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In July 2025, Harpootlian Law obtained a bench trial verdict on behalf of the Constan Car Wash against the City of Columbia for $5.67 million in an inverse condemnation case. The City claimed it owned a portion of land upon which Constan had constructed a wall to divert floodwater and demolished the wall….

In late 2023, Harpootlian Law obtained a settlement of $1.125 million in a premises liability case on behalf of a South Carolina family. The terms of the settlement were confidential. The family was represented by Dick Harpootlian and Andrew Hand of Richard A….

A Florence County family received close to $5 million dollars for the death of their 23-year-old daughter who was hit and killed by a drunk driver and his passenger speeding down King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The cadets had been binge drinking were speeding down King Street in an attempt to beat curfew at The Citadel….

In April 2023, local barbeque legend Larry “Big T” Brown, owner and operator of Big T’s Bar-B-Que restaurants in the Lower Richland area, received $3.25 million for major injuries suffered. Tom Brigman Contractors contracted in 2020 to provide sewer construction services for Richland County,…

In January 2023, Dick Harpootlian delivered the opening remarks in what would become the longest and one of the most highly publicized criminal trials in South Carolina history. For six weeks, Harpootlian and his trial team defended a former South Carolina attorney who had been accused of murdering his wife and son in Colleton County,…

In the early morning hours of June 9, 2019, Roy Hall was traveling in his marked patrol vehicle to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, where he worked as a deputy.  Without warning, a pickup truck crossed over a median and into Mr….

Barry Reed, a Richland County resident, charged with murder, attempted murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime for an incident that occurred in Richland County on March 22, 2017. Harpootlian Law took the case and advocated aggressively for Mr….

Corey Donovan Smith, a resident of Florence, South Carolina, died as a result of a gunshot wound following an incident that occurred on December 19, 2020. The incident occurred at Motor City Market convenience store on Fairfield Road in Richland County,…

In the fall of 2018, a settlement was reached with a local roadway construction company in the death of a Richland County resident who was fatally injured in a motorcycle wreck due to a faulty construction design. While driving down the entrance ramp on Interstate along 1-20 East to 1-77 South,…

On July 25, 2017, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $280 million settlement with drug maker Celgene Corp. to settle claims the company fraudulently promoted two drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)….