Meet Katherine

Katie Busbee is an associate in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Greenville office and focuses her practice on economic development and employment law matters.

In law school, Katie served as the Research Editor for the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal. 

Prior to law school, Katie was the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.

• University of South Carolina, J.D., cum laude, 2021
• Erskine College, B.A and B.S., magna cum laude, 2014

• South Carolina, 2021

• Order of the Wig and Robe
• CALI Award Recipient: Securities Regulations, Business Torts, Complex Civil Litigation, Civil Litigation Capstone

• South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division
• Zion Assembly Church of God, Youth Group Leader and Clerk

• “Essentials for Maintaining Employee Handbooks, Including the Latest Employment Law Updates,” HSB Blog, November 29, 2023
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: Employment Law Updates and Essentials in Maintaining Your Employee Handbooks,” October 26, 2023
• “2022 EEO-1 Deadline Delayed,” HSB Blog, July 5, 2023
• “Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Requirements: Are all employees entitled to a raise?,” HSB Blog, April 20, 2023
• ​“2023 Employment Law Update,” Anderson Area SHRM Meeting, January 12, 2023
• Co-author of “FDI Oversight: Dawn of a New Era?,” National Security Law Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 6, 2023
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: What Employers Need to Know About ADA Compliance and Technology,” October 27, 2022
• “Bonuses & Calculating an Employee’s Regular Rate of Pay for Overtime,” HSB Blog, July 20, 2022
• “CFIUS Compliance Takes Form,” GGI Real Estate News, No. 15, Autumn 2022 and HSB Blog, June 20, 2022
• “Do I have to pay my summer intern?,” HSB Blog, April 19, 2022
• “U.S. Supreme Court Blocks OSHA ETS for Large Employers but Allows Vaccination
  Requirements for Healthcare Workers to Proceed,” HSB Blog, January 13, 2022
• “2022 State & Federal Legislative Preview,” Anderson Area SHRM Employment Law Update, January 6, 2022
• “A Look Ahead: 2022 Legislative Preview,” HSB Pee Dee SHRM Employment Law Update, Florence, SC, December 9, 2021
• ​“Mandatory Vaccines for Healthcare Workers Put on Pause,” HSB Blog, December 1, 2021