Background
Unger, Richard Mahlon was born on June 14, 1945 in Walterboro, South Carolina, United States. Son of Henry Wayne and Keith (Jeffries) University.
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Richard Mahlon Unger
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Bachelor, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1967. Juris Doctor, University South Carolina, 1970.
Career
Worked at Rogers Townsend & Thomas, Personal Computer (Columbia, South Carolina) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Trials and Appeals. Administrative, Bankruptcy, Corporate Finance, Corporation, Development and Zoning, Domestic/Family, Energy, Estate Planning, Governmental, Insurance Defense, Litigation, Mortgage Foreclosure, Motor Carriers, Negligence, Personal Injury Litigation, Probate, Products Liability, Real Estate, Regulatory Utility, Taxation, Telecommunications, Trusts, Water/Wastewater, Wills and Workers" Compensation Law. Admitted to the bar, 1970, South Carolina and United States.
District Court, District of South Carolina.
1974, United States. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit. Phi Delta Phi. Member, City of Columbia Zoning Board of Adjustments, 1980-1993, Chairman, 1991-1992.
Hearing Officer, Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, 1993-1994. Member: Richland County (Member: Fee Disputes Board, 1990.
Estate Planning and Probate Section) and American (Member, Section Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations.
South Carolina Bar (Member, Section on Probate, Estate Planning and Trust Law. Member House of Delegates). Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors).
Palmetto Land Title Association (Board of Directors).
Military: Captain, United States. Army, 1971-1972
Rogers Townsend & Thomas, Personal Computer is a general practice law firm with offices headquartered in Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina.
The firm was created in 1990 by the merger of Rogers, Thomas, Cleveland, Koon, Waters & Tally with Sherrill and Townsend. These two firms combined established reputations and years of legal experience to create one of Columbia"s largest law firms.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman City of Columbia Zoning Board Adjustments, 1988-1993. Member finance committee Jim Leventis for Congress, 1988. Board directors Palmetto Land Title Association, since 1994.
Captain United States Army, 1971, vietnam. Member American Bar Association (commission on regulations and land sales since 1988, commission on real property, probate and trust law since 1988, commission on tax since 1995), South Carolina. Bar Association(house of deals/probate, estate planning and trust section, tax section since 1993, real estate section), National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce of C. (board directors since 1995, member board directors since 1996), Windermere Club, Masons.
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Married Katherine L. Smith, March 29, 1967. Children: Richard M. Junior, Dorothy Katherine.
