Part of: Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG)
After 23 Lawyers, Nancy Mace Is Now Pro Se
After cycling through 23 different attorneys since 2023, Nancy Mace is now representing herself in court, including in the third-party complaint against her in the Berg litigation. This is the timeline, with every date and every case.
After cycling through 23 different attorneys since 2023, Nancy Mace is now representing herself in court.
According to court filings, Mace is currently proceeding pro se in the third-party complaint against her, Bryant v. Mace, inside the Berg v. Bryant litigation. Last week, in early September 2026, she filed on her own, asking the state court to stay that case while she pursues an appeal in the related federal court matter. After twenty-three lawyers, a sitting member of Congress is now writing and filing her own motions.
That is where a three-year revolving door of attorneys has ended up. The timeline reads like a carousel. Mace retained her first counsel in November 2023 for evidence preservation. Over the next two years she cycled through firm after firm: a mediation team in early 2024, the Phipps firm through that fall, House and federal counsel in 2025, then Moorman and Pillsbury, then still more firms into late 2025.
Then, on January 21, 2026, she fired them all. Mace filed pro se, representing herself, telling the court she had "relieved my previous counsel." Two days later she declared she had "stood in front of the judge, representing myself," and moved her case to federal court. She would not stay self-represented for long. By March 9, 2026 she was back with a major firm, Womble Bond Dickinson, alongside Oliver Maner, in the Assignment Desk Works v. Berg matter.
In a March 9 email later revealed in court, Mace wrote that "while I have thoroughly enjoyed being pro se, so much so it's made me want to go to law school," she could not attend an upcoming hearing. But the pro se chapter was not over. On June 30, 2026, she filed pro se yet again, this time in her own defamation case, Mace v. Bowman. And now she is pro se once more, in the Bryant third-party complaint against her.
The cases
- Mace v. Bryant, a partition and property matter
- Mace v. Bowman, a defamation case (pro se as of June 30, 2026)
- Musgrave v. Mace, a defamation case
- GLT2 v. Mace, a Rule 27 pre-suit petition
- Berg v. Bryant, where Mace first appeared pro se on January 21, 2026, and where she now proceeds pro se on the Bryant v. Mace third-party complaint against her
- Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where Mace returned to counsel with Womble Bond Dickinson and Oliver Maner
Twenty-three lawyers. Multiple firms hired, relieved, and re-hired. Now representing herself again in the case against her. The complete attorney-by-attorney timeline, with every date and every case, is documented at Maceopedia with citations to the Post and Courier, Live5News, FITSNews, Fox Carolina, the South Carolina Judicial Branch Public Index, and PACER.
Sources: Maceopedia: Nancy Mace's lawyers | Post and Courier | Live5News | FITSNews
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