Brandt Horton practices primarily with the Trucking and Transportation, Products Liability and Retail/Hospitality Liability Practice Groups. Brandt focuses his practice on the defense of cases involving catastrophic injury and death. He has also developed, and presented on, a successful approach for obtaining a Plaintiff’s social media information and activity through the discovery process.
Brandt has extensive trial experience, including cases involving truck accidents, wrongful death, and Dram Shop liquor liability. He has obtained defense verdicts in both state and federal courts in South Carolina.
Admitted to practice
- South Carolina, 2004
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2006
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2004
- University of South Carolina, B.A., 2001
Memberships
- Charleston County Bar Association
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- American Bar Association
- ALFA International
- Trucking Industry Defense Association
- South Carolina Trucking Association
- South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association: past Chair of the Trucking Substantive Law Committee
Articles / Case Studies
- South Carolina Supreme Court Affirms Summary Judgment Based on Pre-Market Approval under the Medical Device Amendments of 1976, by Duke R. Highfield and Brandt R. Horton
- South Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Restatement’s Negligent Entrustment