Lauren Spears Gresh
Biography
Lauren Spears Gresh is a Partner in our Charleston office who concentrates her practice in the health care industry with an emphasis on medical malpractice litigation, dental malpractice, and professional malpractice and ethics. She defends hospitals, physicians, dentists, chiropractors, and other medical professionals in a wide variety of claims.
Lauren also represents medical professionals in matters before respective licensing boards and peer review committees as well as with handling matters involving regulatory compliance. Lauren has represented health care providers in all stages of litigation from pre-suit investigation through to trial and appeal.
She has been recognized as a South Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star and South Carolina Legal Elite in medical malpractice. Lauren is licensed in both South Carolina and Georgia.
Credentials
Admitted
State Courts:
- South Carolina
- Georgia
U.S. District Courts:
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Education
- J.D., Charleston School of Law
- B.A., English Studies, Wofford College
Memberships
- Charleston County Bar Association
- DRI
- South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association
Recognition
- Legal Elite, Medical Malpractice Defense; Charleston Business Magazine; 2022-2024
- South Carolina Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2020-2023
Presentations
- How to Avoid Medicare Fraud and Abuse in Managed Care
HBS Women’s Forum, July 2018 - Defining Medical Damages: Changing the Landscape of Damages Analysis
AIG Healthcare Seminar, December 2015 - Affordable Care Act Considerations and Implications: Preparing for Change and Getting Ahead of the Curve
ACI’s Advanced Forum on Medical Professional Liability, October 2014
Publications
- Debunking Trial Fiction: Five Common Myths of Trials and Why We Should Not Be Afraid to Try Cases
DRI – For the Defense, October 2020 - Are We Afraid to Take Cases to Trial? Five Common Myths of Medical Malpractice Trials and Why Cases Should be Tried
DRI – For the Defense, 2020 - Are We Afraid to Take Cases to Trial? Five Common Myths of Medical Malpractice Trials and Why Cases Should be Tried
Inside Medical Liability, a PIAA Publication for the Medical Professional Liability Community; 2017 - Navigating the Affordable Care Act in Medical Malpractice Litigation: What Does the Future Hold?
ICLE – Georgia Damages, 2014 - Til Equity Do Us Part: Equitable Distribution of Property in Marital and Non-Marital Relationships
Charleston School of Law Equity Publication, Spring 2012