South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A land dispute between a Charleston County man and his late domestic partner’s daughter presented a fact pattern fit for a property law exam question—real “who owns Blackacre?” type stuff. And it presented a novel question for South Carolina’s Court ...

Tagged with: right of survivorship

A man who was committed to the South Carolina Department of Mental Health as a sexually violent predator didn’t have a due process right to a competency hearing before he was committed, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ...

A company that placed the winning bid for a piece of property at a tax sale in York County won’t be able to use the quiet title doctrine or claim unjust enrichment in order to void its own title to ...

Attorney: Suzanna Rachel MacLean Location: Sumter Bar membership: Member since 2012 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for three years on July 7, retroactive to the date of her interim suspension Background: Following a traffic stop in July ...

Attorney: Daniel Edward Johnson Location: Blythewood Bar membership: Member since 1998 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on July 7 Background: On Sept. 18, 2018, Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury on 26 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, and ...

Attorney: William E. Hopkins Jr. Location: Pawleys Island Bar membership: Member since 1993 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on July 7 Background: Hopkins admitted that he transferred money from his trust account to cover payroll and operating expenses for his law firm ...

  A childhood trauma therapist who testified both as an expert in characteristics of child trauma and child sexual abuse dynamics and also as the treating therapist of a young girl who testified that she had been sexually abused didn’t ...

Tagged with: child sexual abuse Expert Testimony

  An Isle of Palms attorney has consented to a six-month suspension from the practice of law as a consequence of a series of offensive comments posted on Facebook.  Starting in June 2020, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel received complaints ...

Tagged with: Facebook

Attorney: Drelton A. Carson Jr. Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2007 Disciplinary action: Suspended until further order on June 18 Background: The Office of Disciplinary Counsel asked the Supreme Court to place Carson on interim suspension pursuant to Rule ...

Attorney: David Paul Traywick Location: Isle of Palms Bar membership: Member since 2009 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for six months on June 18, retroactive to the date of his interim suspension. Background: Beginning in June 2020, ...