Bryson M. Geer is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who practices in Charleston. Ms. Geer handles a wide range of complex business litigation matters, including banking litigation, financial and accounting fraud cases, tax litigation, contract disputes, insurance matters, real estate disputes and shareholder and partnership disputes. 

In the financial services area, Ms. Geer routinely handles cases for lenders involving white collar crimes, including claims of embezzlement, forgery, breach of trust, check kiting and Ponzi and other financial fraud schemes.  She and another partner recently represented a U.S. bankruptcy trustee in prosecuting fraud and RICO claims against the officers of a company who had orchestrated a massive Ponzi-type scheme to defraud their clients. Following a month long jury trial in federal district court, they won a judgment on the Trustee's behalf in excess of $450 Million, the largest verdict in South Carolina history and the second highest in the nation for 2009.

Other representative cases include:

• Obtained summary judgment for large national bank in case where plaintiff alleged that bank facilitated his business partner in embezzling large sum from their business.
• Negotiated favorable settlement for large national bank in case where Plaintiff alleged that bank's negligence had facilitated con artist in perpetrating Ponzi scheme.
• Negotiated favorable settlement for client in shareholder dispute where client was accused of converting substantial company assets to his personal use.
• Obtained judgment in favor of client in arbitration in LLC buy-out dispute between former business partners where plaintiff alleged that client had prevented him from exercising options to purchase numerous properties under the buy-out agreement.
• Obtained judgment after bench trial in state court in contract dispute on behalf of high-tech security company that performed security upgrades and renovations for a county jail and administrative buildings; case settled for favorable sum on appeal.
• Defended insurance company against bad faith claims filed in federal court and obtained favorable settlement at mediation.
• Obtained summary judgment in federal court for client insurer in declaratory judgment action finding liquor liability exclusion in insured tavern's policy excluded claim from coverage.

Ms. Geer regularly appears in both state and federal courts and has tried numerous cases to verdict in state court, federal court and the SC administrative law court.  She has handled post-trial motions and appeals in both state and federal courts and is also very experienced with alternative dispute resolution methods, including arbitrations and mediations.

A member of the South Carolina and North Carolina State Bars, Ms. Geer is admitted to practice before the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts for the District of South Carolina, the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Western District of North Carolina.  She is a member of the South Carolina and North Carolina Bar Associations as well as the American Bar Association, the Charleston County Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute.  She is active in her community and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Aquarium.

Ms. Geer earned a Juris Doctor in 1997 from the University of South Carolina School of Law where she was a member of the South Carolina Law Review and served as a legal writing instructor.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Davidson College in 1993.