Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Obtained a directed verdict in the defense of a wrongful death case filed by the parents of a sixteen-year old who allegedly became intoxicated at work.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Benjamin P. Carlton is a shareholder of Richardson Plowden in the Columbia office. He is a member of the Richardson Plowden Business & Corporate Law Practice Group, and handles a diverse array of transactional and litigation matters.
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
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• Real Estate Transactions
• Easement

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Leslie A. Cotter, Jr., is a shareholder of Richardson Plowden in the Columbia office. He focuses his practice on professional (legal, accounting, medical) malpractice defense, insurance defense litigation, mediation/arbitration, employment and civil rights litigation, products liability and personal injury defense, and governmental liability defense.
• Medical Malpractice
  Marian Williams Scalise is a shareholder of Richardson Plowden in the Myrtle Beach office. She focuses her practice on medical malpractice, professional malpractice, and insurance defense. She defends hospitals, physicians, surgeons, chiropractors, dental specialists, nurses, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. Mrs. Scalise is Richardson Plowden’s first female shareholder and is a third-generation lawyer.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Ben also assists individuals with effectuating their estate planning objectives; considering and negotiating employment offers and proposed agreements, including for physicians and other health care providers; analyzing existing non-competition and similar restrictive covenants; liability protection; and other personal, contractual matters.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Successfully tried and subsequently argued the appeal in the South Carolina Supreme Court of a multi-million dollar commercial foreclosure case.
• Tax Law
  Long-time counsel to a Fortune 300 energy company in a wide variety of high-exposure personal injury and death claims, ratepayer class actions, shareholder derivative claims, securities class actions, tax litigation, expedited injunction and TRO matters involving signficant corporate assets.
• Debt Collection
  On the litigation side of his practice, Ben has represented businesses and individuals in South Carolina state and federal courts, including South Carolina appellate courts and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as South Carolina administrative and regulatory agencies. The varying subject matter of such representations include: contractual agreements, covenants, and representations; warranties; owner dissociation and disputes; securities laws and regulations and derivative actions; professional malpractice; general real estate, easement access, and road closure; insurance coverage; debt collection and enforcement; tax controversies; class actions; injunctive relief; and various tort claims.