Biography

Tina Cundari is a trial and appellate lawyer with two decades of experience representing individuals, businesses, and government entities in a wide variety of litigation. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, False Claims Act litigation and investigations, white-collar defense, and appellate advocacy. Tina also has extensive experience representing lawyers and law firms in legal malpractice actions and proceedings before the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Tina has tried cases in state and federal court and in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) forum. She has argued appeals in the South Carolina Supreme Court, the South Carolina Court of Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She has drafted cert oppositions in the United States Supreme Court.

Tina is a former Assistant United States Attorney and former Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Columbia, South Carolina.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tina was a member of a South Carolina boutique litigation firm, where she practiced for 13 years. 

Tina clerked for the Honorable Jean Hoefer Toal, former Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, and the Honorable Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., United States District Court Judge (summer 2010).

Tina has been an Adjunct Instructor for the University of South Carolina School of Law during both the 2004-2005 and the 2022-2023 school years. During her first stint she taught legal writing to first year law students, and more recently she taught an advanced legal writing course titled “Legal Writing for the Courts.”

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Tina grew up in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Tina is married to Cory Manning, an Iowa native and also a lawyer.