Contact information Professor Jonathan A. Marcantel P.O. Box 535 Charleston, S.C. 29402 Phone: 843.377.2449 Email: jmarcantel@charlestonlaw.org Career J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law B.A., College of Charleston

Jonathan A. Marcantel
Legal writing professor

Jonathan A. Marcantel, formerly a law clerk to S.C. Court of Appeals Judge William L. Howard Sr., most recently worked as an attorney at the Finkel Law Firm LLC where he focused on commercial and insurance litigation.

A graduate from the College of Charleston with bachelor degrees in political science and history, Marcantel received a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, he interned for the S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal and served as a research editor on the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal.

Marcantel also serves as an adjunct professor of political science at the College of Charleston and serves on the S.C. Bar's Ethics Advisory and Professional Responsibility Committees. In 2008, Marcantel was named an assistant editor of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

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