Henry P. Wall Member

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Hank is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, where he attended school on an Army ROTC Scholarship. After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law, Hank served in the United States Army, working in the attorney honors program in the Office of Chief Counsel, United States Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. He was subsequently assigned to the 101st Airborne Division Staff Judge Advocate’s office and was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Districts of Kentucky and Tennessee. While in the Army, Hank focused on federal procurement and construction litigation until resigning his commission as Captain in 1987. 

From 1987 until 1999, Hank was a partner in a large regional firm, heading the construction practice group and serving as managing partner of the Columbia office. In 1999, Hank and his partner, Wade Mullins, joined Bruner Powell.

Hank is a former South Carolina Chairman of the American Bar Association Public Contract Law Section, a member of the American Arbitration Association Panel of Construction and Commercial Arbitrators, the South Carolina Bar, the Construction Law Section of the South Carolina Bar and the Richland County Bar. Hank, who holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell and is listed in America’s Best Lawyers in the field of construction law, has taught “Public Contract Law” as an adjunct law professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Hank is married to the former Allison Royall, and they have one son and three daughters. He attends the Church of Apostles of the Anglican Mission in America. A former NCAA wrestler and lacrosse player, Hank also coaches at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School.

Publications    
  • The South Carolina Chapter, Fifty State Public Construction Contracting, Construction Law Library, Aspen Publishers, 1995
  • "Mechanic's Liens," South Carolina Jurisprudence

Reported Cases
  • International Fidelity Ins. Co. v. China Constr. America (SC) Inc., 650 S.E. 2d 677 (S.C. App. 2007)
  • Wellman, Inc. v. Square D, 620 S.E. 2d 86 (S.C. App. 2005)
  • Martin Engineering, Inc. v. Lexington County School District, 615 S.E. 2d 110 (S.C. 2005)
  • Mowrer v. Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission, 605 S.E. 2d 563 (S.C. App. 2004)
  • Cleland Constr. Co. v. Balfour Beatty, 229 F.R.D. 521 (D.S.C. 2005)
  • Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Dynamic Development, 336 F. Sup. 2d 552 (D.N.C. 2004)
  • Franklin Pavkov v. Roche, 279 F. 3d 989 (Fed. Cir. 2002)
  • Southern Contracting v. H.C. Brown, 450 S.E. 2d 602 (S.C. App. 1994)
  • American Casualty v. L-J, Inc., 35 F. 3d 133 (4th Cir. 1994)
  • United States v. Socon, 862 F. Supp. 107 (D. S.C. 1994)    
  • National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford v. City of Columbia, 907 F. 2d. 1139 (4th Cir. 1990), affirming 726 F. Supp. 1036 (D.S.C. 1989)
  • Carl Garris and Son, Inc. v. United States, 918 F. 2d 1990, reversing 90-2 A.S.B.C.A. 22,655