Alternative dispute resolution

Appellate practice

Civil litigation

Condemnation law

Construction law

Corporate law

Criminal law

Domestic/family law

Insurance

Wills and estates

Practice areas.

Our law firm has helped the people of the Lowcountry for more than 35 years. We are proud that the Martindale Hubbell Company, which has 133 years of legal networking and rates over 1 million law firms and attorneys, has awarded our law firm their highest professional rating of "AV."

We handle civil and criminal cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts in the areas highlighted below:

Alternative dispute resolution: Stuckey Law Offices places a premium on effectively reducing the cost of resolving claims. We are trained and certified by state and federal courts in Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques, including mediation and arbitration, and utilize them where appropriate to avoid unnecessary trials and to reduce our clients' losses and litigation costs.

Appellate practice: Stuckey Law Offices has a long-established appellate practice which handles matters before state and federal appellate courts. In addition to litigation experience, Stuckey Law Offices requires all of its attorneys to possess top-quality research and writing skills to handle appeals at any level. Our firm regularly appears before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Civil litigation: Our attorneys at Stuckey Law Offices are active trial lawyers who possess the necessary tools and experience to litigate any matter and to advise clients of exposures, risks and probable outcomes. Our attorneys have tried thousands of cases in the U.S. District Courts, the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, the South Carolina Court of General Sessions, and numerous magistrate and municipal courts. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.

Condemnation law: Our firm specializes in condemnation law and handles cases across the state. Our attorneys advise clients about applicable federal relocation statutes and possible inverse condemnation. Our attorneys lecture on condemnation law. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.

Construction law: Stuckey Law Offices handles myriad construction claims representing insurance companies, owners, contractors, sureties, subcontractors, suppliers, architects and engineers in all types of lawsuits. Our firm will assist in negotiating contracts and handle all aspects of claims, arbitration and litigation of construction issues. We also handle construction and mechanic liens.

Corporate and business law: Stuckey Law Office's corporate law practice is substantial and wide-ranging. We are familiar with and continue to be alert to the efficiencies of cost and personnel demanded by growing companies in highly competitive industries. Our attorneys provide general counseling to clients with regard to their businesses and counsel clients in all types of corporate work, both domestic and international, ranging from sophisticated business transactions to the sale or transfer of securities through public and private offerings, to day-to-day corporate housekeeping, including personnel matters. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.

Criminal law: Our South Carolina criminal practice includes representing clients on DUI, DUS, drug charges, arrests, bond hearings, conspiracy, assault and battery, gun charges, traffic tickets and speeding tickets. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.

Domestic relations/family law: All of our attorneys have families of their own. We handle all matters before the Lowcountry's family courts from uncontested, amicable divorces to complex, multi-million-dollar contested matters. In our experience, the best legal advice for families in transition focuses not only on the emotional process of separation and adjustment, but also on the economic realities facing the new family units. We provide not only effective legal counseling, but also experienced advice on personal strategies that will enable you to move on with your life with the least emotional confrontation and the best economic result given the circumstances of our situation. We focus not only on the elements of the division of the marital estate, but on the arrangements that will best serve you and your children's well-being. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.

Insurance: Stuckey Law Offices practices in a number of insurance-related areas, including property and casualty, commercial, automobile, life and health insurance, marine, inland marine, construction, medical malpractice and other insurance policies. In addition, our firm handles third-party claims, subrogation, declaratory judgment actions, policy rescission actions, bad faith claims, and broker/agent errors and omission claims. With more than 35 years of legal and trial experience, Stuckey Law Offices understands the value of each claim, the expected litigation costs, settlement ranges and likely jury dispositions for the jurisdictions we serve.

Wills and estates: Attorneys at Stuckey Law Offices advise and assist clients in preparing wills, living trusts, irrevocable living trusts, charitable remainder or lead trusts, grantor or retained annuity trusts, and qualified personal residence trusts, and can assist clients in transferring assets into these entities. We also focus on disability planning aids, such as intervivos (lifetime) funding of trusts and power of attorney, to help clients avoid the future need for formal court-administered guardianship. We help clients define their wealth management objectives and prepare the required documents in clear, plain and legally effective language. Stuckey Law Offices provides clients with excellence, fair value and a superior work product.