About Stephanie Hunt
Stephanie Hunt is a writer/editor based in Charleston, SC, with more than 25 years experience writing features, profiles and essays for numerous publications. In addition to being a regular contributor to Super Lawyer, she is Editor at Large for Charleston Magazine, and writes regularly for Veranda, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Faith & Leadership (Duke University), LUXE, and is a stringer for the Washington Post. An avid cyclist and conservationist, she is a graduate of Duke University and Vanderbilt Divinity School, and the mother of three girls.
Articles written by Stephanie Hunt
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Jack Swerling is less fearsome than his courtroom moniker ‘Mr. Murder’If you find yourself charged with murder or other serious crimes in South Carolina, chances are good you’ll end up knocking on the door of “Mr. Murder.” At 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds, Jack Swerling is an intimidating presence anywhere, but in the courtroom, he’s known to go for the jugular. In cross-examinations, he unleashes his killer intellect and booming oratorical force on behalf of his clients—many of them alleged or admitted murderers. The notorious Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins …
Son of the Sage of the South
The third Gedney M. Howe continues his father’s tradition of amassing successful results for his clientsIn Charleston, the name Gedney M. Howe is legendary two times over. “I ain’t the real Gedney Howe,” Gedney Howe III says with a laugh, paraphrasing what a friend of his father’s once told him. Despite Howe III’s accomplishments in the courtroom, including successful results for his clients in many high-profile cases, one of which remains South Carolina’s largest-ever personal injury verdict, he doesn’t consider the comment an insult. When your name is Gedney Howe, that talk simply …
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