South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorney: Edward Joseph Schafer Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2004 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on Jan. 8. Background: The Supreme Court suspended Schafer’s license to practice law until further order. No further ...

No corner of the American economy has been untouched by the current historic swoon in interest rates. Stock markets and home prices have been buoyed; businesses, homebuyers, and governments have been able to access historically cheap credit. The effects of ...

Attorney: Dalhi N. Myers Location: Gadsden Bar membership: Member since 2002 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on Dec. 22. Background: The Supreme Court suspended Myers’ license to practice law until further order and appointed ...

  When prosecuting cases involving the sexual abuse of minors, the victim, who is often also a key witness, is sometimes so young that prosecutors can face a challenge in making sure the jury finds the child’s testimony to be ...

Tagged with: Witnesses

  A carmaker won’t be able to use theories of comparative fault to reduce the amount of damages awarded to a South Carolina man after a jury determined that his actions enhanced the severity of the injuries he suffered when ...

Tagged with: Comparative Fault

  There’s been a lot of talk this year of polls and polling errors, but a polling error of a very different sort—a show-of-hands poll taken of jurors just after they handed down a conviction—meant that the conviction had to ...

Tagged with: jury

Attorney: Jason F. Taylor Location: Charleston Bar membership: Member since 2012 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on Nov. 3 Background: The Supreme Court suspended Taylor’s license to practice law until further order. No further ...

  A pedestrian who was struck by a pickup truck while crossing a highway will have a chance to argue her case before a jury after the South Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that a jury could find the ...

Tagged with: crosswalk Negligence

A police officer who was driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit isn’t entitled to immunity from a lawsuit stemming from the resulting car crash because he wasn’t responding to any genuine emergency, a divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Tagged with: Qualified Immunity

In Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean saga, the titular pirates make off with a fortune in gold coins, only to learn that the treasure is cursed. For the treasure hunters who found the S.S. Central America, the “Ship of Gold” ...

Tagged with: pirate gold