Gedney M. Howe IV

As a third-generation attorney with enthusiasm for representing victims in products liability and personal injury claims, Gedney M. Howe IV looks forward to carrying out his Father and Grandfather’s philosophy of “doing justice and healing the minds of his clients.”

Gedney was admitted to practice law in South Carolina in 2020. Since becoming a member of the Bar he has obtained significant recoveries in many complex cases through both verdicts and settlements in a variety of cases, participating in intense litigation against large corporations.

Before joining the firm in 2020, Gedney clerked for Senator Richard A. Harpootlian, P.A. in Columbia, where he gained valuable experience in both civil and criminal defense. He previously worked as a law clerk for the insurance defense firm Hall Booth Smith, P.C.’s in their Charleston office. During his undergraduate studies, Gedney worked as a legal assistant at McGowan, Hood, & Felder, LLC, a civil litigation firm in Rock Hill, S.C.

He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the ABA Young Lawyers Division, the South Carolina Association for Justice, and the American Association for Justice.

Gedney earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2020 and a degree in Political Science from Winthrop University in 2017.

The Law Offices of Gedney M. Howe, III, P.A., helps clients with products liability law in South Carolina. The firm works with injured victims to show the court & insurers when a strict liability theory holds:

• The product was defective, which made it unreasonably dangerous.
• The victim used the product the way it was supposed to be used.
• The defect in the product caused the victim’s injury.
• The victim suffered damages because of the injury.

Victims of injuries caused by a defective product have very clearly defined rights against the manufacturer. The law provides for victims to recover under a strict liability theory, which means that if certain conditions existed at the time of and to cause the injury, then the manufacturer is strictly liable, or responsible.