Professional Liability

Turner Padget has in-depth experience in serving professionals with critical issues, including litigation, that not only affect their careers, but also their livelihoods and their professional reputations.  For more than seven decades, our professional liability attorneys have worked with the following clients: 

• Accountants
• Attorneys
• Directors and Officers
• Brokers
• Insurance Agents and Brokers
• Engineers
• Medical Professionals/Medical Malpractice

We serve these professionals inside and outside the courtroom doors, providing counsel with legal advice and direction to avoid professional claims and, when claims arise, navigating the litigious business environment to aggressively defend them in the courtroom.

Selected representation includes:

• Representation of an audit firm in the multi-million dollar business failure of a mortgage company with issues involving deepening insolvency and the issuance of a going concern opinion.
• Defense of a law firm involving issues of Federal banking regulations and loss of business opportunity.
• Representing a law firm against allegations of negligent handling of anti-trust litigation and abandonment. 
• Favorable settlement for an accounting firm in a suit involving forensics accounting services.
• Defending a lawyer against a claim that a will he prepared and witnessed execution contained a forged signature of the testator.
• Obtained summary judgment based on a statute of limitations defense in a case against a lawyer alleging improper distribution of settlement proceeds
• Obtained favorable settlement (during first day of trial) of claim against law firm involving allegations of negligent preparation of a will.
• Obtained directed verdict in favor of real estate agent in lawsuit alleging negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and fraud.
• Obtained summary judgment based upon lack of personal jurisdiction on behalf of an out of state law firm accused of conspiring with client to hide assets from claims of creditors.

Attorneys

Shareholder
Arthur E. Justice, Professional Liability Practice Leader, Florence
John K. Blincow, Charleston
R. Gerald Chambers, Charleston/Columbia
Charles E. Hill, Columbia
John Wilkerson, III, Charleston

Associates

Ashley S. Heslop, Charleston
J, Jakob Kennedy, Florence

Anne Marie Hempy, Columbia

Of Counsel
Richard S. Dukes, Charleston