Steven McFarland is an associate of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who practices in Columbia in the areas of business litigation and franchise and distribution litigation. Mr. McFarland has worked on franchise and distribution matters for clients in a wide range of industries, including the hotel, industrial coatings, and manufactured home industries. Mr. McFarland also has worked on numerous matters in the area of automobile franchise litigation, including cases for motor vehicle and heavy truck manufacturers arising from add points, relocations, terminations, warranty and incentive payments, allocations, and numerous other aspects of the manufacturer-dealer relationship.

Mr. McFarland is a member of the North Carolina and South Carolina state bars and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina.

Prior to joining Nelson Mullins, Mr. McFarland worked as a summer associate at Nelson Mullins and another Columbia law firm. He also has experience as a claims case manager for an insurance company and was a management intern for a large manufacturing facility. Mr. McFarland volunteers as a Special Prosecutor for the S.C. Attorney General’s Criminal Domestic Violence pro bono program. He also serves on the Palmetto Health Hospice and Palliative Care Board of Directors.

Mr. McFarland authored the comment, "A One-Two Punch to Forum-Shopping: Recent Judicial and Legislative Amendments to South Carolina’s Corporate Venue Jurisprudence," 57 S.C. L. REV. 465 (2006).

He earned his Juris Doctor in May 2007 from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Wig and Robe and Order of the Coif; served on the editorial board of the South Carolina Law Review; received CALI Awards in Family Law, Advanced Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Constitutional Law II; was a Contracts and Torts tutor in the Academic Assistance Program, and was a member of the Student Bar Association. He also served as a research assistant in products liability to Professor David G. Owen.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and in Management and Society from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002.