About Frederick Elliotte
Frederick Elliotte Quinn grew up studying law from the inside out. He completed his undergraduate degree at the College of Charleston in 2008 and earned his J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 2011. He is licensed to practice in South Carolina.
Quinn’s career combines public service, board leadership and private practice. He has served on the Charleston County Procurement Appeals Board since 2015. That role put him at the intersection of local government procurement rules and dispute resolution. He also served as a commissioner on the Charleston County Housing & Redevelopment Authority from 2016 to 2018 and chaired My Sister’s House from 2021 to 2022.
He holds multiple board roles and memberships that reflect a breadth of interests. He has been a member of the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates since 2020. He joined the South Carolina Community Associations Institute board in 2017 and later took a seat on Community Associations Institute boards at the national and legislative levels. He is on the boards of nonprofit groups, including Palmetto Project and Dorchester Paws. He maintains memberships in industry and technical organizations as well, including the International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants and the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Quinn’s professional associations point toward particular subject matter: community associations, construction and building enclosure issues, and trial practice. He has been a member of the South Carolina Bar Construction Law Section since 2015 and has been active in the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Construction Industry. He joined the National Trial Lawyers Association in 2021. In 2015 he served as the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Liaison to a contract documents division.
In private practice Quinn is part of Steinberg Law Office LLP, which operates offices in Charleston and Goose Creek. His work involves counseling community associations, advising on construction-related disputes and participating in regulatory and governance matters for both public and private entities. He combines practice time with board work and committee service, often handling issues that require translating technical building science into legal strategy.
Colleagues describe him as methodical in handling complex procedural issues and attentive to governance details. He continues to maintain an active role in local nonprofits while practicing law at Steinberg Law Office LLP. He focuses his practice on community association governance, construction-related disputes and related regulatory matters.
