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Beattie B. Ashmore Attorney at Law
Beattie Ashmore is a former Federal prosecutor and has been Greenville attorney
in South Carolina for over twenty-three years. He has an AV rating from
his peers with Martindale-Hubbell which is the highest rank given in legal
ability and ethical standards. He was selected for inclusion as a South
Carolina Super Lawyer and no more than 5% of the bar receives this designation.
Mr. Ashmore, defense attorney greenville sc, has represented hundreds of individuals and dozens of corporations
in civil and criminal cases. He has been associated by some of the largest
law firms in the country. Mr. Ashmore’s areas of legal practice include
criminal defense, civil litigation, white collar crimes, personal injury,
wrongful death, and appellate practice.
Mr. Ashmore was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina as were his
parents and grandparents. He graduated from the College of Charleston in
1981. After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law
in 1986, he clerked for Bankruptcy Judges in South Carolina for four years.
From 1990 through 1996, Mr. Ashmore was a Federal Prosecutor in the U.S.
Attorney's Office in South Carolina. He spent three years in the civil division
and three years in the criminal division. He defended the United States
and its agencies in all areas of civil litigation and prosecuted hundreds
of individuals and corporations.
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Ashmore is an AV ® Peer Review Rated defense attorney who represents
clients in federal and state criminal matters across the State of
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Significant Legal Cases as a Greenville SC Lawyer:
- In 2009, Mr. Ashmore's client was found not guilty on all six counts
of mail fraud after a jury trial in Federal Court in Anderson, South
Carolina. Mr. Ashmore's client was accused of participating in a 12
million dollar fraudulent investment scheme.
- In 2008, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by the Federal District Court in
Columbia, SC to serve as the Receiver in an 80 million dollar pyramid
scheme with over 7,000 investors.
- In 2007, Mr. Ashmore and his co-counsel won a declaratory judgment
trial in Federal Court in Spartanburg, South Carolina in which an insurance
company argued its policy did not apply in a case involving two traffic
fatalities.
- In 2007, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by a Federal Judge in Charleston,
SC to serve as Trustee in a 300 million dollar securities fraud prosecution.
- In 2006, after a two day hearing to dismiss an indictment due to an
unconstitutional search on Interstate 85, a Federal Judge in Greenville,
SC granted the motion to suppress the evidence and the indictment was
dismissed.
- In 2005, Mr. Ashmore was appointed Trustee in a lawsuit in State Court
in Greenville, South Carolina to take possession of dozens of discarded
computers that contained social security numbers of thousands of Greenville
County students and teachers.
- In 2000, Mr. Ashmore was appointed by a Federal Judge in Anderson,
SC to serve as the Receiver in a 50 million dollar pyramid scheme. Over
twenty five million dollars was recovered from around the world and
returned to 900 investors.
- In 1997, after his client was found not guilty of a murder charge
but convicted of voluntary manslaughter, Mr. Ashmore filed and argued
an appeal in the Supreme Court of South Carolina and obtained a reversal
of the conviction.
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