South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  An intercontinental legal dispute that began with a fire at a Boeing plant in North Charleston is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and it could end up significantly changing the way that companies that do business internationally ...

Attorney: Thurmond Brooker Location: Florence Bar membership: Member since 1999 Disciplinary action: Publicly reprimanded on March 31 Background: In five separate matters spanning from 2004 to 2012, Brooker at various times failed to adequately communicate with clients, failed to provide ...

Attorney: Joseph Sidney Mendelsohn Location: Charleston Bar membership: Member since 1964 Disciplinary action: Publicly reprimanded on March 31 Background: Mendelsohn was a Charleston Municipal Court Judge, and in January 2019 his friend received a City of Charleston traffic ticket. Mendelsohn ...

Attorney: Harry B. Gregory Jr. Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 1985 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on March 25 Background: The Supreme Court suspended Gregory’s license to practice law until further notice at ...

Attorney: Bradley A. Norton Location: Walhalla Bar membership: Member since 1991 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year on March 17 Background: Norton represented a number of clients in separate personal injury matters spanning from 1994 ...

It’s now been more than a year since the Lawyers Weekly team has assembled in our old office. Like so many of you, we’ve had to adapt to a world of working remotely, and it hasn’t always been easy. So ...

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The thing that really jumps out at you about South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2020 is how utterly ordinary it is. There are slightly fewer verdicts than is typical, but nothing about the ...

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Attorney: Mark E. Schnee Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2006 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on Feb. 10 Background: Formal charges involving five separate complaints were filed against Schnee in July 2017 alleging various instances of misconduct, including failing to act ...

  An arrested person’s right to remain silent would be worth very little if that silence could be treated as an admission of guilt, so the U.S. Supreme Court has said that prosecutors seeking to impeach a defendant’s testimony at ...

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South Carolina legislators elected a new judge to the state’s Court of Appeals and re-elected two others, along with a slate of newly elected and re-elected circuit court judges, in judicial elections held Feb. 3. The General Assembly voted 94-63 ...