. Professor Jackson has been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of South Carolina, the United States District Courts, District of South Carolina, and the Southern and Northern Districts of Georgia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and all Georgia Courts. Professor Jackson has been admitted pro hac vice to the Federal Districts Courts for New York, Washington, DC and New Orleans. Professor Jackson has tried numerous civil cases in both state and federal courts. Professor Jackson has served as a Delegate to the South Carolina Bar and as President of the Aiken Bar Association. In 1988 Stan Jackson was trained as a mediator.
Professor Jackson has had long and extensive class action experience. The first class action in which he was counsel was filed in 1975 and alleged securities fraud. In that case he favorably represented J.B. Fuqua of Fuqua Industries and his employees at WJBF television. During his 31 years of experience, renouned attorneys have given affidavits in Class actions opining that Stan Jackson has exceptional legal skills and is qualified as lead counsel in Class actions. These include Eugene Rogers of the Columbia firm of Rogers, Townsend & Thomas. He has served as lead counsel in certified class actions; Judges Albert M. Pickett and J. Carlisle Overstreet of the Augusta Judicial circuit, Professor John Freeman of the South Carolina Law School, former South Carolina Secretary of State Jim Miles, former Georgia Bar President Gene Mac Winburn, and former Georgia Trial Lawyer President John Bell have testified in cases for Stan.
Class actions in which Professor Jackson has been certified as the lead lawyer include, Oakwood Mobile Homes litigation (certified by Federal Judge Charles E. Simons, Jr.); Morton v. Fleet Finance, (provisionally certified by Judge Costa M. Pleicones and final certification by Judge James C. Williams, Jr.); Baker v. Cedar Creek, (certified by Federal Judge Cameron M. Currie); Brown v. Woodside, (certified by Federal Judge Cameron M. Currie); Johnson v. First Family, (certified by Judge James W. Johnson, Jr.) and the Phillips College litigation (certified by Federal Judge Dudley H. Bowen, Jr.). Professor Jackson also served on the Plaintiff's discovery committee in one of the largest antitrust class action in the country, In Re Vitamins litigation, which settled for $1.13 billion.
Also, Professor Jackson was one of the original filers of class litigation involving the HomeGold and Carolina Investors' debacle in South Carolina. Professor Jackson was then employed by Ralph C. McCullough, II, Trustee in bankruptcy, as lead counsel against the auditing accountants for HomeGold and Carolina Investors. The combined cases settled for $41.6 million before Judge Ross Anderson.
Professor Jackson is rated "AV" the highest rating by Martindale Hubbell.
