Ken has been widely recognized for his legal skills. In 2020, Ken was named Charleston’s Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers for Personal Injury Litigation—Plaintiffs. In 2015, he was honored by Best Lawyers as the Lawyer of the Year for Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants in Charleston.
Ken has been listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers for multiple years beginning in 2011. That organization named Ken a Top 25 Super Lawyer in 2017 and a Top 10 Super Lawyer in 2018.
Ken was presented with the Avvo Client’s Choice Award in 2019. He has received a 10.0 Avvo Rating since 2017. He has been honored as a member of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in South Carolina by the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Ken has served in multiple leadership roles with legal groups. He is a past president of Injured Workers Advocates. He has been the co-chairman of IWA’s Legislative Affairs Committee for over a decade now.
Ken received his law degree (JD) from the College of William & Mary and his undergraduate degree from James Madison University (BS). He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1988 and worked six years at a large corporate defense firm before joining Joye Law Firm in 1994. He was named the firm’s Managing Partner in 2006.
Ken and his wife Jeannie have shown a commitment to their community by contributing generously to charitable interests and educational institutions, including the Ashley Hall School, Wofford College, the Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center and the Homeless to Hope Fund. Ken is especially proud of his work in helping to establish a scholarship at the Citadel in memory of his beloved legal mentor, Richard Farrier.
Ken’s family means a lot to him. A Red Sox fan like his dad, Ken and his father accomplished a life-long dream by attending baseball games at all 30 major league baseball stadiums prior to his father’s death in 2013.
Ken has served as a pack leader for the Christ Our King Cub Scouts Pack 470 and coached Little League for various sports for the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department. Currently, he is the vice-chair for the board of trustees for the Ashley Hall School, and he will assume the chair position in the fall of 2020. His wife and he served as co-chairs of the school’s annual fund-raising campaign in 2014-2015, when it became the first private school in the Lowcountry to raise over $1 million in one year through its capital campaign. Ken is also a member of the Wofford College Parents’ Board. Ken received the Charleston Animal Society’s Community Ambassador Award in 2019.