Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  That’s just one example of the high-stakes cases that have characterized Ashmore’s career. Ashmore brings to his civil litigation and criminal defense practice an incisive intellect and sense of integrity. In court, it doesn’t hurt that his distinctive South Carolina drawl enhances his way with a story.
• DUI/DWI
  More than 35 years of criminal trial experience handling State and Federal prosecutions from DUI and murder to securities fraud and white collar cases.
• Wrongful Death
  From auto accidents to wrongful death, representing both individuals and families, with significant experience dealing with insurance companies.
• Fraud
  His roster of fascinating cases ranges from a defendant found innocent of six counts of mail fraud after the defendant’s brother-in-law in the same company was sentenced to 10 years in prison, to a fight over a $200-million machine that makes toilet paper. (Don’t ask.) He has argued before the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Yet some of his greatest achievements are ones he can’t discuss. “My best cases are those where people and corporations don’t get charged,” he says.
• White Collar Crimes
  Mr. Ashmore has represented hundreds of individuals in State and Federal criminal courts in cases from DUI to murder. He has significant experience in white-collar crimes, including securities fraud, healthcare fraud, investment schemes, environmental crimes, and long-term government investigations of individuals and corporations. In 2009, his client, accused of a $12 million mail fraud scheme, was found not guilty on all six counts after a four-day jury trial in Federal court in Anderson, South Carolina.
• Misdemeanors
  After a jury was chosen in federal court, the government dismissed three felony wire fraud charges, and Mr. Ashmore’s client pled guilty to a single misdemeanor offense.
• Assault
  Mr. Ashmore has handled hundreds of State and Federal court prosecutions over the past 35 years. Assault & battery, drug, mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, and securities fraud charges are among the numerous criminal cases he has tried. Mr. Ashmore obtained a not guilty verdict in a week long Federal jury trial in which his client was indicted for conspiring in a $12 million dollar fraudulent scheme.
• Murder
  Mr. Ashmore’s client was found not guilty of murder in the death of her husband after a four-day jury trial in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
• Money Laundering
  The dollar amounts can be sizable. In one receivership project, Ashmore and his investigative team had to locate assets belonging to three men convicted of running an $82 million Ponzi scheme. Ashmore found and sold vacation homes, pro football stadium boxes, pricey cars, a Gulfstream jet and more. In another case, Ashmore had the pleasure of traveling to the Bahamas, meeting with the attorney general there, and shutting down a bank that was little more than a front for money laundering.
• Manslaughter
  “The physical facts at trial established that this was an accidental but admittedly reckless discharge of a firearm, and therefore involuntary manslaughter was the appropriate charge,” Ashmore says.

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Ashmore and his team analyzed 17,000 different financial transactions as part of their research into the scam. They found 28 vehicles, a jet (which Ashmore sold to an Arab sheik), a million-dollar motor coach, three condos in Atlanta, real estate in Florida, cash, jewelry and houses. From the proceeds, 3,800 investors have received more than 50 percent of their initial investments back—“one of the highest recoveries in recent memory,” according to the business law blog Ponzitracker.

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Stephanie Gray has been practicing law since 2006 and joined Beattie B. Ashmore, P.A. in 2010. She is accomplished in analyzing and briefing complex legal issues, focusing on motion practice, discovery, and appellate advocacy across numerous substantive areas, including false claims, statutory interpretation, personal injury, criminal law, and constitutional violations. She has served as the principal drafter of briefs to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, South Carolina Supreme Court, and South Carolina Court of Appeals. She has also served as second chair trial counsel to Beattie B. Ashmore. Prior to joining the firm, Stephanie Gray focused on insurance defense, litigating cases involving coverage disputes, construction defect, contractual indemnification, pollution, asbestos, bad faith, trademark infringement, and copyright infringement. She has also advised corporate clients on non-litigation matters, including privacy law compliance, employee termination, and document retention.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Mr. Ashmore has handled significant personal injury cases representing both individuals and the families of those who have been injured or lost loved ones due to the actions of others.
• Medical Malpractice
  As an attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina in the early 1990s, Mr. Ashmore tried cases including asset forfeiture, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. While in private practice, he has appeared on behalf of plaintiffs as well as defendants in significant civil litigation in State and Federal courts. Stephanie Gray brings with her experience in litigating cases involving insurance coverage, construction defect, contractual indemnification, pollution, asbestos, bad faith, trademark infringement, and copyright infringement. Contact Us
• Auto Accidents

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy