South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan was disbarred Jan. 16.

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Nexsen Pruet has announced the hiring of three new attorneys in South Carolina: Hamilton Barber, an associate with its health care group in Charleston; Maressa Cuenca, an associate with its employment and labor law group in Columbia; and Shannon Vogan, ...

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  The spindly strip of land running through the Francis Marion National Forest that’s at the heart of a wrangle between environmentalists and one coastal South Carolina town is skinny enough that one could jump right over it in a ...

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  Tired: Pontificating about how the legal profession will possibly cope with the scourge of Millennial lawyers. Inspired: Pontificating about how the legal profession will possibly cope with the scourge of “Generation Z” lawyers. Yes, the days of people complaining ...

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That feeling I’ve been getting in my gut every time I go to McDonald’s wasn’t (just) indigestion—fast food really has been getting more expensive lately. Bloomberg recently reported that burger prices have been beefing up at a faster rate than ...

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Attorney: Michael Demorris Brown Location: Spartanburg Bar membership: Member since 2002 Disciplinary action: Publicly reprimanded on Dec. 5 Background: The complaint against Brown stemmed from his late responses to initial inquiries in ten disciplinary investigations. Brown said that his late ...

Attorney: Jarrett Skipper Calder Location: Conway Bar membership: Member since 2012 Disciplinary action: Resigned in lieu of discipline Nov. 29 Background: In light of Calder’s “serious misconduct which demonstrates an unfitness to practice law,” the South Carolina Supreme Court granted ...

Hunter Adams has joined Baker, Ravenel & Bender in Columbia as an associate, where he practices in the areas of automobile liability, civil litigation, premises liability, and insurance coverage. Maheen Akhter has joined Wyche as an associate in the firm’s ...

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Attorney: Brian DeQuincey Newman Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2008 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for six months on Nov. 14. The suspension is retroactive to Jan. 8, 2016, the date of Newman’s interim suspension. Background: ...

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Attorney: William Levern Pyatt Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 1975 Disciplinary action: Publicly reprimanded on Nov. 14 Background: In November 2017, Pyatt’s bank reported that Pyatt had a check presented against insufficient funds on his real estate trust account. ...

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