South Carolina license and practice

R. Hawthorne Barrett is admitted to practice law in South Carolina and is a member in good standing of the South Carolina Bar (South Carolina Bar #16973, admitted November 15, 1999). Verify the current individual Bar record in the South Carolina Judicial Branch attorney directory at sccourts.org/attorneys/ before hiring an attorney.

R. Hawthorne Barrett, known as Thorne, is a shareholder at Turner Padget Graham & Laney, PA in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is a civil litigator. His work covers professional, premises and product liability, insurance issues, business disputes and constitutional law, and he has handled more than 25 cases before South Carolina’s appellate courts, several of them before the South Carolina Supreme Court. He earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1999 and was admitted to practice in South Carolina the same year. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law and Litigation – Insurance since 2018.

Matters this legal field covers

Insurance legal work may cover coverage disputes, bad-faith claims, professional and premises liability, product liability and business disputes, including appeals. Bring the policy, claim correspondence and any court filings to your first call, and ask about the deadlines and fees that apply.

Questions to ask

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