Personal injury lawyers in Charleston.
Personal injury attorneys serving Charleston, South Carolina.
Top-rated personal injury lawyers in Charleston.
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Faith Deredge
AttorneyFaith Deredge is a Prelitigation Associate in the general negligence practice at Ashcraft & Gerel, based in the firm's Silver Spring, Maryland office. She earned her B.A. in Criminal Justice & Criminology and Sociology from the University of Maryland College Park in 2014 and her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2019. Faith began her legal career working with attorney Gabriel J. Christian, gaining experience in personal injury, family law, criminal defense, and business law. She has litigated numerous cases throughout Maryland, including securing a settlement for a pregnant woman who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning due to landlord negligence.
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Benjamin Douglas
AttorneyBenjamin Douglas is a non-equity partner at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, where he focuses his practice on assisting injured employees with their workers' compensation claims. Before joining the firm, he practiced workers' compensation law in Sacramento, California, handling a wide variety of orthopedic, internal, and psychological injury cases.
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Stephen Gensemer
AttorneyStephen M. Gensemer is a Partner at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, representing injured clients in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. He has obtained jury and court verdicts ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to a $10 million verdict in the Prince George's County Circuit Court, and recently secured a $462,000 federal court judgment for a client struck by a tractor-trailer. His practice areas include car accidents, criminal defense, dog bite injuries, general negligence, and major disaster litigation.
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Cade Gossett
AttorneyCade M. Gossett is an attorney at Ashcraft & Gerel focused on complex mass tort litigation, particularly the Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Litigation, where he advocates for service members and their families exposed to contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Cade graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2021 with a B.A. in Communications and earned his J.D. from Charleston School of Law. During law school he served as President of the Charleston School of Law Ambassador Program, Vice President of the Trial Advocacy Board, and was named Senator of the Year as a 3L Senator in the Student Bar Association. He taught weekly classes and coached mock trial through the Street Law Clinic, and joined Ashcraft & Gerel as a Law Clerk in May 2023.
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James Green
AttorneyJames F. Green is Of Counsel (and previously Senior Partner) at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, with nearly 40 years as a litigator. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, serves as an active lecturer and author for local and national Continuing Legal Education programs, and has developed a substantial national mass tort and personal injury practice. He has been appointed by federal court judges to serve on multi-district litigation committees handling product liability cases for prescription drugs including Fosamax, Rezulin, and Zyprexa. His career has produced hundreds of verdicts and settlements for clients in Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland.
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Shane Hursh
AttorneyShane H. Hursh is an attorney at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, focusing on complex mass tort litigation involving toxic exposure and products liability, environmental law, and veterans law. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, he attended Azusa Pacific University in Southern California as an NCAA student-athlete, completing both his B.A. in Philosophy and his M.B.M. in five years. He earned his J.D. cum laude from Charleston School of Law with Presidential Honors, served as Student Bar Association President, completed over 300 hours of pro bono service, and received the Keith J. Williams Award.
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Jamie Karek
AttorneyJamie L. Karek is a Workers' Compensation Attorney at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, with over 15 years of experience representing injured workers in Virginia workers' compensation cases. Originally from Buffalo, NY, she earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Canisius College, a master's degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law. Before joining Ashcraft & Gerel, she served as a Partner at Commonwealth Law Group and previously practiced at Geoff McDonald & Associates. She represents injured workers through all case phases including appellate proceedings.
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Justin Lerche
AttorneyJustin Lerche is a Senior Associate at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, working out of the firm's Fairfax, Virginia office. He has exclusively represented injured plaintiffs since law school, focusing on general negligence cases including auto accidents, animal bites, and other personal injury matters. After graduating, he worked at a boutique personal injury firm in Fairfax County before joining Ashcraft & Gerel, building experience in trial work, appeals to Virginia appellate courts, and litigation across Northern Virginia jurisdictions.
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Patrick Lyons
AttorneyPatrick K. Lyons is an associate attorney at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, where he focuses his practice on defective product claims. He has been with the firm since 2015 and has primarily worked on cases involving vehicles, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and cosmetics. He currently concentrates on representing women who have used talcum powder products and been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, handling cases filed in both federal and state courts across the country. While in law school, he clerked at the D.C. Attorney General's Office and interned at a U.S. Attorney's Office, a private law firm, and a district attorney's office.
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Stuart McCluer
AttorneyStuart H. McCluer is a Managing Partner at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, with nearly 20 years of experience representing plaintiffs in complex commercial litigation. He has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients ranging from State Medicaid programs to rice farmers, with extensive experience in pharmaceutical and healthcare fraud cases. He served as outside counsel to the States of Mississippi, Oklahoma, Ohio, Montana, and Utah in healthcare fraud matters and was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee in In re McKesson Governmental Entities AWP Litigation, a nationwide RICO class action that settled for $82 million. He earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law, then clerked for the Honorable Callie V.S. Granade, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama.
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R. Bryant McCulley
AttorneyR. Bryant McCulley is the Managing Partner and Owner of Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, having joined in March 2021. He is an experienced trial lawyer whose practice spans antitrust, securities, healthcare, and mass tort matters. Notable results include leading work on an $82 million settlement in a nationwide RICO class action and a $24 million settlement in a multistate indirect purchaser antitrust class action; collectively, antitrust matters in which he has been involved have recovered over $2 billion. He has represented clients in mass torts including the BP Oil Spill and Camp Lejeune water contamination cases, and has served as outside counsel to the States of Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah in healthcare fraud litigation. After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Karon O. Bowdre of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
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Michelle Parfitt
AttorneyMichelle A. Parfitt is a Senior Partner at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP and head of the firm's Mass Tort practice. Over more than thirty-eight years, she has distinguished herself as a leader in mass torts, focusing on pharmaceutical and product liability cases. She has represented thousands of individuals in state and federal courts across the country in suits against pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and has been appointed to numerous Plaintiffs' Steering Committees in national mass tort and complex litigations. She currently serves as Co-Lead Counsel in the Talcum Powder MDL and is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable attorneys in medical science and expert testimony preparation.