Overview
Travis Wheeler is an antitrust lawyer. He represents clients large and small as both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust litigation.
Travis counsels clients on all manners of antitrust issues, including horizontal and vertical restraints, resale price maintenance and price discrimination issues, and mergers. He regularly conducts antitrust compliance training and drafts corporate compliance policies for clients.
Outside of the office, Travis is an adjunct professor of Antitrust Law & Trade Regulation and Law & Economics at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Travis has been recognized repeatedly by his peers as a “Legal Elite” for Antitrust Law in the Midlands, receiving the most votes of any attorney in 2018.
Travis serves as a Vice Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee. Prior to that appointment, he was a Vice Chair of the Section’s Exemptions & Immunities Committee for three years. He is currently only the South Carolinian to hold a leadership position in the ABA’s Antitrust Section.
In addition, Travis also has experience in local government, election and constitutional matters. He was part of a team that challenged a mayoral primary result, and he has challenged special legislation targeting individual special purpose districts in violation of the South Carolina Constitution. Travis has also prosecuted, pro bono, criminal domestic violence cases before juries in Orangeburg, Kershaw, and Sumter counties.
Prior to coming to South Carolina, he practiced antitrust law with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and clerked for the Honorable Reynaldo G. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D. with High Honors from Duke University School of Law and his B.A, summa cum laude, from Wofford College. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa.
Community & Professional
Outside his practice, Travis served six years on the Board of Trustees of the Montessori School of Columbia. He also served as the President of the Rosewood Community Council in 2007 and 2008 and as Vice President of the Central Rosewood Neighborhood Association in 2011. He was also Chairperson of the Columbia Parks and Recreation Foundation in 2013-14, on which he began serving in 2008.
Outside Maynard Nexsen
Away from the office and the classroom, Travis and his wife, Lisa, keep busy with an fourteen-year-old son, an eleven-year-old daughter, a golden retriever, and three backyard chickens. Outside of work, he can often be found cheering on his son in kart racing or school sports or watching his daughter’s dance performances. He is an avid cyclist and runner (and has run at least one mile every day since April 13, 2011).
Admissions
- State Bar: South Carolina, North Carolina, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court: South Carolina, North Carolina (Western)
- U.S. Court of Appeals: Fourth Circuit