Richard M. Lovelace, Jr.
Member
Email: rlovelace@rlovelacelaw.com

Practice Areas: Real Estate; Banking Law; Business Entities and Transactions; Civil Litigation; Estate Planning; Trusts; Probate.

Admitted: 1974, South Carolina; 1975, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and U.S. Tax Court; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court; 2003, U.S. Court of Federal Claims and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Law School: University of South Carolina, J.D., 1974

College: The Citadel, B.A., 1968

Member: Horry County (President, 1984-1985) and American Bar Associations; South Carolina Bar (Member, House of Delegates, 1976-1978); South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association.

Biography: Member, 1982-1987 and Chairman, 1986-1987, Horry County Commission on Higher Education. Board of Directors and General Counsel, Conway National Bank, 1984-2006. Board of Trustees, 1984-1994 and Chairman, 1992-1994, Conway Hospital, Inc. Faculty Member, South Carolina Bar Association Division of Continuing Legal Education, "Real Estate Development from the Construction Lender's Perspective." President, Conway High School Educational Foundation, 1986-1994. Leadership, South Carolina, 1986. Coastal Carolina Educational Foundation, 1993-1996, 1998-2003. Member, Supreme Court of South Carolina Commission on Lawyer Conduct, 1996-2004. Certificate in Recognition and Appreciation of Service to the Bench, Bar, and the Citizens of the State of South Carolina from the Supreme Court of South Carolina, 2003. Fellow: South Carolina Bar Foundation.

Military: Capt., Field Artillery, U.S. Army, 1969-1971

Reported Cases: Grand Strand Construction Company, Inc. v. O.C. Graves, Jr., Mary Virginia C. Johnson and the South Carolina National Bank, 269 S.C. 594, 239 S.E.2d 81 (1977); Edwin C. Bryson, Sr., as Trustee in Bankruptcy of George W. Kane, Inc. v. Arcadian Shores, Inc., et al., 273 S.C. 471, 257 S.E.2d 233 (1979); The Citizens & Southern National Bank of South Carolina v. Norman E. Sweet, 278 S.C.644, 300 S.E.2d 733 (1983); Renaissance Enterprises, Inc., a South Carolina Corporation, et al. v. Summit Teleservices, Inc., 334 S.C. 649, 515 S.E.2d 257 (1999); James B. Vaught, individually, and as Attorney in Fact and/or Trustee for J.M. Vaught, Jr., the Heirs of Thomas B. Vaught, the Heirs of Jean V. Powell, Carol V. Lewis, Harry R. Vaught, Vina V. Floyd, and W.M. Vaught, Jr. v. A.O. Hardee & Sons, Inc.

Transactions: Formation of Golf Trust of America, REIT.

Born: Columbia, South Carolina, 1946

ISLN: 905348115