Michelle King focuses her practice on complex estate planning, tax strategy, and business transactions. She advises individuals and business owners on cross border planning, charitable strategies, Qualified Opportunity Zone investments, entity formation, succession planning, and corporate reorganizations.

Michelle earned her Master of Laws in Taxation with a Certificate in Estate Planning from Georgetown University Law Center and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she received the CALI Award in Corporate Taxation and the Albert C. Todd III Estate Planning Award.

She is active in leadership roles within the Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Section Legislative Subcommittee and serves on the steering committee for the University of South Carolina School of Law Estate Planning conference. Her honors include Best Lawyers Ones to Watch in America, Greenville Business Magazine Legal Elite, and the South Carolina Women in Business Award. She also mentors law students through programs at the University of South Carolina.

Outside the office, Michelle enjoys spending time with her husband Tyler and their daughters Claire and Kate, walking the Swamp Rabbit Trail, hosting dinners, painting, and playing tennis.

Georgetown University Law Center (Master of Laws) Taxation

  • Certificate in Estate Planning

University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D.)

  • CALI® Award in Corporate Taxation
  • Albert C. Todd, III Estate Planning Award Recipient

University of South Carolina (B.A.)

Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law - North Carolina

South Carolina Bar

  • Young Lawyers Division
  • Tax Law Section
  • Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Section (Legislative Subcommittee)

North Carolina Bar

Probate, Estate Planning, and Trust Section Legislative Subcommittee Chair (2025-Present)

Greenville County Bar Association

Greenville Estate Planning Council

Greenville Estate Planning Study Group

Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch© in America for 2027 in the fields of:

  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Tax Law
  • Trusts and Estates

Greenville Business Magazine Legal Elite Award Recipient (2022-Present)

  • 2026 Top Vote Recipient in the Upstate for Estate & Trust Planning.

Named a Rising Star in South Carolina Super Lawyers (2026)

Greenville Business Magazine SC Women in Business Award Recipient (2025)

Greenville Business Magazine’s Best and Brightest 35 and Under (2024)

Top Lawyer Talk Magazine (2023)

Southeast Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Graduate

Recipient of the CALI® Award in Corporate Taxation at the University of South Carolina School of Law

Recipient of the Albert C. Todd, III Estate Planning Award at the University of South Carolina School of Law

Konduros Leadership Development Program, Graduate

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