About Us

The Hartman Law Firm LLC was founded by Mr. Hartman in 2011 in Charleston South Carolina. Mr. Hartman worked with a prominent local firm prior to opening his own firm. During the three years of his employment Mr. Hartman tripled the settlement results for his clients. His experience in the industry led him to conclude that giant plaintiff firms put their own bottom line above their clients best interest settling their clients cases on a case volume practice as opposed to getting the ideal results for their client or profit over people. Insurance carriers are extremely aware of the large firms reputation for settling cases for less than their actual values so they offer drastically less knowing these kinds of claims are likely to settle anyway. Mr. Hartman opened his own firm so he could help his clientele get the very best settlement outcomes and because he thinks the people of South Carolina are entitled to far better.

Mr. Hartman recently achieved a settlement on behalf of his client a Beaufort SC woman involved in a slip and fall claim obtaining a 230000.00 settlement deal with a maximum possible recovery of 300000.00 had death happened.

Mr. Hartman is a local boy who returned to serve his home town. Born at the Baptist Hospital in Columbia SC his family moved to the Isle of Palms when he was two years old. Mr. Hartman was raised on the Isle of Palms attended Sullivan s Island Elementary School Porter Gaud High School and is a James F. Byrnes Scholar and an alumnus of the College of Charleston. He graduated from The Florida State University School of Law in 2006. Mr. Hartman was an exchange student to the University of Groningen the Netherlands while in undergraduate school. He studied at Oxford University England and Erasmus University in Rotterdam the Netherlands while in law school. Mr. Hartman speaks Dutch and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Russian bringing a multicultural viewpoint to his practice. His uncle Cotton Harness served the people of the Low Country for thirty years in Environmental Law and was a forerunner and advocate for mediation in South Carolina. His father Pogo Hartman was a successful personal injury lawyer in Columbia SC.Today Mr. Hartman is a well respected and successful attorney in South Carolina a member of the Charleston Bar Association South Carolina Bar Association American Bar Association and The South Carolina Association for Justice. Mr. Hartman is Episcopalian by faith and a published author penning Tyger River Redux an exploration of the historical foundation of insurance bad faith law in the State of South Carolina. Future publications include Ten Ways to Wreck Your Car Accident Case.