South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Although the respondent-lawyer did not hide is moonlighting from his law firm or cause any conflicts of interest, the lawyer did use firm letterhead in his moonlighting correspondence and, in one instance, failed to deposit unearned attorney’s fees into a ...

The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office has joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general to work with a dozen phone companies to battle illegal robocalls. Attorney General Alan Wilson signed onto a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission to encourage ...

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The pilot program for electronic filing of documents in common pleas court has been expanded to include Charleston County, the only one of the state’s 46 counties not already participating in the program. The South Carolina Supreme Court issued an ...

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A son, who has the same name as his father (except for the “Jr.” designation), and who is in the same business – personal injury law – may not use marks that are confusingly similar to those that the father ...

Although the defendant challenged the search warrant that led to his plea to possession of child pornography, there was probable cause for the warrant because the facts in the affidavit supported a reasonable inference that someone using his IP address ...

Where the pleadings in the underlying suit alleged offensive publications were made during the policy period that differed in substance from those published before commencement of coverage, the “prior publication” exclusion did not obviate insurer’s duty to defend. Background In ...

The defendants, who persuaded their elderly victims to transfer money to the defendants based on postured romantic relationships, failed to persuade the court that the district court made errors during their trial that would have changed the outcome. Background The ...

While members of the Double Nine Goon Syndikate failed in their challenge to their convictions because the district court did not err in empaneling an anonymous jury, in its evidentiary rulings or in its jury instructions, four of the defendants ...

The defendant’s 220-month sentence was based on four prior convictions that rendered him an “armed career criminal.” Now, however, two of those prior convictions no longer qualify as violent felonies, thus requiring resentencing. Background Randall Cornette pleaded guilty to being ...

Although the defendant claimed his federal gun charge could not be based on his Virginia conviction for domestic violence because he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a jury trial in Virginia as required under federal statute, ...