South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

There was a game show in the late eighties called Bumper Stumpers where contestants had to decipher vanity license plates. Recently, it seems that that the state agencies given the duty to approve or deny certain vanity plates are the ...

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Morton & Gettys announced that John Mark Shiflet has joined the firm as an associate. Shiflet will base his practice out of the firm’s York office and will focus primarily on the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. Alice ...

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Most attorneys recall law school as a blur of long hours spent reading cases and what seemed like even longer classes spent waiting for professors to ask questions about the reading, all accompanied by a vague sense of dread and ...

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McNair Family Law recently celebrated its opening in Summerville. The firm was founded by Carolyn McNair, who formerly practiced with the Parise Law Firm in Columbia. Thurmond Kirchner Timbes & Yelverton announced that the firm has added Thomas J. Rode as an associate. Rode ...

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District attorneys and solicitors frequently ask for the arresting officer’s advice when making a plea offer to a defendant. In Sidebar’s experience, officers tend to feel more charitable toward certain defendants than others. We’ll leave it to you to determine ...

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As if they were not divided enough, the U.S. Supreme Court justices are split six ways over the pronunciation of the word “certiorari,” according to an article in The National Law Journal. And, according to a University of South Carolina law ...

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Turner Padget Graham & Laney announced that Marshall Tinsley has joined the firm’s business transactions practice group in its Columbia office. Johnny Warren and Cameron Stoll joined the Charleston office of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. Warren and Stoll will represent clients in general corporate ...

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South Carolina’s new DUI law has the support of the majority of South Carolina’s DUI defense bar and cleared the General Assembly without a single vote in opposition, but some dissenters do not believe that the law will work to ...

Infilaw’s quest to purchase Charleston School of Law has hit another snag. According to a statement released by Infilaw Wednesday afternoon, Sen. John E. Courson, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, requested that Infilaw temporarily suspend its bid to buy ...

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South Carolina could beat the federal government to legislation outlawing a new, powdered form of alcohol that users can mix with water to create “instant cocktails.” On May 28, the South Carolina Senate passed an amendment to a bill that ...

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