Luanne Lambert Runge

Practice Areas

• Business and Commercial Litigation
• Class Actions
• Electronic Discovery
• Healthcare and Benefits
• Professional Negligence

Background

With over 19 years of litigation and trial experience and service as law clerk to the Honorable C. Victor Pyle, Jr., shareholder Luanne Runge knows her way around a courtroom. Runge shares the benefit of that litigation experience with her healthcare and business clients, whom she represents in all types of litigation and in regulatory matters. She has defended health insurers in state and federal class actions over the calculation of insurance benefits and reimbursement to physicians. She also defends attorneys, health care professionals and institutions in malpractice lawsuits. Additionally, Runge shares her talents with the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, where she currently serves as Chair-Elect and will serve as Chair in 2013. She is also honored to be a member of the Liberty Fellowship (Aspen Institute) and to serve as Co-Chair of its Public Policy Forum.

Education

• J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 1992
• B.A., cum laude, Wake Forest University, 1989

Publications

• Privity Requirement in Legal Malpractice Claims in Estate Planning: Is it still enforced?
  By Luanne Runge and Mary Giorgi - Professional Liability Committee Newsletter, IADC, January 2010
  
  
• "Spoliation: A Trap for the Unwary" E-Discovery Connection, DRI

Support Staff

• Mary Beth Morgan
  

Bar Admissions

• South Carolina, 1992
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1994
  

Professional Associations & Memberships

• International Association of Defense Counsel
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Defense Research Institute
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys' Association
• South Carolina Bar
• 2012 Chair-Elect, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
• Former General Counsel, Greenville Chamber of Commerce
• Co-Chair, Public Policy Forum, Liberty Fellowship (Aspen Institute) 
• Liberty Fellowship Class of 2009
• Board of Directors, Greenville County Schools Foundation
  

Honors and Awards

• 2012 Best Lawyers in America, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
• 2012 Women in Achievement Award, YWCA of Greenville
  
• 2007 Chairman's Award, Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce
• Greenville Magazine's Best & Brightest, 35 and Under
• Managing Editor, Wake Forest Law Review
• American Jurisprudence Award, Legal Research and Writing

Notable Cases

• Covan et al. v. Blue Cross Blue and Blue Shield of South Carolina et al.
  
• Hawkins v. City of Greenville, 594 S.E. 2d 557 (S.C. Ct. App. 2004)
• Balcor Equity Prop. XVIII v. Caligo, Ltd., 2000 WL 1853087 (4th Cir. 2000), aff'd, 2002 WL 1837940 (4th Cir. 2002)