South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

New associations  Stephen Atkinson has joined D’Alberto, Graham & Grimblsey in West Columbia, where he specializes in representing small to mid-sized business owners who are either selling their business to an outside or internally transitioning ownership to the next generation.  ...

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In the Matter of James Kristian Falk, RespondentAppellate Case Nos. 2023-000662 and 2023-000663 ORDER The Office of Disciplinary Counsel asks this Court to place Respondent on interim suspension pursuant to Rule 17(b) of the Rules for Lawyer Disciplinary Enforcement (RLDE) ...

Tagged with: Bar Discipline Roundup

Where the circuit court’s contempt order awarded plaintiff, as personal representative of an estate, $70,000 in fees and costs as compensatory contempt, the award of compensatory contempt was intended to indemnify the estate, not as a punishment. As a sanction ...

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Celebrate the Best in the Legal Profession and Connect with Influential Legal Professionals Date: July 20, 2023 Location: Hilton Charlotte University Place, 8629 JM Kenes Drive, Charlotte, NC 28262 Schedule: Networking & Registration – 11:30 a.m. EST | Lunch & Awards – ...

Defendants were caught up in an investigation of the Smith brothers for drug trafficking, and defendants sought to suppress evidence obtained from wiretaps of the Smiths’ phones. In support of their argument that the wiretap application was based on stale ...

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Although plaintiff’s depression is severe, the administrative law judge carefully considered plaintiff’s entire medical record, including his responsiveness to medication, multiple expert reports finding that he maintains a high degree of mental functioning and the capacity to work, and his ...

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Because S.C. Code Ann. Title 12 does not define “motor vehicle,” the administrative law court properly determined that it must use the rules of statutory construction to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the legislature to determine if the sales ...

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In this construction defect case brought by the purchaser of a project, the general contractor has not stated independent claims against the project’s architect. We affirm partial summary judgment for the architect. The contractor lists the following actual damages: (1) ...

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In this discovery dispute that began in 2012, in finding that the defendant-Appellants “engaged in a deliberate pattern of discovery abuse,” the circuit court described the many times Appellants missed discovery response deadlines; failed to fully comply with motions to ...

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Where, as here, the state concedes that the trial court imposed an illegal sentence, an appellate court may correct that sentence on direct appeal or remand the issue to the trial court even if the defendant did not object to ...

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