Carl F. Muller, Member
- Class Action Litigation
- First Amendment
- Health Care
- Litigation
- Media and Communications
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability
Representative Matters
- Acquisition and assembly of various manufacturing facilities into a $500M+ company
- Design and implementation of financial and legal structure for leveraged buy-out of $300MM+ company
- Pre-packaged bankruptcy reorganization of multi-state real estate limited partnership
- Counsel to manufacturers, hospitals, physicians and university for corporate affairs and litigation
- Medicare fraud lawsuit against major university and related physician group resulting in then largest South Carolina health care settlement in favor of United States government
- Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against major university foundation resulting in upheaval of university affairs and state and national journalism awards for client newspaper
- Dismissal of numerous libel and invasion of privacy lawsuits against major newspaper, television and magazine clients
- Blocked divestiture of major state university hospitals and medical facilities to out-of- state Fortune 500 company
- Won one of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts in South Carolina
- Successful defense of two death penalty cases
Professional Background
| 1977-Present | Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, P.A. |
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Educational Background
| 1977, J.D.,M.B.A. | Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School |
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| 1973, A.B. | Harvard College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Detur Prize, Saltonstall Prize |
Professional Activities and Memberships
- American Bar Foundation, State Chair, 2005-Present
- South Carolina Legal Services, Vice Chairman and Board member, 2006-Present
- South Carolina Bar, House of Delegates, 1992–95, 2000–02, 2006-Present
- Legal Services of Western Carolina, Board, 1988–90
- Defender Corporation of Greenville County, Board, 1992-Present
Bar and Court Admissions
- South Carolina Bar, 1978
Representative Community Activities
- Greenville Technical College Arts and Sciences, Advisory Board, 1989–93
- Phillis Wheatley Association, President 1985,1986; Board Member, 1981–2006
- Greenville Chorale Board, 1991–95
- Boy Scouts of America: Unit Commissioner, 1996–97; Philmont, 2004, 2007; National Jamboree Staff, 2005
- Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Minority Affairs Advisory Council, 1994–97
- City of Greenville Diversity Study Committee, 2003
- Harvard Alumni Association, Regional Director, 2002–04; Chair, alumni Leadership Conference, 2004 and 2005; Co-Chair, Clubs Committee, 2006-Present; Nominating Committee for Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors, 2008
Awards and Honors
- Carnegie Hero Medal, 1965
- Honor Medal, Boy Scouts of America, 1965
- Best Lawyers In America for First Amendment Law, 2005–2008
- Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007
- Martindale Hubbell, AV Rating