Practice Areas
Please feel free to have a look below to discover in which areas of law we practice and represent clients.
Auto Accidents
The Stevens Law Firm handles all types of automobile accidents and the lawyers here take a personal interest and become personally acquainted with each case.
We also have experience in handling the following automobile cases:
- Accidents involving trucks.
- Accidents caused by intoxicated drivers.
- Accidents that cause closed head injuries, paralysis, back injuries, neck injuries, and all other bodily injuries.
- Accidents that have caused deaths.
Insurance Claims
This firm handles property losses by fire, flood, windstorm, life insurance claims, and cancellation, business losses, medical insurance claims, disability insurance claims, failure to place insurance requested, credit insurance, and marine insurance.
Product Injuries
Have you ever bought a product that didn’t work the way you believed it would or should when you bought it? When you used it, did it cause damage to your property, make you lose money, or hurt you in some way?
Injuries in Public Places
Unreasonably dangerous conditions present in public places or businesses often cause injuries. Owners of businesses as well as municipalities owe a duty to keep areas where the public is invited safe from unreasonable danger.
Dog Bite Injuries
South Carolina law holds the owner of a dog strictly accountable for injuries their dog causes. As a matter of law, if a dog bites and causes damages, the owner is responsible for the damage it causes.
Employment Termination
Stevens Law Firm has handled many cases that deal with employment. We have brought suit against employers for discrimination, wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, violation of South Carolina Payment of Wage Act, sexual harassment, etc.
Defamation
Is also known as slander, libel or disparagement. It means the act of harming the reputation of another by making a false statement to a third person.
Invasion Of Privacy
This is an unjustified exploitation of one’s personality or intrusion into one’s personal activity, actionable under tort law and sometimes under constitutional law.
Tortious Interference With A Contract
A third party’s intentional inducement of a contracting party to break a contract, causing damage to the relationship between the contracting parties.
Contracts and Contract Disputes
We advise clients on regarding questions about their contract. We draft contracts for clients.
Business Law
Forming Corporation, Limited Liability Company, and Professional Association for our clients.
Deeds, Estate Planning and Trusts
Making sure your estate and personal matters are in order for your heirs can give you peace of mind. We advise and draft wills, trust, deeds and other documents that suit your real and personal property needs.
Probate and Deeds Disputes
We handle cases that involve disputes arising from wills and deeds created under duress or undue influence. It may be possible to set aside transfers of property if proven that transfers were made under duress or undue influence.
Banking Practices/Foreclosures
Making sure your estate and personal matters are in order for your heirs can give you peace of mind. We advise and draft wills, trust, deeds and other documents that suit your real and personal property needs.
Fraud Cases
In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain. Fraud is both a civil wrong (i.e., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud and/or recover monetary compensation) and a criminal wrong
Commercial & Construction
Litigation And Mechanics Liens
Commercial & Construction Litigation And Mechanics Liens
Worker Compensation
Employers carry workers compensation insurance to cover their employees for accidents that may cause injuries to their employees that happen while they are at work.
Wrongful Arrest
False arrest is an arrest made without a warrant or probable cause. False arrest is a form of false imprisonment conducted by a party who claims to have authority to make the arrest.
False Imprisonment
False imprisonment is a restraint of a person in a bounded area without justification or consent. False imprisonment is a common-law felony and a tort. It applies to private as well as governmental detention.