Law Offices of Gedney M. Howe, IV

Law Offices of Gedney M. Howe, IV "We don't have files that sit. Our job is to initiate the next move, to always be moving the case.”

05/29/2026

Yesterday Columbia thought the world was ending. Turns out it was just a sonic boom.

For about 15 minutes, South Carolinians collectively became meteorologists, physicists, conspiracy theorists, and Facebook experts.

The good news: we’re all still here.
The bad news: Uncle Alvin is still convinced it wasn’t aliens.

05/27/2026

One of the greatest stories never told is Santee Cooper v. Great Western Coal. I never even managed to get the full story from my old man. It wasn’t until recently when I started digging into old newspaper articles that I realized that scale of the case, not to mention its endless twists and turns.

SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY,
Plaintiff,
v.
GREAT WESTERN COAL (KENTUCKY), INC.; GREAT WESTERN COAL, INC.

05/22/2026

The day before Thanksgiving 1990 Gedney III filed a complaint and began one of the wildest legal sagas in South Carolina.

CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY,
Plaintiff,
v.
GREAT WESTERN COAL (KENTUCKY), INC.; GREAT WESTERN COAL, INC.;

05/19/2026

This is less of a marketing video and more of a warning about something I’ve been seeing.

75% of American children ages 9–12 play Roblox every day. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told Congress last month that it is “a primary location where suspects meet and recruit minors for abuse.” 12 state attorneys general have filed lawsuits. 3 have already settled for $34 million.

South Carolina parents deserve answers. Talk to your kids, check their accounts, warn your friends, and push for big tech to be held accountable.

05/14/2026

State legislators continue to debate a bill that would require restaurants to disclose if their shrimp is domestically-caught or imported. They were unable to reach an agreement on May 14. (Full story below.)

05/11/2026

Somehow the shrimp jokes and laying in the street aren’t the most controversial part of these videos. Any time I post something or end up on the news, there’s a lot of talk about the way I talk. I take a lot of flak for it, and I’m not sure what to tell you.

It’s been a little more than a year since I lost my father. He was a great friend and a wonderful teacher.One of the mos...
05/09/2026

It’s been a little more than a year since I lost my father. He was a great friend and a wonderful teacher.

One of the most exciting adventures we ever had together was traveling to Washington, DC to fight for the victims of the Emanuel Nine shooting. We met with Merrick Garland and Brian Boynton at the Department of Justice, and our clients shared the horrors of their experiences firsthand. That was in August of 2021. Three months later, we settled the case with the DOJ and the FBI.

That case was an incredibly formative experience for me as a first-year attorney. I am eternally grateful to Andy Savage and Gerald Malloy for associating Dad in those cases and for letting me work on them. Getting to represent the families and to spend time with Felicia and Polly was a privilege and honor I will never forget.

What my father taught me, his parents taught him: take the hard fights. Take the impossible ones. Everyone deserves someone fighting for them.

Between the two of them, Addy Lee and Maggie have been in and out of my office for the last two, two and a half years. T...
05/07/2026

Between the two of them, Addy Lee and Maggie have been in and out of my office for the last two, two and a half years. They’ve worked on some really complicated, dense legal matters and did it all with such grace, tenacity, and grit.

I have zero doubts they’re going to crush the bar exam and go on to have bright careers as
lawyers. We’re so proud of them and everything they’ve accomplished to get here. They’ve truly earned this graduation.

They’ve managed to keep up with me, weather the storm of Alvin Hammer, and still humor Michael Monastra.

These two are the end of an era though. Addy and Maggie are the last law clerks that got to work with my dad. They stuck with me through some pretty difficult days, learned a lot, and I’ll forever be grateful to them. I look forward to seeing them do great things.

05/07/2026

Trial consultants didn’t start in a Manhattan boardroom. They started on St. Helena Island. Stepheney Robinson, Dr. Buzzard, Root Doctor extraordinaire would sit in the gallery, chew the root, and turn witnesses into wrecks giving them the hairy eyeball. Juries softened. Verdicts moved. Sheriff McTeer spent 37 years trying to put him in a cell before he finally gave up and learned root work himself. The inspiration behind Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The original trial consultant. Low Country roots run deep.

Street lawyering, that’s what my daddy used to call it.I go where the work takes me, from factories, fields, to accident...
05/06/2026

Street lawyering, that’s what my daddy used to call it.

I go where the work takes me, from factories, fields, to accident scenes, even in the woods.

You can’t work on a case if you don’t understand the where and the what. It’s impossible to be aggressive on one if you’ve never put eyes on the scene yourself.

So we get out there, and we get out there fast. Because evidence doesn’t get preserved if you’re sleeping at the office.

Loafers on the ground. Eyes wide open.

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