South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A $3.8 million jury verdict — the third largest award on January’s Verdicts & Settlements survey — has been converted into a structured settlement, Lawyers Weekly has learned. Charleston lawyer Joseph P. Griffith Jr. told Lawyers Weekly that the parties ...

The Columbia firm of Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims and Mount Pleasant solo practitioner E. Vernon F. Glenn have grabbed top honors in Lawyers Weekly’s second “Best Law Firm Web Site” competition. One judge praised Ellis Lawhorne, which competed in the ...

An insurance company whose adjuster misstated the law on dog bite liability was correctly hit with a $1.1 million bite out of its bottom line, the state Supreme Court has ruled. In a Nov. 27 opinion, the justices affirmed $146,600 ...

Lawyers From Other Countries Get Limited Practice Privileges

A bad faith motive is not a prerequisite to showing voluntary underemployment when imputing income to a parent in a child support case, the Supreme Court has ruled. The case is Arnal v. Arnal (South Carolina Lawyers Weekly No. 010-141-06, ...

Funds Do Not Have To Pass Through Trust Account

Even though a client was contractually obligated to pay his lawyer under an hourly rate, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by approving a lower contingency fee, the Court of Appeals has ruled. The unpublished ruling in Tillman ...

A woman who found herself saddled with a mortgage payment nearly equal to her monthly income has lost in her bid to hold the lending bank liable for an unfair trade practice. The weakness in the woman’s legal case: the ...

Young lawyers to be paired with seasoned veterans

Something may not have smelled right about the six air fresheners a motorist had hanging from his rear-view mirror. But that factor — and the motorist’s nervousness during an I-85 traffic stop — did not rise to the level of ...