South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorney: William F. Gorski Location: Lexington Bar membership: Member since 1995 Disciplinary action: Reinstated to the practice of law on Sept. 21 Background: Gorski was suspended from the practice of law for 12 months on July 11, 2018. Gorski had ...

  Inmates whose detentions were prolonged by attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Corrections’ erroneous analysis of state sentencing law won’t be able to bring a civil rights lawsuit against those attorneys because the attorneys were shielded by the ...

Tagged with: SC Department of Corrections

Attorney: John Michael Bosnak Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2000 Disciplinary action: Reinstated to the practice of law on Aug. 24 Background: Bosnak was suspended from the practice of law for one year on April 19, 2017, retroactive to ...

Attorney: Charles L. Anderson Location: Anderson Bar membership: Member since 1995 Disciplinary action: Reinstated to the practice of law on Aug. 24 Background: Anderson was suspended from the practice of law for two years on Sept. 28, 2016, retroactive to ...

An attorney who was disqualified from representing his client at a trial for which he would be a necessary witness could nevertheless still represent the client for purposes other than trial advocacy, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. ...

Tagged with: Court of Appeals

  A man who was convicted of a sexually-related offense as a teenager in the 1990s will still need to register as a sex offender even though his conviction was expunged before South Carolina lawmakers amended state law to prevent ...

Tagged with: Sex Offender

  Charges against a Virginia man who was subjected to a warrantless search and seizure will be dropped after a full panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search violated in the Fourth Amendment in ...

Tagged with: Fourth Amendment

Attorney: Jacob Leon Parrott Location: Myrtle Beach Bar membership: Member since 1984 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on Aug. 13 Background: On June 5, 2018, Parrott was arrested and charged with indecent exposure after he was observed exposing his genitals and masturbating. ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and many law firms would agree that 2020 has been a real mother of a year. COVID-19 has sparked an unprecedented surge of innovation within the legal profession. In some cases, the future has ...

Tagged with: Innovation

Attorney: Theo Walker Mitchell Location: Greenville Bar membership: Member since 1970 Disciplinary action: Resigned in lieu of discipline on Aug. 11 Background: Mitchell submitted a motion to resign in lieu of discipline, and the South Carolina Supreme Court granted that ...