Hawkins, Daryl G.
Practice Areas:
- Business Torts
- Business Fraud
- Business Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Medical Malpractice
- Environmental Law
- Professional Negligence
Past Positions:
- Chief Justice C. Bruce Littlejohn, Law Clerk, 1983 to 1984
- Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization, Member, 1992 to 1996
Education:
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina
- J.D. - 1983
- Honors: Magister, Phi Delta Phi
- Honors: Order of Barristers
- Honors: Moot Court
- Wofford College
- B.A. - 1976
Classes/Seminars:
- Taught and guest lectured, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at the University of South Carolina School of Law
- Presented, South Carolina Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Program
- Presented, John Belton O’Neal Inn of Court
Professional Associations:
- Served as the Richland County Bar's Editor of its Newsletter, The Richbar News for 5 years
- Member of the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates and is in his 3rd term
- Served as the Circuit Court Liaison for the Richland County Bar Association for nearly 10 years
- Former President of the Richland County Bar Association
- Former President of the John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court among other accolades
- South Carolina Committee on Judicial Continuing Legal Education, Member, 1985 to 1992
- South Carolina Secretary of State Corporation Blue Ribbon Committee, Member, 1991 to 2002
- South Carolina School for the Deaf, Blind and Multi-Handicapped, Member, Board of Commissioners, 1986 to 1987
- Foundation for the Multi-Handicapped, Blind and Deaf of South Carolina, Inc., Chairman, 1989
- Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Member, President, 2004 - 2005
- American Bar Association, Member
- South Carolina Bar, Member
- South Carolina Association for Justice (formerly South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association), Former Chairman, Ad Hoc Medical Malpractice Committee, 2002
- South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, Member
- The Association for Justice (formerly The Association of Trial Lawyers of America), Member
Current Employment Positions:
- Sole Practitioner
Bar Admissions:
- South Carolina, 1983
- U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1997
Honors:
- Super Lawyers in South Carolina, 2008
- “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” for South Carolina
Representative Cases:
- Holy Loch Distributors, Inc. v. Hitchcock, 521 S.E. 2d 282, 2000, SC
- Holy Loch Distributors, Inc. v. Hitchcock, 503 S.E. 2d 787, 1998, SC App.
- Anonymous v. S.C. Board of Medical Examiners, 496 S.E. 2d 17, 1998, SC
- Widewater Square Associates v. Opening Break of America, Inc., 460 S.E. 2d 396, 1995, SC
- Sierra Club v. Kiawah Resort Associates, 456 S.E. 2d 397, 1995, SC
- Trousdell v. Cannon, 572 S.E.2d 264 (SC 2002)
- Ranucci v. Crain, 763 S.E.2d 189(SC 2014)
- Brouwer v. Sister of Charity Providence Hospitals,et al, 763 S.E.2d 200 (SC 2014)