Beth Chiarello focuses her practice on defending companies in mass tort, toxic tort, products liability, class action, and other complex litigation disputes. She is a vigorous advocate both inside and outside the courtroom, as she represents clients in significant and high-stakes litigation matters. She has defended class actions and mass tort cases on behalf of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including industrial services, medical device, contract sterilization, pharmaceutical, electronics, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, cosmetics, food, nutritional supplements, and other types of consumer and industrial products. She has served as national coordinating counsel in a variety of nationwide putative class actions and mass tort lawsuits filed in federal and state courts.

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A solutions-oriented litigator, Brett focuses on finding the most beneficial outcome for his clients, whether through trial, mediation, arbitration or other goal-based strategies.

Brett also devotes a substantial portion of his practice to pro bono efforts and presently serves as an arbitrator in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for landlord/tenant disputes and has also represented indigent clients in protection from abuse cases.

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David recently led the defense of Sutter Health, a hospital system in Northern California, in an antitrust class action alleging that Sutter restrained competition by allegedly forcing insurers to include certain hospitals in their provider networks and forbidding them from steering patients to other hospitals. After a month-long trial, the jury returned a unanimous defense verdict and rejected plaintiffs’ claims for $1.2 billion in post-trebled damages. In addition, David led the defense of Marathon Petroleum in obtaining summary judgment in an antitrust class action in which plaintiffs alleged that Marathon and other major refiners conspired to reduce supply and thus inflate the price of gasoline and sought $72 billion in treble damages.

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He has particular experience representing businesses in the manufacturing and rail transportation industries in complex commercial litigation

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John is a former federal law enforcement agent and Air Force officer who has extensive experience guiding corporate clients in a variety of matters involving commercial contracts, construction defects, corporate insolvency, and both state and federal constitutional matters.

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Dick has served as lead counsel in trials involving a wide variety of products and subjects, including the chemical industry, petroleum companies, automotive manufacturers, recreational vehicles, pulp and paper manufacturers, tire manufacturers, manufacturers and retailers of consumer products, drug and medical device companies, building and construction products, material handling equipment, trucks and heavy vehicles, construction equipment, industrial systems, HVAC manufacturers, communications systems and waste treatment and disposal products.

Dick is listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers (2009-2023). He earned the Chapter Service Award from the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2019. In 2015, he received the Trial and Appellate Advocacy Award from the South Carolina Bar, and the Leadership in Law Award from South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. He holds an A+ rating from Martindale Hubble and is listed in Who’s Who in American Law.

Dick has tried over 40 jury trials to verdict in twelve states and has argued appeals in the 3rd, 4th and 11th Circuits and before the South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in South Carolina and Georgia.

Dick is an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, teaching Trial Advocacy, Law and Rhetoric and Law and Literature. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator in South Carolina. He is a regular writer and speaker on trial advocacy and product liability issues and is a recipient of the Burton Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.

Dick earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1981. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1978.

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