South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  There was a poetic bit of symmetry in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, in which the court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bans ...

Tagged with: LGBTQ

Attorney: David A. Collins Location: Charleston Bar membership: Member since 1987 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on June 24 Background: In May 2013 Collins received $72,383.29 from the proceeds of a sale of jointly-owned property, to hold in trust pending resolution of ...

Attorney: Margaret Lanier Brooks Location: Jackson, Wyoming Bar membership: Member since 2019 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on June 24 Background: Brooks applied for admission to the South Carolina Bar based on a Uniform Bar Exam score from Wyoming and was sworn ...

  Your DNA can end up in all kinds of unexpected places. When you shake someone’s hand, traces of your DNA will transfer to their hand. If that hand then grasps the butt of a handgun, your DNA could end ...

Tagged with: DNA

Attorney: David Paul Traywick Location: Mount Pleasant Bar membership: Member since 2009 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until future notice on June 12. Background: The Supreme Court suspended Traywick’s license to practice law until further order and ...

Attorney: Dannitte Mays Dickey Location: Greenville Bar membership: Member since 2010 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year, retroactive to the date of his interim suspension, on June 3. Background: A client retained Dickey to handle ...

Attorney: Robert Nathan Boorda Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 1992 Disciplinary action: Resigned in lieu of discipline on May 22 Background: Boorda submitted a motion to resign in lieu of discipline, and the South Carolina Supreme Court granted that ...

  South Carolina’s three-year statute of limitations doesn’t apply to claims for promissory estoppel, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled, answering a certified question from the federal district court. Johnny Thomerson alleges that the former owners of Lenco Marine, a ...

Tagged with: Equitable Estoppel Statute of Limitations

  The vertiginous swings of the stock market can be harrowing, but they at least provide a constant signal about how much a publicly-traded company is worth, and make their shares triflingly easy to sell. Valuing and selling privately held ...

Tagged with: stocks

  When two major national retailers, J. Crew and Neiman Marcus, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the first week of May, the news reports read like obituaries, with the novel coronavirus being listed as the companies’ cause of death. ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy