Henry L. Parr, Jr

Antitrust and Trade Regulation

Appellate Advocacy

Class Action Litigation

Construction

Health Care

Insurance Coverage

Litigation

Outside General Counsel

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Clients rely on Henry to manage their most serious challenges. He has handled a broad spectrum of high stakes problems, lawsuits, and arbitrations for businesses and individuals for more than thirty years, often for returning clients.

Henry has represented plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts, and also frequently sits as an arbitrator on a wide range of complex business and health care disputes. He has presented cases to juries and has also presented appeals to the South Carolina Court of Appeals, the South Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. His cases have included class actions involving software, electrical outlets, insurance, securities, and arbitration, as well as individual lawsuits involving a wide range of complex civil litigation matters such as defective products, wrongful termination, commission disputes, conspiracy, patent infringement, slander, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, constitutional law, healthcare, insurance coverage, and contractual disputes.

In addition, Henry has represented clients before administrative law judges. He frequently serves as an arbitrator in matters involving claims up to and exceeding $60,000,000, including class actions. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is a member of a number of arbitration panels, including the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center (HKIAC), the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (CPR), American Health Lawyers Association arbitration panel (AHLA), and the American Arbitration Association’s national large and complex case panel and appellate panels (AAA).

Henry also advises clients on antitrust, distribution and trade secret issues and in the preparation of distribution and trade secret agreements. Henry leads our Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Health Care practice groups. He served as an advisor to the American Law Institute project to draft the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance.

South Carolina Bar

United States Supreme Court

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

United States District Court for the District of South Carolina

Global Chair, Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice Group for Lex Mundi

American Law Institute, Member, 1985-Present; Advisor for Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance; Consultative Group for the Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition

Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Permanent Member

Obtained summary judgment for business in contractual dispute with counterparties in the United States and Canada in a lawsuit involving claims in excess of $6,000,000

Obtained summary judgment for a leading seller of software and hardware in federal court in Columbia, SC in a lawsuit involving antitrust, unfair trade practices, conspiracy, and wrongful termination claims exceeding $100 million

Obtained verdict in excess of $2 million in trade secrets lawsuit involving the defense industry in federal court in Anderson, SC after jury trial

Obtained award in excess of $1 million in commercial arbitration contract dispute

Obtained summary judgment for newspaper accused of antitrust violations in federal court in Anderson, SC

Obtained award in excess of $100 million in commercial arbitration matter

Successfully defended clients accused of criminal price fixing in jury trials in federal courts in Richmond VA, Greenville, SC and Charleston, SC

Obtained a certificate of need for hospital client after three-week trial before administrative law judge

Lead counsel for petitioner in Spencer v. South Carolina Tax Commission 281 S.C. 492, 316 S.E. 2d 386 (1984), aff’d by an equally divided court, 471 U.S. 82 (1985)

Obtained injunction against wrongful use of trade secrets for nuclear industry contractor

Served as lead South Carolina counsel in multi-state litigation against LCD panel manufacturer

University of Virginia School of Law