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Mr. Fred Thompson III
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About Mr. Fred Thompson III With decades of diverse experience in personal injury, commercial and toxic tort law, Fred Thompson represents people harmed by negligence, product defects or misconduct. As a leader of the medical litigation team, Fred manages cases related to defective medical devices, harmful pharmaceutical drugs, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse.Fred is Liaison Counsel for a multidistrict litigation, In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2873, alleging severe health complic...
About Mr. Fred Thompson III
With decades of diverse experience in personal injury, commercial and toxic tort law, Fred Thompson represents people harmed by negligence, product defects or misconduct. As a leader of the medical litigation team, Fred manages cases related to defective medical devices, harmful pharmaceutical drugs, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse.Fred is Liaison Counsel for a multidistrict litigation, In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2873, alleging severe health complications and environmental harms associated with the use of firefighting Aqueous Film-Forming Foams, which contain toxic PFAS chemicals. He has been appointed to numerous leadership positions,… Read more
SC trial lawyer Ron Motley dies at age 68
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Celebrated South Carolina lawyer Ron Motley has died at the age of 68, law partner Joe Rice confirmed Thursday. No cause of death was given for the trial lawyer, and funeral arrangements have not been announced. Motley served as lead counsel in lawsuits that ultimately yielded the largest civil settlement in U.S. history in which the tobacco industry agreed to reimburse states for smoking-related health care costs. As part of the Ness Motley firm, he also sued on behalf of asbestos victims and the families of the Sept. 1...
Celebrated South Carolina lawyer Ron Motley has died at the age of 68, law partner Joe Rice confirmed Thursday.
No cause of death was given for the trial lawyer, and funeral arrangements have not been announced.
Motley served as lead counsel in lawsuits that ultimately yielded the largest civil settlement in U.S. history in which the tobacco industry agreed to reimburse states for smoking-related health care costs.
As part of the Ness Motley firm, he also sued on behalf of asbestos victims and the families of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack victims.
Motley's practice underwent a transformation in 2003 when he and Rice formed the Motley Rice firm. The Mount Pleasant-based practice is one of the largest plaintiffs' firms in the country. The name change was partly because 13 attorneys and about 40 support staff left to form a new firm, Richardson Patrick Westbrook & Brinkman, in 2002.
The family of deceased South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Julius "Bubba" Ness also sued the firm, saying the Ness portion of the name should be dropped since the practice was no longer connected to the family. Ness' son-in-law, Terry Richardson, was among the lawyers who left to form the new firm.
On Thursday, Richardson remembered Motley _ with whom he practiced for nearly 30 years _ as a tenacious attorney who was a major figure in a time when plaintiffs' law experienced a renaissance.
Law license suspended for Mount Pleasant attorney accused of obstructing justice
Gregory Yee
The S.C. Supreme Court has suspended a Mount Pleasant attorney’s law license after she was arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice last month. Melisa White Gay, 55, was arrested in February by the State Law Enforcement Division and charged with a single obstruction count, according to jail and court records. The Supreme Court announced its decision to...
The S.C. Supreme Court has suspended a Mount Pleasant attorney’s law license after she was arrested on suspicion of obstructing justice last month.
Melisa White Gay, 55, was arrested in February by the State Law Enforcement Division and charged with a single obstruction count, according to jail and court records.
The Supreme Court announced its decision to suspend Gay’s license Wednesday until further order of the court.
Her legal practice was placed under receivership and she was barred from making withdrawals from any of her bank accounts, according to the order. The court-appointed receiver was also given authority to receive Gay’s mail.
Gay’s alleged misconduct stemmed from her representation of Dwayne Walker, a 39-year-old North Charleston resident who was arrested in December by SLED on one count each of cocaine trafficking and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, according to an affidavit.
The attorney called Walker’s girlfriend while she was meeting with her client and told the girlfriend to move cash and paperwork from Walker’s residence, the affidavit said. Gay also told the girlfriend to take the money to one of Walker’s associates, it said.
SLED agents who were with Walker’s girlfriend overheard the conversation, the affidavit said. Gay admitted to making the call and admitted to agents that she knew her instructions amounted to illegal activity.
Her obstruction case is pending in court.
Sarah Miller Attorney at Law
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Sarah Miller Attorney at Law Butler & College 501 Belle Hall Parkway, Suite 101 Mount Pleasant 843-284-8676 www.bandclawfirm.com A graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Financial Management, specializing in real estate, Sarah Miller decided to continue her education and attend law school, concentrating on estate planning and real estate. Since graduating from the Charleston School of Law, she has focused her practice on estate planning, ...
Sarah Miller Attorney at Law
Butler & College
501 Belle Hall Parkway, Suite 101
Mount Pleasant
843-284-8676
www.bandclawfirm.com
A graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Financial Management, specializing in real estate, Sarah Miller decided to continue her education and attend law school, concentrating on estate planning and real estate. Since graduating from the Charleston School of Law, she has focused her practice on estate planning, probate and real estate. She was hired by Butler & College Law Firm in February 2016 to manage their estate planning division and assist clients with real estate transactions.
Miller helps families make important plans for the future.
“Estate planning is difficult and emotional to think about because it means you are planning for unfortunate circumstances – death and incapacity,” she said. “But it is necessary to make plans so that loved ones won’t run into problems down the road.”
“My goal is to make legal matters as painless as possible. It makes me happy to be able to help people throughout some of life’s most challenging times,” she said.
Mount Pleasant attorney’s law license suspended six months for misconduct
Gregory Yee
A Mount Pleasant attorney’s law license has been suspended for six months after she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful communication. According to the S.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the suspension for Melisa White Gay’s license would be retroactive to the date of her interim suspension, which began March 21, 2018. “I feel fortunate that the decision from the Supreme Court allows me to begin the process for reinstatemen...
A Mount Pleasant attorney’s law license has been suspended for six months after she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful communication.
According to the S.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the suspension for Melisa White Gay’s license would be retroactive to the date of her interim suspension, which began March 21, 2018.
“I feel fortunate that the decision from the Supreme Court allows me to begin the process for reinstatement to the South Carolina Bar,” Gay said. “I look forward to resuming my practice as soon as I can.”
The original felony obstruction of justice charge she faced was dropped.
Gay, 56, must pay “the costs incurred in the investigation and prosecution of this matter” within the next 30 days, according to the Supreme Court ruling.
In addition, she will have to “demonstrate her compliance with” legal ethics rules, including completing a Legal Ethics and Practice Program school within the past year.
Editor’s note: A previous version story incorrectly stated Melisa White Gay’s plea agreement. She pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of unlawful communication.