Lawyer Herb Louthian
"Gender, age, race-pick one," Herb says. "It's rampant among employers. The difficulty is in proving the connection between the gender, the age, the race, or the disability or national origin or religion to the employment action. But that's what we do."
He also has successfully litigated medical malpractice, other cases involving serious personal injury and construction litigation, including one for $1.4 million in a construction case in 2010. The South Carolina Bar’s Employment & Labor Law Section honored Herb as the recipient of its Distinguished Lawyer award in 2012.
In addition to his busy law practice, Herb has taught trial advocacy at the University of South Carolina School of Law for the last 33 years.
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"I love working with students and watching them grow professionally," he says. "I take great satisfaction in seeing them transform from frightened novices to people with experience and confidence."
For many of those students, some of the first practice they get is in Herb's classroom, where courtroom role-playing is a staple.
"One thing I tell my students is that everybody has a different style," Herb says. "There are lawyers that will wield a battle axe in the courtroom to whack the opposition to pieces. I prefer to use a scalpel."
Those who have seen Herb try a case in court would agree. His style has been described as calm and composed.
"Some people get red in the face and pound the table, that's not me," he says.
The competitive aspect of law is what appeals to Herb the most.
"I like the excitement of the courtroom," he says. "And I like the thrill of victory. I don't care for the agony of defeat, I never learned to like losing and I never will."
His love of exciting ventures carries forward into his outside interests, which have included glider-plane flying, bungee jumping and skydiving. He also enjoys playing tennis, working out and keeping fit, reading, and traveling.
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