Stirling Halversen

Stirling practices exclusively in the area of municipal law. She provides advice in all arenas affecting municipal corporations pertaining to real estate transactions, environmental, corporate and contract matters, and provides drafting and advice for land use, zoning and building regulations, variances and special exceptions, code enforcement, FOIA, FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, ethics laws, preparation of ordinances and resolutions, and constitutional issues. Where there is no conflict with municipal clients, Stirling represents individual clients in zoning and code enforcement matters.

Prior to joining her husband with Halversen & Halversen, LLC, Stirling served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Charleston from 2018 to 2022. Prior to joining the City of Charleston, Stirling served as the City Attorney for the City of Isle of Palms from 2010 to 2018 and Assistant City Attorney from 2009 to 2010. Stirling also served as the attorney for the Town of Mount Pleasant’s Board of Zoning Appeals on an as-needed basis from 2017 to 2018.

Stirling previously worked at the West Palm Beach, Florida law firm of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, PA, where she represented and served as an Assistant Town Attorney for the Florida beach communities of Palm Beach, Jupiter Island and the Village of Tequesta from 2004 to 2008. While in law school she interned for Florida Supreme Court Justice Charles T. Wells and the Florida State Office of the Attorney General. Stirling moved to Mount Pleasant in 2008 with her husband Brent and they have two children.