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Susan Rosen is an experienced trial attorney who has represented plaintiffs and an occasional defendant in a variety of cases with an emphasis on plaintiff personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice litigation. Susan has been selected by her peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 in both the medical negligence and personal injury categories. She was the Best Lawyers’ “Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year” for Charleston in 2013 and Best Lawyers’ “Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year” for Charleston in 2018 and in 2011. Susan for many years has been selected for inclusion in the South Carolina Super Lawyers Magazine since 2008 and was featured as the magazine’s cover story in 2016. She was selected for the Leadership In Law Award in 2013 by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly and the YWCA’s Tribute to Women in Industry Award. She has received an AV rating professional rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory since 1995. She also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina from 1985 through 1998. Susan is also a Circuit Court Mediator, certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

She is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), previously serving as the President of the Charleston Chapter and the National Board Representative. She is also a member of The James L. Petigru American Inns of Court and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Susan is a member of the South Carolina Bar (served as a Member, Supreme Court Task Force on Courts; Supreme Court’s Common Pleas Docket Management Task Force; and the South Carolina Bar’s Task Force on Civil Justice); the Charleston County Bar (Chair, CLE Committee, 1989-1991 and 1996-1997; Member, Executive Committee, 1990-1992 and 2002-2005), the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Rhode Island Association (Chairperson Sub-Committee, Corporations Section, 1981-1982) and the American Bar Association (Member, Section of Labor and Employment Law and Litigation Section) Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (President's Club; Co-Chair, Ethics Committee, 2002-2004; Liaison, Women's Caucus; Birth Trauma Litigation Group); American Association for Justice (Member, President's Club); and the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association. Ms. Rosen was admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and South Carolina and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Districts of South Carolina and Rhode Island.

Susan has published and taShe has represented numerous people in medical malpractice claims and recently won one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the state - a $7 million verdict awarded by a Greenville County jury. Her prosecution of a civil murder case in a federal court in Atlanta gained national attention in 1994 and was reported on national television. She has represented clients in a variety of matters including wrongful death claims, unfair trade practices, products liability claims, medical malpractice claims, commercial disputes, and an extensive number of employment suits. and for many years has been selected for inclusion in the South Carolina Super Lawyers magazine. Ms. Rosen is also a Circuit Court Mediator, certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Ms. Rosen has been published in numerous legal publications. She authored the topic, Accountants, which was published in SOUTH CAROLINA JURISPRUDENCE, and co-authored the topic, Fraud, also published in that multi-volume treatise. Additionally, she co-authored an article entitled "Controlling Person Liability for Motor Vehicle Dealer Violations of the South Carolina Motor Vehicle Unfair Trade Practices Act: A Proposal for Reform," 47 S.C.L. REV. 349 (Winter 1996). She has lectured at legal education seminars for the South Carolina Bar, Charleston County Bar, ABOTA and the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Associations.

Ms. Rosen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell University in 1975, and graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in 1980. She served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1979 until 1980 and as associate and then General Counsel to Cranston Print Works Company, a textile printing company with corporate offices in New York City and Rhode Island.

Personal Information

Ms. Rosen was born in Norwalk, CT, and was raised in Warwick, RI, where she was valedictorian of her high school class. She played competitive golf and tennis and was a member of the varsity ice hockey team at Cornell University. Active in civic affairs, Ms. Rosen has served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Hollings Cancer Center, the Board of Directors of the Active in civic and charitable causes, Susan has served on the boards of Charleston Neighborhood Legal Assistance, Inc and Pro Bono Legal Services, Inc. She formerly served as President of the Charleston Civic Ballet and on the Board of Directors of the Carolina Lowcountry Chapter of Girl Scouts of America, Inc., My Sister's House, Inc., Charleston Theatreworks, and served as the Chairperson for the Hollings Cancer Center Citizens Advisory Board from 1996-2002.She served on the Long Range Planning Committee for The Preservation Society of Charleston. Additionally, she served on the Board of Directors of the Charleston Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, was the year 2000 Chairperson for the Komen Charleston Race for the Cure, and was Volunteer of the year in 2001. She also received the Tribute to Women in Industry Award in 1994.

Susan, her husband, Robert, and their three children live in the downtown historic district of the City of Charleston.

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