About Sophie Dieckhaus

Sophie Dieckhaus is an attorney at Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers' North Charleston office who represents injured workers and individuals involved in personal injury accidents, including car accidents, slip and falls, animal attacks, and other negligence-based injuries. She earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018 and her Juris Doctor from Charleston School of Law in 2021. She is admitted to practice in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Washington D.C., and serves on the South Carolina Bar's Practice and Procedure Committee.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Joye Law Firm Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$262.5 millionVerdict

A federal jury awarded $262.5 million after finding that a defective rear liftgate latch on a 1985 Dodge Caravan caused a six-year-old boy to be ejected and killed in a 1994 crash; the punitive damages were later reversed on appeal and the case settled confidentially in 2001.

U.S. District Court, D.S.C. · 1997Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal jury awarded $17 million to the surviving relatives of a Canadian Army private, his wife, and their infant son killed when an XPO Express 18-wheeler plowed into slowed construction-zone traffic on Interstate 95 near Florence, South Carolina.

U.S. District Court, D.S.C. (Charleston Division) · 2018Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A Berkeley County apartment complex that failed to equip its pool gates with code-required latching hardware settled the wrongful death claim of a three-year-old boy's family for six million dollars.

Berkeley County, S.C. · 2019Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Joye Law Firm recovered $5 million for the estate of a Goodwill custodian killed when a terminal tractor with broken headlights made an illegal U-turn and struck her in a Joint Base Charleston parking lot.

Charleston County Circuit Court · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$3.6 millionSettlementTop 20 in South Carolina · #20

A South Carolina man rear-ended by a drunk driver who fled the scene recovered $3.6 million after the driver's employer disputed vehicle ownership and scope of employment, with cervical fusion and knee surgery documented.

South Carolina (venue confidential) · 2020Car AccidentsRead 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., 2021
University of Missouri-Columbia
Undergraduate, 2018

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of South Carolina
State Bar of North Carolina
State Bar of District of Columbia

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