Kerry Jardine is a Partner in the firm’s South Carolina and New York offices and a member of the Commercial Litigation, Class Action, Intellectual Property, Employment, Construction, Antitrust, and Artificial Intelligence practice groups. Kerry is a seasoned litigator with her practice focused on complex commercial disputes and employment law. She has represented clients in a wide range of high stakes business disputes, including intellectual property litigation, antitrust and unfair competition litigation, class actions, partnership dissolutions, commercial contract disputes, and real estate and construction dispute. Kerry also represents employers in all areas of employment law. In addition, Kerry has experience in securities law, banking and finance law, professional liability, and product liability law.
- Obtained summary judgment for a client invalidating a county ordinance based on state preemption grounds. The client owned property it wished to use as a mine and secured all necessary state approvals, but was denied a mine permit by the local County Council. The District Court for South Carolina found that South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has exclusive authority over mine permitting and the local mine permit ordinance conflicted with that authority. The Court also found that the ordinance at issue provided the local County Council with an impermissible veto power over DHEC decisions. After securing summary judgment, and additional negotiations with the County, the client was able to begin utilizing his property as a mine.
- Negotiated settlement on behalf of a home owners’ association (HOA) after five years of litigation regarding whether certain covenants restricted the use of the land applied to the abutting and closed golf course that was intertwined with the home owner’s association’s property. The HOA did not want the golf course to be developed. The golf course owner wanted to develop the golf course into a residential community. In a complicated settlement, the HOA agreed to purchase portions of the golf course property to preserve the HOA’s neighborhood. The settlement allowed the golf course owner to develop other parcels of property. The resulting settlement should be a model for how home owners’ associations generally should deal with the closure of abutting golf courses when the golf course owner wants to develop the property and the home owners’ association wants to preserve its community.
Admissions
- South Carolina
- New York
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Eastern & Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Community Involvement
- Member of the Board of Directors of South Carolina Women’s Lawyers Association January 2024 – present
- Member of the Board of Directors of New Directions for Horry County (focuses on homelessness and poverty alleviation) July 2020 to June 2024
Education
- J.D., St John’s University School of Law
- B.A., English, City University of New York – Hunter College, cum laude