Kate Schmutz
Attorney at Schmutz & Schmutz in Charleston, SC, named as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace on the November 2023 evidence-preservation letter to Patrick Bryant.

Kate Schmutz is an attorney at Schmutz & Schmutz, based in Charleston, South Carolina. She is named in the public record as co-counsel for U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in connection with the earliest documented legal step in the Bryant dispute.
Role in the Mace litigation
Interrogatory responses in the subsequent litigation identify Kate Schmutz as co-counsel for Rep. Mace on the November 13, 2023 evidence-preservation and demand letter sent to Patrick Bryant, naming her alongside Jonathan H. Krell and Steven J. Schmutz. The underlying allegations in that letter are contested and denied by Patrick Bryant. By April 2024, a partition suit arising from the same dispute was filed by different counsel.
Office contact
- Firm: Schmutz & Schmutz
- Office: 24 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401
- Phone: (843) 577-5530
- Website: https://schmutzlaw.com