Dayne Phillips
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About Dayne Phillips
Dayne Phillips is an attorney at Price Benowitz LLP focused on criminal defense in South Carolina. He has obtained numerous not guilty verdicts in felony jury trials and has successfully argued before the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Phillips earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2010 and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina in 2007. He is a graduate of the National Criminal Defense College and the National Forensic College. He is admitted to the South Carolina State Bar.
After law school, Phillips clerked for John Delgado, a prominent South Carolina criminal defense and death penalty attorney, where he assisted in murder trials and high-profile cases. He serves as President of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, on its Board of Directors, as State Delegate to the National College for DUI Defense, as a Representative to the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates, and as a Founding Member of the South Carolina Actual Innocence Justice Center. He is also Co-Founder of Direct Examination: A South Carolina Lawyer Podcast.
His honors include 2026 Best Lawyers in America (Criminal Defense: White-Collar and General Practice), Super Lawyers selection (2017-2026), a 10.0 Avvo rating, National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and an AV Preeminent peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP
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Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.
A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.
A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.
Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.
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