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Throughout my childhood, I had many different ideas of what I wanted to be when I grew up.  The one common theme was people-I always wanted to be working with people.  Both estate planning and family law have allowed me to prusue my goal of working with people.  My clients are all real people and families, not corporations and businesses.  It is a tremendous responsibility being entrusted with advising my clients regrading their familial and financial issues, but one that I enjoy doing.  Family and finances are of the utmost importnance to me, and I take my clients' very seriously as well.

RPWB asbestos attorney Karl Novak has devoted more than 30 years to putting together compelling cases on behalf of workers who developed cancer and lung disease as a result of asbestos exposure.. Novak is sensitive to the wishes of his clients and adjusts his approach accordingly. Whether that is a quick, painless resolution, justice with an iron fist or something in between, Novak puts his clients and their needs first.. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Novak was the first in his family to attend college. He worked his way through school in the steel industry, and has devoted his entire career to representing mesothelioma and other asbestos-exposure victims. He moved to South Carolina in 1989 to work for Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, and joined RPWB as a founding member in 2002.. Novak has represented tens of thousands of asbestos victims throughout the United States. With an avid interest in genealogy and oral history, he compiles documents and interviews his client, family members, co-workers, physicians and experts to tell the story of where the exposure took place, who is responsible and what impact the disease will have on the victim and their family.. Novak has two grown children. When they were younger, he enjoyed coaching their baseball and soccer teams, including one special team that went undefeated for three straight seasons. He splits his time between South Carolina and Maine, and spends a lot of time on the road working with his clients.. Areas of Practice. Admissions. Education. Professional Memberships

NOTICE: ANY RESULT STEPHAN FUTERAL OR HIS LAW FIRM MAY ACHIEVE ON BEHALF OF ONE CLIENT IN ONE MATTER DOES NOT NECESSARiLY INDICATE SIMILAR RESULTS CAN BE OBTAINED FOR OTHER CLIENTS.. Stephan Futeral is an experienced Charleston attorney who handles lawsuits in South Carolina's state and federal courts. As a trial lawyer located near Charleston, South Carolina, Mr. Futeral deals with many types of legal matters involving consumer law, employment law, business law, DUI / DWI defense, personal injury, auto accidents, wrongful death, medical and legal malpractice, products liability, divorces, child custody and visitation, and criminal defense, to name a few.. Before attending college, Stephan Futeral served in the United States Army from 1982 to 1985 and the United States Army National Guard from 1985 to 1987. While in the military, Mr. Futeral worked with strategic nuclear weapons and was a tactical satellite communications operator in the European Theater. He was also a member of the 440 Armor Unit, Fort Carson, Colorado. Further, he participated in such mass military exercises as Return of Forces to Germany and Desert Chief III.. In 1990, Mr. Futeral graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.S. in Business Administration. Throughout his attendance of the College of Charleston, he was a member of the National Dean's List. In 1990, he received the Outstanding Student Award. He also received the National Collegiate Business Merit Award and the All-American Scholarship Award. Mr. Futeral is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Fraternity.. In 1993, Mr. Futeral received his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Futeral was a member of the Moot Court Bar and the Order of the Barristers. He also was a student editor of the American Bar Association's Real Property and Trust Journal.. After graduating law school, Mr. Futeral was the judicial clerk for the Honorable C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. Thereafter, he practiced law in Columbia, South Carolina for several years until returning to his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. Futeral is a partner in the law firm of Futeral & Nelson, LLC and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Charleston School of Law. He has written articles for the South Carolina Lawyer magazine and the American Bar Association Magazine. Further, he has published a legal annotation regarding the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act in South Carolina Jurisprudence. He has been an instructor for the South Carolina Mandatory Magistrate's School and, in 1997, taught the paralegal certification program in Charleston sponsored by the University of South Carolina. Mr. Futeral frequently lectures to non-lawyers and attorneys on such topics as personal injury practice and employment law.

My work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney gave me a deep appreciation for the power of the prosecutor to impact a person or company's well-being. In the criminal context, it helped me to learn how to objectively analyze a case and dig deep into the facts because initial appearances can truly be misleading. In the civil context, I helped defend medical malpractice cases against the federal government. I represented the Veterans Hospital, the Marine Corps Hospital, the Navy Hospital, the U.S. Air Force Clinic, and federally funded Health Care Centers. My time as an AUSA gave me broad trial court experience.

Kevin Campbell was admitted to the practice of law in South Carolina in 1973. He is certified by the State of South Carolina as a specialist in helping both financially troubled individuals and businesses. He has been certified by the American Bankruptcy Institute, a national organization, as an expert in consumer and business bankruptcy law.. His expertise includes assisting his respected clients with work-out arrangements with their creditors, Chapter 7 cases and Chapter 11 cases.. He was recently selected to the 2014 SC Super Lawyers list and included in The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law.. He was Past President of the Mt. Pleasant Exchange Club for 2011-2012. The Mt. Pleasant Exchange Club is a community service organization that raises money for the prevention of Child Abuse through a Race that it organizes, the IOP Connector Bridge Run/Walk for the Child each October. Kevin also was Race Chairman in 2009.. He was past President of the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association, past President of the Consumer Credit Association, and former member of the Parish Council at Christ our King Church in Mt. Pleasant.

Emily G. Johnston practices family law in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and the surrounding Charleston low country area with a unique skill set to offer her clients. She is highly regarded as a family law attorney having earned both her MBA and JD from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1984. She uses her MBA to assist with issues related to complex and substantial assets, business valuation, and any financial matters related to divorce. Ms. Johnston has significant trial experience and is accustomed to complex business issues, including valuation of business assets determining true income, and protecting financial needs for her clients' future as they move through divorce.EGJ Family Law practice has evolved to focus on all aspects of the law in order to help families plan for and recover from a marriage that has come to an end. She advocates for cooperative resolutions: however she is trial savvy should your case require it. With over 30 years of experience helping families in South Carolina. Emily uses her expertise of a Certified Family Court Mediator, divorced working mother of 3, and experienced litigator.Emily's Mount Pleasant law firm offers clients a warm welcome, strong family focus, and a commitment to resolve complicated or contested issues. With a non-judgemental approach and years of wisdom, Emily and her team are more than prepared to help you transition into your new life.

Christopher Tuck has focused his career on representing consumers across the United States in class action litigation. He enjoys the complexity of the practice and the novel issues that can arise in such cases.. Tuck began his career working for the largest plaintiff’s firm in Wisconsin, where he litigated mass tort cases that led to a landmark $1 million verdict in latex allergy litigation that was ultimately affirmed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In 1998, he relocated to South Carolina to assist on the historic governmental tobacco cases, and quickly found his calling in class actions at RPWB.. As part of the consumer class action team, Tuck has worked on a spectrum of class cases that impact diverse areas of the law. This background provides Tuck with a depth of experience to navigate complex legal issues for his clients.. Tuck is married with two children. An avid Green Bay Packers fan, he is always waiting for the next great moment for the Green and Gold.

Charles Patrick is a distinguished litigator who has played integral roles in some of the most significant public health litigation in American history, including state tobacco cases that led to the historic national master settlement.. He is a founding member of RPWB and serves on the firm’s three-person executive committee.. Born in North Carolina, Patrick’s father was in the mining business and brought the family to Jonesville, South Carolina. Charles met his wife, Celeste, at Furman University, where he was a history major. The pair married after graduation and both headed to Columbia, where Charles studied law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and Celeste began her study of medicine.. While in law school, Patrick was executive editor of the law review. He soon joined Terry Richardson and Ron Motley, who were heavily involved in the early stages of asbestos litigation, and became the first attorney with Blatt & Fales to work out of an office in Charleston in 1980.. Patrick and the rest of the small firm focused a great deal of time and energy on asbestos litigation, which was a cutting-edge area of law at the time. Their efforts to bring justice to hard-working men and women were soon bolstered by the discovery of internal documents proving manufacturers knew of the health consequences of asbestos.  In all, Patrick tried more than 50 individual asbestos cases and four mass asbestos consolidations. Many thousands of workers who suffered the crippling health effects of asbestos exposure continue to benefit from the firm’s work.. In 1988, the firm changed names to Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole and soon thereafter began to set its sights on holding big tobacco accountable for causing the largest public health crisis in the world.. Patrick was an initial member of the Mississippi tobacco trial team that pioneered the concept that a state entity is entitled to recover healthcare costs from tobacco companies for the damages caused by the use of their products. He played a pivotal role in crafting the legal theories and building the evidence required to bring such cases. Litigation on behalf of attorneys general in Mississippi, Florida and Texas settled for a combined $40 billion and tobacco companies soon entered into a $200 billion master settlement with the remaining states. This money has been used to compensate states for their healthcare spending and to educate the public and, in particular, children about the very serious risks of using tobacco products.. In 2002, Patrick joined three other partners to form RPWB. The following year, he helped prepare a class action brought by smokers of “light” cigarettes against Phillip Morris in Illinois. The case, tried by other RPWB lawyers, resulted in an $11.5 billion verdict. Although the judgement was reversed by a narrow majority of the Illinois Supreme Court, the theory advanced by the class has been approved as valid in other state courts and the matter is still under appeal.. Patrick remains heavily involved in tobacco litigation and other public health matters on behalf of governments. He is a foreign legal consultant for six Canadian provinces seeking to recoup public health spending.. Outside of his law practice, Patrick and his wife own Patrick Properties, a hospitality company that owns and operates several Charleston-area special events venues and restaurants, including Fish, the American Theatre, the William Aiken House and Lowndes Grove Plantation. The company has been credited with jumpstarting redevelopment along Upper King Street in downtown Charleston, and received the National Historic Preservation Award from the National Trust for Historic Places.. Charles and Celeste Patrick have served on a number of civic boards and charitable organizations, including the Trident United Way, Charleston Promise Neighborhood, Conservation Voters of South Carolina, Southern Environmental Law Center, Lowcountry Chapter of the American Lung Association, Furman University Board of Trustees, MUSC Foundation Board, Charleston Stage, Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the Gaillard Performance Hall Foundation and Management Corporation.. The couple has two children, both of whom have followed in the family businesses. Their son, Charlie, is a prosecutor with the Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office and their daughter, Laura, owns the Bay Street Biergarten.. In his spare time, Charles enjoys playing tennis, hiking, reading and spending time in the mountains.. Tobacco Litigation. Patrick was a member of the famed trial team that advanced the legal theory that tobacco companies should have to reimburse state governments for public health spending on tobacco-related illness. He represented more than 40 states in litigation that settled for $240 billion.. In addition to cases on behalf of the government, Patrick has tried four individual lung cancer cases and a case against Lorillard tobacco company based on the claim that a plaintiff’s lung cancer was caused by asbestos in the filters of Kent cigarettes.. In 2003, he assisted in the preparation of Price et al. v. Phillip Morris, a class action in Illinois that alleged the company misled smokers by marketing “light” cigarettes. The case resulted in an $11.5 billion verdict, which is currently under appeal.. He continues to serve as a foreign legal consultant for six Canadian provinces – British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan – in their pursuit to be reimbursed for public health spending on tobacco-related illnesses.. Asbestos Litigation. Patrick was among a small group of attorneys who pioneered asbestos product liability litigation in the 1970s and 1980s on behalf of workers who developed serious health conditions, including mesothelioma and asbestosis. He has tried more than 50 individual cases and four mass asbestos consolidations throughout the country. Patrick has contributed chapters about the medical issues resulting from exposure to toxic substances to legal textbooks, and appeared on the History Channel for a program that focused on the knowledge of the scientific, medical and industrial communities about the hazards of asbestos.

Annie focuses her practice on nursing home abuse and neglect, civil rights violations, and various personal injury matters. An experienced litigator, Annie worked for seven years as a trial attorney at the Charleston County Public Defender’s office, where she tried numerous cases to jury verdict and zealously fought for the rights of more than 1,000 individuals.. Annie is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. She was recognized by Super Lawyers and named among the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” by the National Trial Lawyers. She received the 2021 Emerging Leader award from the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA) and was recognized by Charleston Business Magazine’s 2021 Women in Business for her important contributions to the legal community. Annie received the “Star of the Quarter” award from the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division in 2019 and that same year, was named the “Juvenile Public Defender of the Year” for the state of South Carolina.. While representing incarcerated children, she went beyond simply defending their cases and sought to reform the juvenile justice system by challenging the constitutionality of solitary confinement and the use of restraint chairs in juvenile jails. Her criminal justice reform efforts resulted in the closure of the fifty-year-old dilapidated Charleston County Juvenile Detention Center, ending decades of unconstitutional confinement of youth. Annie also increased access to books in juvenile jails by collecting over 4,000 young adult books to build or revamp libraries in juvenile jails within Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville –also for the benefit of her young clients.. During law school, Annie volunteered at the Charleston County Public Defenders office, and One80 Place homeless shelter’s legal clinic helping homeless individuals with various legal matters, and was recognized at her law school graduation for performing over 500 hours of pro bono service. Annie is admitted to the South Carolina Bar and U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, and is involved in the Charleston County Bar Association, Berkeley County Bar Association, and the SC Association for Justice. Her current community involvement is extensive and includes serving as a board member of Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to expanding legal services for low-income South Carolinians, and serving as a board member of the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA), an association that connects and empowers women lawyers throughout South Carolina. Annie is a former member of the SC Bar’s Elder Law committee, the SC Bar’s Protecting Our Youth Committee, Charleston County Juvenile Drug Court, and a graduate of the SC Bar’s Leadership Academy (Class of 2018).

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Experienced H attorney serving clients in Mount Pleasant and surrounding areas.

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Experienced H attorney serving clients in Mount Pleasant and surrounding areas.

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