South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Grave robbing has been a tempting crime for millennia—the victim is in no shape to defend himself, and would seem to have no further use for worldly possessions. Egyptian pyramids were specifically engineered to guard against it, but modern-day thieves ...

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BY DAVID DONOVAN and RENEE SEXTON There are some obvious risks to admitting that you know where a dead body is buried, but a Dorchester County man who says that he never gave his informed consent before his attorney divulged ...

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The Federal Reserve took a hatchet to interest rates in 2019, bringing down the cost of borrowing for almost anyone in need of credit. Those cuts are now making their way into legal rate of interest on money judgments in ...

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Dear subscriber, I hope your new year is off to a great start, and your new year’s resolutions are still going strong. South Carolina Lawyers Weekly has also made some exciting changes for 2020 that I want to tell you ...

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  It would not be much of a stretch, the family’s attorney said, to call it a Christmas miracle. Just before the holiday, a family whose home had been foreclosed upon over a mere $250 in unpaid homeowners’ association dues ...

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N. Douglas Brannon was publicly reprimanded on Dec. 18.

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  People can claim the protection of South Carolina’s “stand your ground” law if they act in self-defense while jaywalking, jogging in a park after hours, or—in the case of one Greenville County man who was sentenced to 12 years ...

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George Hunter McMaster of Columbia resigned in lieu of discipline on Nov. 27.

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Elizabeth Anne Perkins was reinstated to the practice of law on Nov. 27. She had been suspended from the practice of law for a period of six months on March 28.

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An injunction that prevents Lowcountry attorney George Sink Jr. from using his birth name to advertise his new law firm will remain in place after a federal judge reiterated that his father, George Sink Sr., was likely to succeed in ...

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