Jonathan A. Marcantel graduated from the College of Charleston, cum laude, with B.A.s in political science and history. Thereafter, Marcantel graduated, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, Marcantel worked for the Honorable Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, and served as a research editor on the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal. After law school, Marcantel clerked for the Honorable William L. Howard Sr., South Carolina Court of Appeals Judge. Thereafter, he was an associate attorney at Finkel & Altman, LLC, where he was statewide local counsel for both a major financial institution and an international software company. In 2006, Marcantel entered academia, first at the Charleston School of Law and now at Lincoln Memorial University School of Law. Marcantel has served as an Assistant Editor for the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, an adjunct professor of political science at the College of Charleston, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Ethics Advisory Committee, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Professional Responsibility Committee, a member of the South Carolina Bar's Resolution of Fee Disputes Board, an arbitrator for the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office, and an elected member of the South Carolina Bar House of Delegates.
Articles
Rome is Burning: Piercing the Corporate Veil and the Injustice of Equity, Forthcoming (2009)
Ordinarily, individual shareholders are immune from the liability arising from a corporation's activities through the...
The Crumbled Difference Between Legal and Illegal Arbitration Awards: Hall Street Associates and the Waning Public Policy Exception, (accepted: Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law) (2008)
As a matter of general contract law, illegal contracts are unenforceable in court pursuant to...
CLE Papers
Keep Off My Property! Federal and State Legislatures' Attempt to Behead the Kelo Hydra (with Gerald M. Finkel and Ryan T. LeBlanc) (2006)
Interfacing Between Former UCC Article 9 and Revised UCC Article 9 (with Robert E. Culver) (2005)
Presentations
Proposal for a New South Carolina Rule of Professional Responsibility, South Carolina Bar House of Delegates (2009)
Proposal for a New South Carolina Rule of Professional Responsibility, South Carolina Bar House of Delegates (2008)
Fundamentals of Legal Writing, Charleston Association of Legal Assistants (2006)
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Invitational Chair, Second Annual College of Charleston Mock Trial Invitational Tournament (2005)
An invitational mock trial tournament for college students from across the country.