Business Litigation
 Turner Padget’s Business Litigation attorneys have established their exceptional reputations inside and outside the courtroom doors by counseling and representing clients in a wide range of critical legal issues including but not limited to business restructuring and reorganization issues, corporate criminal investigations, shareholder or partnership litigation, unfair trade practices, contract disputes, environmental issues and intellectual property disputes.
The firm has developed a business litigation practice that includes the handling of simple breach of contract matters to banking, fiduciary responsibilities, finance, real estate, commercial fraud, corporate governance, securities, antitrust, creditors' rights, lender liability, business torts, franchise disputes, trusts and estates and a complete range of other matters.
The success of Turner Padget’s Business Litigation attorneys stem from the fact that they not only know the case and the law, but they also know their clients, their clients’ industries and the specific business issues that their clients face.
We serve our business litigation clients through the following practices:
Business Restructuring and Reorganization
- Forced Dissolutions
- Corporate Divorces
Construction
- Construction Bonds
- Construction Defects
- Construction Contract Disputes
Contracts
- Breach of Contract
- Covenants not to Compete
- Franchise Problems
- Tortious Interference with Contracts and Prospective Advantage
Corporate Criminal Investigations
- Antitrust
- White Collar Crime
- Internal Investigations
- Premium Fraud
- Securities Fraud
- Fraudulent Conveyances
- Fraud
Environmental
Fiduciary Matters
- Conservatorships and Guardianships
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty
- Probate, Trusts and Estates Disputes
Financial Institutions/Regulatory/Collections/Bankruptcy
- Bad Checks
- Banking Issues
- Foreclosures
- Collections (Commercial/Consumer)
- Creditor Rights
- Mechanic’s Liens
- UCC Disputes
Governmental Regulatory
- DHEC Certificates of Need
- Request for Proposal and Bid Disputes
- Solid Waste Management and Permit Disputes
Intellectual Property
- Copyrights
- Patents
- Trade Marks (Idea Protection)
- Trade Secrets
Malpractice
- Accounting Malpractice
- Negligent Representation
Real Estate Litigation
- Condemnations
- Partitions
- Leasehold Disputes
Shareholder/Partnership Litigation
- Partnership Accountings
- Dissenter’s Rights
- Piercing of Corporate Veil
- Officers and Directors Liability
Unfair Trade Practices
- Uniform Unfair Trade Practices Act
The Business Litigation Practice is a statewide practice that serves local, state, regional and national clients through Turner Padget’s
five offices.
Attorneys
Shareholders
Timothy D. St. Clair,
Business Litigation Practice Leader, Greenville
R. Wayne Byrd, Florence
Richard S. Dukes, Charleston
Vernon F. Dunbar, Greenville
Michael S. Hopewell, Florence
Sarah D. Hurley,
Greenville
Stephen A. Husman, Columbia
J. René Josey, Florence
Bernard S. Klosowski, Jr.,
Greenville
Julie J. Moose, Florence
Jeffrey L. Payne, Florence
W. Duvall Spruill, Columbia
John S. Wilkerson, III , Charleston
Associates
Audra M. Byrd, Myrtle Beach
C. Pierce Campbell, Florence
Michelle P. Clayton, Columbia
Christopher T. Dorsel,
Charleston
M. Britton Mason,
Charleston
Christopher H.
Pearce, Myrtle Beach
Nosizi Ralephata, Charleston
David R. Sligh,
Myrtle Beach
Special Counsel
Catherine H. Kennedy,
Columbia
Of Counsel
Thomas M. Kennaday,
Columbia
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