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About Fulcher Hagler LLP
Fulcher Hagler LLP is a law firm based in Augusta, Georgia. The firm serves individual, small business, and corporate clients across Georgia and South Carolina.
It states that it has been helping clients for more than 75 years. Its practice areas include corporate and business law, civil litigation, commercial real estate, tax law and personal asset protection, estate planning and probate, government law, insurance defense litigation, and employment law.
The firm's litigation teams handle business litigation, employment claims, claims against transportation and logistics companies, and contract disputes. Its civil defense work covers premises liability, motor vehicle and trucking litigation, construction litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and professional liability, in both state and federal courts.
The firm's estate and tax attorneys work on estate and tax planning, business succession planning, tax dispute resolution, probate litigation, estate and trust administration, business formation and compliance, nonprofit law, and real estate closings. Fulcher Hagler also lists industry focuses in healthcare, transportation and logistics, and banking and creditor services.
Editor's Review
VerifiedLawFirms editorialFocus and practice areas
Fulcher Hagler LLP works out of Augusta, Georgia, and takes clients in both Georgia and South Carolina. Those clients range across individuals, small businesses, and corporations. The firm says it has been at this for more than 75 years.
Eight practice areas appear on the firm's practice page: corporate and business law, civil litigation, commercial real estate, tax law and personal asset protection, estate planning and probate, government law, insurance defense litigation, and employment law. That spread covers most of what a regional business client needs from one office. The firm also names three industries it works in: healthcare, transportation and logistics, and banking and creditor services.
Litigation work
The firm's litigation teams handle business disputes, employment claims, contract disputes, and claims brought against transportation and logistics companies. On the civil defense side, the firm covers premises liability, motor vehicle and trucking litigation, construction litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and professional liability. It appears in state and federal courts.
Insurance defense litigation and trucking work tend to travel together. A trucking claim usually brings in the carrier, the driver, the motor carrier's insurer, and sometimes a broker, each with separate exposure. Federal motor carrier safety regulations, driver logs, and telematics data often decide these cases before a jury ever sees them. A firm that lists both insurance defense and transportation clients is set up for that kind of file.
Estate, tax, and business work
The estate and tax attorneys handle estate and tax planning, business succession planning, tax dispute resolution, probate litigation, estate and trust administration, business formation and compliance, nonprofit law, and real estate closings. This is the transactional half of the firm.
Business succession planning in a two-state footprint has real complications. Georgia and South Carolina treat entity formation, trust administration, and probate differently, and a family business with property or operations on both sides of the Savannah River can face two sets of rules. In my opinion, the Georgia and South Carolina coverage is the most useful thing on the firm's page for anyone in the Augusta area, where the state line runs through everyday commercial life.
How the team is built
The attorney page lists 17 lawyers: nine partners, three of counsel, and five associates. For a firm carrying eight practice areas, that headcount means most attorneys carry more than one area.
Four attorneys have bios on the pages our research reached. Those bios give a clearer picture of how the work divides than the practice list does on its own.
Mark C. Wilby
Wilby joined Fulcher Hagler in 1986 and became a partner in 1991. That is 40 years at one firm, and it lines up with the firm's own statement about its length of practice. He sits in the Litigation Group and works on railroad defense and general litigation.
He also works in the firm's employment law practice and counsels families who need adoption assistance. Railroad defense is a narrow field. Cases often turn on the Federal Employers Liability Act, which sets a different negligence standard for rail workers than ordinary tort law does, so the work rewards attorneys who stay in it for years.
Steven L. Sanders
Sanders joined the firm in 2011 and belongs to the business, estates, and tax group. His estate planning work covers wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care powers, and elder law. He also does tax planning and asset protection.
His practice includes estate administration and probate, including guardianships and conservatorships. Those two proceedings run through the probate court and require a petition, medical evidence of incapacity, notice to the person concerned, and often a court-appointed evaluator. They can take months. Sanders also advises on business organization matters, which puts him on the transactional side alongside the estate work.
Dora H. Hogg
Hogg holds an of counsel position and works primarily in employment law, representing employers. Her work includes responding to charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, drafting policy manuals, counseling employers on discipline and terminations, and drafting severance and release agreements.
She advises on compliance with federal and state law, including Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act. EEOC charges follow a fixed sequence. An employee files, the employer submits a position statement, the agency investigates, and mediation may follow before any right-to-sue letter issues. Employers who get counsel at the position statement stage are usually in better shape later.
Thomas Parfenchuck
The firm gives Parfenchuck a bio on its home page alongside Wilby, Sanders, and Hogg. Featuring four attorneys on the front page is a choice about which practices the firm wants a visitor to see first: litigation, estates and tax, and employment law.
What the record shows
The most checkable claim on the site is duration. More than 75 years of practice puts the firm's start somewhere before 1951. The site never gives a founding year, so the exact date stays open. Wilby's 1986 arrival and 1991 partnership sit comfortably inside that span and give the claim a second data point.
The named roster is the other piece worth weighing. Titles are published for all 17 attorneys, so a prospective client can see the partner-to-associate ratio before making contact. Nine partners against five associates is a partner-heavy structure, which usually means senior attorneys handle more of the day-to-day work themselves.
As a reviewer, this is the kind of listing that holds up under checking. The practice areas are specific enough to match against a real problem. The industries are named. The attorney bios describe actual tasks: drafting severance agreements, filing guardianship petitions, defending railroad claims. Those are verifiable descriptions of legal work.
Who this firm fits
An Augusta-area business with operations in both Georgia and South Carolina has a natural reason to look here. So does an employer facing an EEOC charge, a family working through a probate or guardianship, or an insurer defending a trucking claim in either state.
The eight practice areas are grouped in a way that suggests two working halves: a litigation side handling defense and disputes, and a business, estates, and tax side handling planning, formation, and administration. Sanders and Wilby represent one of each. The firm publishes phone contact and a single office location, and it references a Facebook page in its footer.
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Adelaide Bottomley Associate
Alexander S. Merrill Associate
Daniel Welsh Of Counsel
David J. Hymel Partner
David Hymel is an attorney at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia. He is listed in the firm's directory as a general practice attorney.
Dora H. Hogg Of Counsel
Dora H. Hogg's primary practice area is employment law, representing employers. Her work includes responding to charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, drafting policy manuals, counseling employers on discipline and terminations, and drafting severance and release agreements. She advises on compliance with federal and state laws including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and represents employers in employment litigation. She also practices railroad law.
John E. Price Partner
John E. Price is a partner at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia. He earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and a J.D. from the College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 2004. His practice includes defense and federal litigation, railroad law, civil rights, professional malpractice, and municipal litigation, along with personal injury and product liability defense.
Kyle B. Waddell Partner
Kyle B. Waddell is a partner at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia. He earned a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 2011 and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2014. His practice includes litigation, family law, and medical malpractice defense. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Augusta Bar Association, and the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division.
Mark C. Wilby Partner
Mark C. Wilby joined the firm in 1986 and became a partner in 1991. He is a member of the Litigation Group and works on railroad defense and general litigation matters. He is involved with the firm's Employment Law practice and provides counsel for families that require adoption assistance.
Mary Elizabeth Watkins Of Counsel
Miranda Durden Associate
Nicole Corn DeLoach Associate
Russell V. Mobley Partner
Russell V. Mobley is a partner at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia. He earned a B.B.A. from Augusta College in 1986, a J.D. from Georgia State University in 1991, and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida in 1992. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Georgia and handles matters in estate planning, corporate law, taxation, Medicaid planning, and probate.
Samuel J. Adams Partner
Samuel J. Adams is a partner at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia. He earned a B.A. in Latin and Classical Culture from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law, followed by an LL.M. in Federal Criminal Practice from Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law. He previously served as a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. His practice covers corporate and business law, commercial litigation, and estate planning and probate.
Scott W. Kelly Partner
Scott W. Kelly is a partner at Fulcher Hagler LLP in Augusta, Georgia, where he has practiced since graduating from law school in 1993. He earned a B.B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Georgia. His practice focuses on civil litigation and local government law, handling matters that include personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, civil rights, commercial disputes, and insurance coverage and subrogation. He has also served as county attorney for Warren County and as general counsel for the County's Development Authority.
Sonja R. Tate Partner
Sonja R. Tate earned her bachelor's degree in 1993 and her law degree in 1996, both from the University of Georgia. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable E. Purnell Davis and Roger W. Dunaway, Jr. of the Toombs Judicial Circuit. She has practiced at Fulcher Hagler LLP since 1999 and became a partner in 2004. Her litigation practice includes personal injury, insurance coverage, construction defects, contract disputes, fraud, premises liability, contested probate matters, and domestic disputes in Georgia and South Carolina.
Steven L. Sanders Partner
Steven L. Sanders joined Fulcher Hagler in 2011 and is a member of its business, estates, and tax group. His practice includes estate planning such as wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care powers, and elder law, along with tax planning and asset protection. He handles estate administration and probate matters, including guardianships and conservatorships. He also advises on business organizations, nonprofit and charitable organizations, business succession, business sales and acquisitions, and property matters including commercial real estate closings and secured lending.
Thomas Parfenchuck Associate
Thomas Parfenchuck represents clients in a range of financial matters. He joined the firm as an associate in the business, tax, and estate group in early 2025.
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