The McCord Law Firm, LLC

Where the firm is based and who it works with

Matthew McCord founded The McCord Law Firm, LLC in Greenville, South Carolina, in 2010. The firm works with individuals and with businesses. Those two groups tend to bring different problems through the same door. A general practice has to be set up for both at once.

The stated service area reaches past the city itself. The firm lists Greenville along with Spartanburg, Pickens, Anderson and Oconee, the counties that cover much of Upstate South Carolina. As a reviewer, I read that as a practice built for the Upstate region as a whole. A client in Anderson or Oconee is as much the target as one in Greenville.

The firm describes itself as a boutique firm. A smaller office that still lists a broad slate of practice areas tends to route clients to the same lawyers across very different kinds of work. That has a plain effect on the client, who deals with a familiar face whether the matter is a house closing or a custody hearing. For many clients, that continuity is part of what a smaller firm offers.

The practice areas the site lists

The firm puts real estate, family law and estate planning near the front of its list. On the real estate side it handles residential and commercial closings. In family law it takes divorce, separation, child custody and adoption. Estate planning runs to wills, powers of attorney and trusts.

The list carries on into personal injury, probate administration, business and startup law, and civil litigation. The firm also practices intellectual property law in the Upstate. That is a wide range for a single office. It points to general-practice work across many of the legal needs a household or a small business runs into over the years.

How real estate and family matters usually run

Real estate closings follow a set path. A title search comes first, then a review of the contract and any liens on the property, then the closing itself, where the parties sign and the funds change hands. A firm that handles both residential and commercial closings works on both types. That can mean acting for a buyer, for a seller, and at times for a lender. Timing and coordination between agents, lenders and the closing attorney keep a sale on schedule.

Family matters move on a different track. Divorce and separation in South Carolina go through the family court, which handles the division of property, the question of support and, where children are involved, custody. Custody and adoption both put a judge in the position of approving arrangements for a child. The paperwork and the hearings follow rules set by the state court system.

In my opinion, the value of a local firm in these matters is plain familiarity with the county courts where the case is heard. Knowing the clerk's office, the filing habits and the judges in a given county saves time. For family and probate work, which stay in-state, that local footing carries weight. In probate, that same court familiarity helps an estate move through the county probate court without avoidable delay.

Estate planning and probate work

Estate planning and probate sit next to each other for a reason. The documents a firm drafts during planning, the wills, the trusts and the powers of attorney, are the same documents that guide probate later. A power of attorney covers decisions while a person is living. A will and a trust govern what happens to property afterward.

Probate administration is the court-supervised process of settling an estate. In broad terms it means proving the will, notifying heirs and creditors, paying valid debts and taxes, and passing what remains to the people named. A firm that both drafts the plan and handles the later administration can carry a family through the full arc of that work.

Personal injury, business and litigation

Personal injury claims start with fault and harm. The injured person, or the lawyer acting for them, gathers medical records and evidence of how the injury happened, then presents a demand to the other side or its insurer. Many claims settle before trial. The ones that do not become civil litigation, which is the area the firm lists alongside it.

Business and startup law covers the questions a company faces early. Choice of entity, the formation papers, contracts and ownership terms all fall in that space. When a business dispute reaches court, civil litigation is the area that carries it forward. The firm lists both, so it can help form a company and, when a disagreement turns into a filing, represent it.

Intellectual property closes out the list. For a smaller business in the Upstate, that work often means protecting a name, a logo or a product through trademark and related filings. The firm names intellectual property as one of its areas and ties it to the business and startup work above. That overlap is common for a firm that lists both business formation and brand protection.

What the site says about the team and how the firm bills

The website names Matthew McCord as the founder. The supplied pages do not carry individual attorney biographies, so the size and makeup of the team is one detail the site keeps to itself. What the site sets out clearly is the span of work the firm takes on, and that breadth is the main thing a prospective client can weigh from the pages alone.

On billing, the firm says its lawyers offer alternative fee payment schedules for many services. That points to some flexibility in how a client can arrange payment. In general terms, alternative fee arrangements can mean a set fee for a defined task or payment spread across stages of a matter. It tends to help most when a matter is hard to scope at the very start.

The firm also lists social profiles on Facebook, X and LinkedIn. For a small firm, that presence gives a client a few plain ways to check for updates and confirm they are reaching the right office in Greenville. Those channels also let a client see how the firm presents its work between visits to the website.