South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In the TV show Criminal Minds, a wildly successful police procedural now in its 15th season, a team of criminal profilers solves murders by developing a “profile” of the perpetrator’s psychological characteristics based on clues left at the crime scenes. ...

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There are certain books, movies, and songs that are timelier than ever today. There are scenes in both the novel and the movie Jaws, for instance, where Chief Brody is imploring a skeptical Mayor Vaughan to close down the beaches ...

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By MAURA MAZUROWSKI and DAVID DONOVAN The U.S. government has taken an unprecedented step in response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, passing the first ever paid sick leave law in the nation’s history. Now attorneys have to quickly figure ...

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Attorney: Samuel Robert Drose Location: Marion Bar membership: Member since 2001 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for three years on March 18, retroactive to the date of his interim suspension. Background: Drose represented a client who had ...

  A woman whose on-again, off-again boyfriend died in an accident won’t be able to collect death benefits under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act because she wasn’t reliant on him financially, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a ...

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  If an armed police officer approaches you in a train station and asks to speak with you, in theory you have the right to decline and walk away. But how “voluntary” is that conversation, really—would a typical person indeed ...

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  A construction company whose shoddily-made storefront curb caused a shopper to seriously injure herself will have to pay for the legal bills the store and a developer incurred defending themselves against the shopper’s lawsuit—but not the attorneys’ fees they ...

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K. Douglas Thornton resigned in lieu of discipline on Feb. 14. Thornton’s license to practice law had been suspended since March 30, 2018.

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Jacob Gillens Sr. was placed on interim suspension on Feb. 12. The order does not specify the reasons for the interim suspension, but Gillens was charged with DUI after he was involved in a two-vehicle crash on Jan. 31.

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Charles E. Houston Jr., now of Fayetteville, Georgia, was Reinstated to the practice of law, with certain conditions, on Jan. 22. Houston was suspended from the practice of law for nine months in March 2016. 

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