adw v berg
26 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- June 16, 2026 · Dispatch
Court appoints former Judge Kristi Harrington as third-party neutral to sort the 11,000+ disputed files in Mace's Google Drive
On June 16, 2026, Judge Donald B. Hocker appointed Kristi Harrington, a Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge, to serve as a 'third-party neutral' in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2025-CP-10-2671), one of the cluster of cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and her former fiance, Patrick Bryant. Harrington's task is to review the more than 11,000 electronic files in what the court calls 'Mace's Google Drive,' files that both Mace and Bryant claim to own, and decide which, if any, must be turned over in discovery. The court split her fees between the two camps, warned the volume could make the process 'very cost-prohibitive,' and entered the order over Mace's objection. The order makes no finding on privilege, admissibility, ownership, or wrongdoing; the underlying allegations remain contested and unproven.
- June 8, 2026 · Dispatch
Gretchen Carlson, who helped write the Speak Out Act, files a sworn declaration backing Alexis Berg
On June 8, 2026, Alexis Berg's counsel filed a reply brief in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671) arguing that the federal Speak Out Act makes the non-disparagement clause ADW is suing on judicially unenforceable, because the dispute before the court involves sexual-assault allegations. Attached was a sworn declaration from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose 2016 case helped inspire the Act, who states she has met with Berg and that 'this is exactly the situation we fought to address,' and offers to testify. ADW argues the Act does not apply. The motion is undecided; the underlying allegations are contested and denied.
- March 5, 2026 · Dispatch
'To Simply Make Up a Legal Standard Is Inexcusable': Opposing Counsel Asks Court to Sanction Mace's Pro Se TRO Filing
In a March 5, 2026 response filed in ADW v. Berg, Assignment Desk Works' counsel Rene Dukes told a Charleston court that Rep. Nancy Mace's pro se emergency TRO motion cited a four-part legal standard that does not exist under South Carolina law, misrepresented a second case as supporting a doctrine it does not mention, and contradicted itself on whether an attorney-client relationship ever existed. Dukes asked the court to deny the motion and sanction Mace under Rule 11, the rule that requires any litigant, represented or not, to certify that a filing has good-faith legal and factual support.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
For All the Accusations, 'Not One Woman Other Than Defendant Has Brought an Action Against Bryant, Including Mace'
In a two-page response filed March 4, 2026, ADW's counsel Rene Stuhr Dukes told a Charleston court that despite a coordinated effort by Ali Berg and Nancy Mace to level sexual-crime accusations against Patrick Bryant, no woman — including Mace herself — has filed a legal action against him. The filing is opposing counsel's argument, not a judicial finding; Bryant's denials and an open SLED investigation remain part of the record.
- February 10, 2026 · Dispatch
Bryant's Own Lawyer Alleges Mace 'Stole' His Phone and Hired a PI to Extract Its Data
In a public court filing, Patrick Bryant's attorney asserted in an email exhibit that Nancy Mace took Bryant's Samsung Galaxy S22 from his home and hired a private investigator to copy files off it. The allegations are unproven and contested; Berg's motion argues that Bryant's own pleadings directly contradict the account.
- February 2, 2026 · Dispatch
Opposing Counsel Tells Court Mace's Motion Is 'Intended to Delay This Litigation, Harass Plaintiff, Its Members, and Agents'
In a February 2026 court filing, ADW's counsel Rene Dukes argued that Rep. Nancy Mace had no legal standing to intervene in the ADW v. Berg breach-of-contract case and that her motion was frivolous, filed solely to harass and delay. Dukes also noted that Mace's filing invoked her own congressional floor speech, in which she had named private citizens who are members of the plaintiff.
- January 27, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace Calls ADW's Breach-of-Contract Suit a 'Fishing Expedition,' Moves to Dismiss It, Despite Not Being a Party
On January 27, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, not a party to ADW v. Berg, a breach-of-contract case between her company and a former employee, filed an Emergency Motion to Intervene, seeking to dismiss the suit, impose sanctions on both sides' attorneys, and block all discovery. Mace signed the motion herself, as a pro se litigant, and certified that she had skipped the required meet-and-confer with opposing counsel because, in her judgment, it 'would not be productive.' ADW v. Berg is a civil case in Charleston County; no findings of fact have been made.
- January 27, 2026 · Dispatch
'This Court Now Stands as the Only Barrier': Mace Files Sworn Emergency Motion to Gag Opposing Lawyers
On January 27, 2026, Nancy Mace filed a sworn, verified Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in the ADW v. Berg civil case, asking a Charleston County judge to bar opposing counsel, Patrick Bryant, and Berg's attorneys from accessing or using materials she called privileged. The motion — signed under oath by Mace personally — also places her gubernatorial candidacy on the official court record.
- January 26, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace voluntarily shared her Google Drive as 'helpful' evidence, then sent 'threatening' letters demanding it back
In a January 2026 emergency motion, Ali Berg's attorney Marybeth Mullaney told a Charleston court that Congresswoman Nancy Mace had voluntarily handed over her Google Drive in June 2025, saying she believed it would be 'helpful' to Berg's defense, and then reversed course, sending what the motion calls 'threatening emails and letters' demanding Berg's counsel stop using the materials, return or destroy them, and 'claw back' items already produced in discovery. The motion asks the court to step in and decide whether Berg may keep using what Mace herself provided.
- January 21, 2026 · Dispatch
In a letter to the judge overseeing her gag order, Mace calls the court a 'Kangaroo Court' and moves the contempt matter to federal court: 'I will not be SILENCED.'
On January 21, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote directly to Judge Donald B. Hocker, the Charleston County circuit judge presiding over Berg v. Bryant, the case in which she is a third-party defendant under a gag order, calling the court a 'Kangaroo Court,' declaring the gag order unconstitutional, and announcing she was removing the contempt proceeding against her to federal court. Mace wrote the letter pro se, after she says she had discharged her counsel; it was stamped FILED on the state docket January 22, 2026. The full five-page filing is reproduced below. The allegations underlying the litigation are disputed and contested; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.
- December 22, 2025 · Dispatch
Bryant's counsel to Berg's attorney: 'Describing in detail what I contend is confidential before the Order is in place would defeat the very purpose of having a confidentiality order'
On December 22, 2025, Patrick Bryant's attorneys at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani filed a seven-page opposition to Berg's motion for a blanket confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant, Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124. The brief argues that the photographs and recordings Berg now seeks to seal were already made public by Rep. Nancy Mace, with Berg's consent, during Mace's February and May 2025 congressional speeches. Bryant's counsel agrees that Berg's medical and therapy records should be confidential, but opposes a blanket designation. Attached as Exhibit A is a 23-page compilation of counsel emails documenting a six-week dispute over what, if anything, required protection. All allegations in the underlying litigation are disputed and contested; Bryant denies the claims against him; Berg, Mace, and all named parties deny Bryant's allegations; no matter has been adjudicated.
- December 19, 2025 · Dispatch
In her own sworn Answer, Mace admits she 'placed an air tag on Bryant's car for one day in August 2023'
In her December 19, 2025 Answer to Patrick Bryant's Third-Party Complaint, Rep. Nancy Mace admits under oath that she placed a tracking device on Bryant's car and attempted to access his laptop, while denying Bryant's allegation that she intended to weaponize what she found. The filing is Mace's own account, in her own words, on the public court record.
- December 17, 2025 · Dispatch
'There are at least two people in Mace's car': Bryant's counsel refuses to delete the recording, and announces an amended complaint
The recording of Nancy Mace's first phone call with Ali Berg, produced by Berg's counsel in the ADW v. Berg civil case, quickly became a courtroom fight. When Berg's counsel designated it confidential, Bryant's counsel refused to delete it, argued witnesses in the car undermined any privacy claim, and announced he would amend the complaint against Mace based on its contents.
Incidents
Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther
In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.
February 10, 2025 · Incident
Court filings
Berg v. Bryant (and Bryant's Third-Party Complaint against Mace)
Civil suit filed May 29, 2025 by Alexis Berg against Patrick Bryant and others; Bryant impleaded Rep. Nancy Mace as Third-Party Defendant. The public docket includes a November 17, 2025 order ending pseudonym use, a gag order, and a temporary restraining order.
May 29, 2025 · Case
Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg
Civil suit filed by Assignment Desk Works, LLC, a company tied to Patrick Bryant, against his former employee Alexis Berg to enforce a non-disparagement clause from a 2019 wage settlement. Rep. Nancy Mace is not a party, but she inserted herself as a 'Proposed Intervenor' to recover materials, including a recorded 2024 phone call, that she had voluntarily given Berg's lawyer, then tried to claw back. The court has repeatedly declined the relief she sought: already-produced materials stay in the record, Berg may keep using them, and the disputed files go to a neutral, all entered over Mace's objection.
May 7, 2025 · Case
Wiki & people
Kristi Harrington
Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge (Ninth Judicial Circuit, 2008-2018), now a Supreme Court certified mediator and arbitrator, appointed by Judge Donald B. Hocker on June 16, 2026 to serve as the third-party neutral over the 11,000+ disputed electronic files in ADW v. Berg.
June 16, 2026 · Wiki
Judge Donald B. Hocker
South Carolina Circuit Court judge specially assigned by order of the Supreme Court of South Carolina to preside over the entire cluster of Charleston County cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and Patrick Bryant, including Berg v. Bryant (Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124).
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Marybeth Mullaney
South Carolina plaintiff-side employment and civil rights attorney, founder of Mullaney Law, who serves as counsel of record for plaintiff Alexis Berg in Berg v. Bryant and ADW v. Berg.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Matthew P. Gallo
South Carolina trial attorney and partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP who serves as co-counsel for Patrick Bryant alongside Nosizi Ralephata in Berg v. Bryant and ADW v. Berg.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Nosizi Ralephata
South Carolina trial attorney and partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP who serves as lead civil defense counsel for Patrick Bryant in Berg v. Bryant.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Rene Stuhr Dukes
South Carolina attorney and shareholder at Saxton & Stump, LLC, who appears as counsel of record for Assignment Desk Works, LLC (ADW) in ADW v. Berg and for GLT2, LLC in Berg v. Bryant.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Litigation Overview & Court-Filing Index
A neutral, primary-source index of the South Carolina suits Nancy Mace has filed as plaintiff, a defamation case and a property case, with the public docket of each and links to the dispatches that quote the filings.
June 9, 2026 · Wiki
William J. Hunter
William J. 'Bill' Hunter of Oliver Maner LLP (Savannah, GA) was admitted pro hac vice to represent Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, in April 2026, appearing alongside her local counsel F. Cordes Ford IV.
April 17, 2026 · Wiki
Sam Staley
Sam Staley is a Charleston-area technology executive and a non-party witness whom Assignment Desk Works, LLC, the company of Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé Patrick Bryant, subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes Staley as having connected Alexis Berg with Mace. The communications themselves were produced in discovery under a confidentiality designation and are not part of the public record; this entry summarizes only what the public court filing alleges.
March 19, 2026 · Wiki
F. Cordes Ford IV
F. Cordes Ford IV of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Charleston) appeared as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, beginning March 2026, after Mace had spent the prior weeks representing herself pro se in the related litigation.
March 9, 2026 · Wiki