- Wrongful DeathBen Alexander is an experienced trial lawyer who focuses his practice on the defense of healthcare professionals. Ben has represented large health systems, free standing hospitals, national insurers of healthcare providers, physician group practices and individual nurses and physicians in both professional negligence and licensing matters. He has tried to verdict numerous cases involving allegations of wrongful death, traumatic birth injury, negligent care and treatment, misdiagnosis and lack of informed consent.
- Fraud
- Corporate LawKaitlin Beck is an associate in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Columbia office and focuses her practice on immigration and corporate law.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsOur firm's Financial Services Industry Team provides a wide array of legal services to banks and other depository institutions, finance companies, investment banking firms and other financial service providers. We regularly handle regulatory matters and provide advice on the introduction of new products or services to the financial market. We negotiate mergers and acquisitions, investment, tax-exempt bond financing and securitization transactions. We represent clients in collection, shareholder and other litigation, as well as in administrative enforcement matters.
- Business DisputesElizabeth, a Columbia native, focuses her practice on commercial litigation matters, with experience trying these cases in courts and before arbitration panels. She represents plaintiffs and defendants involved in breach of contract disputes, corporate governance actions, antitrust and competition-based issues, government licensing and public procurement disputes, and business tort matters. Elizabeth also advises clients on electronic preservation and discovery obligations and strategies.
- Business TransactionsOur Law Clerk Program is designed to provide an accurate depiction of life as a HSB attorney, to let the law clerk get to know us and to let us get to know them. We offer extensive lawyer training, guidance and opportunities for hands-on experience early in your career. Many of our law clerks work on major trials and business transactions within the first year with the firm.
- Limited Liability CompaniesScott Barnes, a Certified Tax Specialist, joined Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd in 2013. Backed by more than 48 years in the profession, Scott’s practice currently focuses on limited liability companies and partnerships, like kind exchanges, conservation easements, the tax implications of these situations and state and local property taxation. He also works with clients to advise and assist with structuring Opportunity Zone (OZ) investments and related transactions and operations, and the creation of OZ entities including the Opportunity Fund, Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses and other entity participants in the OZ transaction.
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property
- Unfair Competition
- AntitrustThe Best Lawyers in America© Antitrust Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Real Estate Law (1993-2023)
- Employment ContractNegotiating employment agreements, including confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements, independent contractor agreements, severance agreements and compensation arrangements
- Employment LitigationOur firm takes client advice and counsel work seriously because we believe that building close, trusting working relationships with our clients allows us to better help employers avoid or minimize costly resultant agency investigations and litigation. We believe that working together with our employer clients early on in the process creates more successful partnerships and fewer disruptions to business operations—often caused by administrative agency investigations and employment litigation.
- Non-compete AgreementJanuary 06, 2023 On Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule that would bar all U.S. employers from enforcing and imposing non-compete agreements on workers. The proposed rule – if ever finalized – would have significant legal and business ramifications on the U.S. labor economy.
- Severance AgreementMarch 02, 2023 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that nondisclosure and nondisparage provisions in severance agreements violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB noted provisions requiring an employee to keep the terms or existence of a severance agreement confidential or prohibiting disparagement of the employer, its affiliates, officers, managers or employees are unlawful because those provisions restrict an employee’s right to engage in concerted activity.
- Real Estate LitigationHaynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. is proud to announce that Meg Scoopmire was recently recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2023 "Lawyer of the Year" for Real Estate Law in Greenville.
- Construction LitigationConstruction disputes and litigation can devastate—even bankrupt—a business. At Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, our priority is to help you avoid legal problems with your construction projects.
- Real Estate TransactionsIn addition, Boone represents buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants in commercial real estate transactions with purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, deeds and financing documents.
- Easement
- Land Use and Zoning
- Landlord-Tenant Disputes
- Property Damage
- Personal InjuryHis practice focuses on insurance and construction cases as well as commercial litigation and the defense of personal injury lawsuits. John is also deeply involved with insurance regulation and insurance insolvency issues, serving as counsel to the South Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association.
- Medical MalpracticeGreeenville Business Magazine "Legal Elite of the Upstate" Healthcare Law (2015, 2017-2018, 2020-2022), Medical Malpractice Law – Defendant 2022 and Insurance Law 2021
- Estate Planning“Beware-bnb?: Adapting the Regulatory Approach of Community Associations to Residential Sharing & Zoning Trends,” 53 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 373, 2018
- WillsBoone also advises individuals and families on trust and estate planning, including the drafting of wills, trusts, durable powers of attorney and living wills.
- Power of Attorney
- Bankruptcy"Consideration for Adversary Proceedings (brought to you by Rotten Tomatoes)," South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association Annual Seminar, April 8, 2017
- ForeclosureMary Caskey is a Certified Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Law Specialist and leads Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Bankruptcy and Recovery practice group. She is an experienced litigator who concentrates her practice in disputes involving financial service providers and creditors’ rights for consumer and commercial debts. Mary represents national and regional banks, loan servicers and other financial service providers in a variety of issues including foreclosures, collections, adversary proceedings, workouts and loss mitigation, judgment collection and alleged violations of state and federal consumer law.
- Tax Law