A Midlands lawyer and former Lexington County Council member has been temporarily suspended from the practice of law. Billy Oswald’s long political career has included serving as South Carolina director for Gary Hart’s 1984 presidential campaign and unsuccessful runs in the Republican primaries for state House seats in 2016, 2018 and 2024. But more recently he was in the news after he settled a lawsuit from his former office manager, which accused him of fostering a toxic culture of sexism at his businesses. The South Carolina Supreme Court granted an order for the interim suspension Friday. The Office of Disciplinary Counsel, the state body that regulates attorneys, asked the court to temporarily suspend Oswald’s law license due to unspecified “misconduct.” The order, signed by Chief Justice John Kittredge, did not state why Oswald’s license was being suspended and made no reference to the lawsuit. The Supreme Court’s Friday order cited a state law that allows the court to temporarily suspend a lawyer’s license “upon receipt of sufficient evidence demonstrating that a lawyer poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public or to the administration of justice.”
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