Wallace

Bruce is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation Group.

• Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Estate/Trust Fiduciary Litigation
• Insurance
• Professional Liability
• Real Estate Litigation

Bruce represents insurers and corporate clients in bad faith and coverage issues, professional liability, business litigation, as well as fiduciaries in probate litigation matters (including trusts and estates). Bruce also has experience representing clients in lender liability, corporate dissolution, and real estate litigation.

Bruce actively participates in the Defense Research Institute, where he is the past program chair for the Professional Liability Committee. In the past, Bruce served as Online Community chair, Annual Meeting chair, and vice chair of the Lawyer Malpractice SLG of the Professional Liability Committee, and chair of the D&O and E&O SLG of the Commercial Litigation Committee.

Bruce is a certified Circuit Court mediator and approved mediator for the United States District Court. He also served on the South Carolina Bar Association's Board of Governors from 2017 to 2020.

• Accident, Injury & Rehab., PC v. Azar, 943 F.3d 195, 200–01 (4th Cir. 2019) – CMS reimbursement litigation. Fourth Circuit held the district court possessed subject matter jurisdiction to hear medical provider’s claim for injunctive relief.

• BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Insurance (Charleston), 2017, 2020, 2025
  • Commercial Litigation, 2015-2026
  • Litigation – Insurance, 2015-2026
• Martindale-Hubbell®
  • AV® -Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
• South Carolina Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers®
  • Business Litigation
• Charleston Business Magazine
  • Legal Elite of the Lowcountry, 2022-2023, 2025
• University of South Carolina, Compleat Lawyer Award, Gold Category, 2020

• South Carolina, 1996
• U.S. District Courts
  • South Carolina: District of South Carolina
• U.S. Court of Appeals
  • 4th Circuit
• US Court of Federal Claims

• University of South Carolina, J.D., 1996
• University of Virginia, B.A., 1993

• Defense Research Institute
  • Professional Liability Committee
    • Program Chair, 2019
    • Program Vice Chair, 2018
    • Communities Chair, 2016-2017
    • Vice Chair, Legal Malpractice Substantive Law Group, 2013-2015
  • Commercial Litigation Committee
    • Chair, D&O and E&O Substantive Law Group, 2008-2012
• South Carolina Bar
  • Board of Governors, 2017 - 2020
  • Law Related Education Committee
  • House of Delegates, Ninth Circuit, 2004-2017
  • Chair Elect, Trial and Appellate Advocacy Council Section, 2016
  • Nominating Committee, 2012-2014
  • Professional Liability Committee
  • Diversity Committee
• Charleston County Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
  • South Carolina Chapter Board of Directors, 2008-2012
• Lowcountry Citizens Committee on Judicial Qualification, 2003-2007

• Bruce is a frequent author and speaker. He is the author or co-author of several CLE publications and speaks at CLE seminars.
  • Defending Lawyers in the Age of Cynicism: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in South Carolina Legal Malpractice Actions, March 2019
  • South Carolina Lawyer
    • Co-Author, Roadmap to Collection – How to Navigate Debtor Exemptions in South Carolina, S.C. Lawyer, September 2018
    • Show me the Money: Collecting Judgments Against the Savvy Judgment Debtor, September 2016
    • Serving the Master: Challenging the Authority Power or Jurisdiction of the Master-in-Equity, January 2015
    • "With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Getting out of Default is Never Easy", November 2013
  • DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar
    • Strategies to Obtain Early Settlement of General Aviation Claims, Co-author, Skywritings, May 2014
    • "Going Deeper – South Carolina Expands the pool of Plaintiffs in Estate Planning Malpractice", November
      2014
    • South Carolina chapter on the Collateral Source Rule & Compendium for Professional Liability Insurance, DRI
      (2012)
    • Regional Editor, Unfair Trade Practices Compendium, DRI (2005)
    • Co-author, Using Non-Reliance Clauses in Defense of Fraud Claims, The Business Suit, 2006

• Chair, Board of Directors, North Charleston Dental Outreach