Sean M. Foerster
Creditors' Rights and Litigation Attorney
Sean is a South Carolina litigator with a particular focus on creditors’ rights, eminent domain, and real estate disputes. He represents banks, lenders, servicers, and title companies in matters involving the recovery of commercial and consumer debt and loan collateral, and he works with condemning authorities and landowners in condemnation proceedings, both direct and inverse.
Sean’s litigation experience extends to contested foreclosures, tax sale challenges and surplus claims, title insurance claims, commercial lease disputes, mortgage lender/creditor liability, debt collection, construction defects, and criminal forfeiture of real property. He handles matters through the appellate level.
Honors and Distinctions
- “The Best Lawyers in America” (2020-present) for Litigation – Real Estate
- Columbia Business Monthly’s Legal Elite of the Midlands, 2012 to present
- Leadership South Carolina, Class of 2015-16
- Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce Leadership Columbia Program, Class of 2012
- South Carolina Economic Development Institute, Class of 2015
Please see the following websites for an explanation of the membership standards for the following recognitions: www.bestlawyers.com; businessnc.com/special-sections/legal-elite/; and www.superlawyers.com/north-carolina.
- J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, 2008
- B.A., cum laude, University of South Carolina Honors College, 2004
- Richland County CASA Foundation, Board of Directors, 2015 – 2020, 2025 to present; Governance and Compliance Committee, 2015 – 2020 (Chair), 2025 to present
- Richland County Bar Association, Member
- South Carolina, 2008
- United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2009
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2009
- United States Supreme Court, 2015
My motto: “The greatest enemy of progress is not error, but inertia. ” – Henry Thomas Buckle
Where I’d most like to live and why: Rent-free in opposing counsel’s head. The reason why is self-evident.
