South Carolina

Frederick C. Baker
Member Attorney

Fred Baker currently divides his time between environmental, commercial, and securities and consumer fraud matters.

Over the course of his legal career, Fred has litigated a broad range of complex cases in the environmental, medical costs recovery, consumer and products liability fields. He was a member of the legal team that litigated the groundbreaking tobacco litigation on behalf of several State Attorneys General. He also participated in the litigation of individual tobacco cases, entity tobacco cases and a tobacco class action. Fred has served as counsel in a number of class actions, including the two class action settlements arising out of the Graniteville train derailment chlorine spill and the currently pending West Virginia unfair trade practices insurance class action. Additionally, he litigates large scale environmental contamination cases and is currently assisting in representing individuals and businesses in Gulf Coast communities suffering as a result of the BP oil spill.

Fred began practicing with Motley Rice attorneys in 1994. He currently chairs the firm’s attorney hiring committee.