Christopher Pracht

Proven Verdicts
Attorney; Partner, Pracht Injury Lawyers at Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys
Birmingham, AL

About Christopher Pracht

Christopher Pracht leads the firm's South Carolina work through Pracht Injury Lawyers, the Anderson-based practice he founded in 2022 after building his own firm and co-founding Thomason and Pracht. A cum laude graduate of Charleston School of Law who clerked for Judge J. Cordell Maddox, he has recovered more than $70 million in verdicts and settlements over 15 years of practice. In July 2022 he won a $20.73 million wrongful death verdict, the largest ever awarded in Horry County, and in 2023 alone he recovered over $17 million for clients across South Carolina and neighboring states.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$20.73 millionVerdictTop 20 in South Carolina · #10

Christopher Pracht, now with Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys' South Carolina team, was trial counsel for the estate of Zerihun Wolde when an Horry County jury returned a $20.73 million verdict against Lack's Beach Service, the private company staffing lifeguards on the stretch of Myrtle Beach where Wolde drowned in a rip current in 2018. The South Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the verdict in July 2025, and the case is credited with ending the dual-role lifeguarding model on Grand Strand beaches.

Horry County Court of Common Pleas, South Carolina · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Charleston School of Law
J.D., 2008
College of Charleston
Undergraduate, 2005

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Carolina

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.