South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jun 12, 2024

Help new associates launch careers with confidence

By Jay Sullivan Law firms are organic entities. They grow, they evolve, they expand their capabilities, and they incorporate and absorb new people. All firms experience growing pains when someone […]

Apr 23, 2024

VIDEO: 5 Questions with … Joseph F. Rice

Joseph F. Rice, a co-founder of Motley Rice, has negotiated some of the bigger settlements in American history, both in terms of dollar amounts and public attention.

Feb 23, 2024

VIDEO: For older students, legal studies come right on time

They say that time waits for no one, but they also say that it’s never too late to pursue one’s passion. In the study and practice of law, the latter […]

Apr 20, 2020

Introducing South Carolina’s newest lawyers

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the February 2020 South Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the South […]

Apr 7, 2020

3Ls facing clouds as bar exam is up in the air

Even in the best of times, the grind of preparing for the bar exam is often one of the most harrowing ordeals of a young lawyer’s career. These are, of […]

Mar 13, 2019

USC down, CSL unranked in US News list

The University of South Carolina School of Law dropped three spots while Charleston School of Law remained unranked in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. While […]

Oct 17, 2018

Post-recession, more students see law career as a way to give back

For today’s generation of aspiring law students, a career in the law is less about making a buck, and more about making an impact, a new study suggests. According to […]

Jun 13, 2018

A game of craps: Law school, bar admissions a gamble for applicants with records

If Marlowe Rary had known in 2011 what he eventually learned the hard way, he probably never would have applied to law school. Nearly a decade earlier, Rary, a “typical […]

Mar 23, 2018

GRE calculator does the math

With a growing number of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Exam in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test, surely there is an easy way for admissions committees to […]

May 9, 2016

The Latest: SC chief Justice urges law graduates to service

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the law school commencement address Sunday of South Carolina’s top judge to (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The chief justice of South Carolina’s […]

Apr 6, 2016

An unfortunate acronym

The George Mason University School of Law has narrowly avoided making an ASS out of itself. Officials at the Virginia institution were perhaps a bit too hasty in trumpeting plans […]

Nov 27, 2015

Rise of the machines: For its next trick, IBM’s Watson is going to law school

Working as a legal research attorney can feel a bit like playing a never-ending game of “Jeopardy!” in which you are the only contestant. People constantly fire arcane inquiries your […]