South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Don Cely makes movies for attorneys, but they’re not all that easy to watch. “I usually tell people, when they ask what I do, ‘My job is to either make lawyers cry or throw up’,” he says. Cely produces video settlement documentaries, also known as video settlement brochures, which over the years have morphed from novelties reserved for high-dollar, high-stakes cases into vital pieces of the pre-trial litigation process.

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Anyone who has ever tripped while crossing an unobstructed, flat stretch of carpet then looked back accusatorily at the spot where the fall occurred can understand the instincts of Carolyn M. Nicholson, a Department of Social Services employee injured after ...

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The estate of a woman who bled to death in the night at an assisted living facility earlier this summer reached a settlement worth $850,000 on claims of negligence and wrongful death.

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A jury award believed to be the largest ever against a South Carolina landfill will shrink following the state Supreme Court’s recent rulings that limit temporary trespass or nuisance awards, and bar odors from being considered a cause of action in trespass claims.

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The good news for this year’s crop of new law students is that a clear picture of the legal profession’s future may be coming into focus. That could also be the bad news.

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While much of the English-speaking world was getting comfortable with – or being made uncomfortable by – its new understanding of the word “twerking” last month thanks to Miley Cyrus, the federal judiciary was welcoming another modern addition to its ...

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As terrible as it is to have an airborne Maserati crash through your house and kill your husband, there’s a limit to how many times you can collect insurance payouts on it. That is the opinion of the South Carolina ...

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The tale that emerges from the recently decided U.S. Bankruptcy case In re Ronald Jefferson Davis Jr. is a sad and cautionary one that serves to remind us of two universal truths: 1. Review the documents, no matter how implicitly ...

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A sense of betrayal and wounded Palmetto State pride has fueled the anger expressed by many Charleston School of Law alumni in the wake of the school’s announcement of a business arrangement with the law school network Infilaw. The management services agreement is widely regarded as a precursor to a sale of the school though neither the school nor Infilaw has confirmed plans regarding the long-term ownership of CSOL. But Peter Goplerud, the president of Infilaw Management Services, says students and alumni should know that the ethos of the three law schools in the Infilaw networks is compatible with the culture of CSOL.

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Telling the sheriff’s deputy that you’re going to Grandma’s house at 1 a.m. might mean you’re a lazy liar. Or it could be that your granny burns the midnight oil. But it doesn’t necessarily constitute reasonable suspicion. That’s what the ...

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