South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorney: Gregory Alan Newell Location: Greenville Bar membership: First admitted in 1981 Disciplinary action: Readmitted to the practice of law on Feb. 20 Background: In April 2002, the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended Newell from the practice of law for ...

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Attorney: Christi Anne Misocky Location: Monroe, North Carolina (formerly of Fort Mill) Bar membership: Member since 2009 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law until further notice on March 1. Background: On Feb. 15 Misocky was arrested and charged ...

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Attorney: Jonathan L.B. Davis Location: Blythewood Bar membership: Member since 2003 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for one year on Feb. 27, retroactive to the date of his interim suspension. Background: A married couple retained Davis to ...

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Attorney: Fulton Casey Dale Cornwell Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 2005 Disciplinary action: Disbarred on Feb. 27 Background: Cornwell’s order of disbarment notes 12 separate matters, mostly related to his work representing clients in post-conviction relief matters. In November ...

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John F. Martin of Charleston resigned in lieu of discipline on Feb. 1. His resignation shall be permanent, and he will never be eligible to apply nor be considered for admission or reinstatement to the practice of law or for any limited practice of law in South Carolina.

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John William Harte Jr. was reinstated to the practice of law on Feb. 1. Harte was disbarred in October 2011 after he knowingly conspired with a client to take actions that were intended to hide, conceal, and protect the proceeds and assets that resulted from the client’s criminal activities.

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Atiya Shawtel Johnson, a municipal court judge in Hardeeville and Ridgeland and a ministerial recorder/clerk of court in Hardeeville, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of making a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive branch of the government of the United States.

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Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan was disbarred Jan. 16.

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Attorney: Michael Demorris Brown Location: Spartanburg Bar membership: Member since 2002 Disciplinary action: Publicly reprimanded on Dec. 5 Background: The complaint against Brown stemmed from his late responses to initial inquiries in ten disciplinary investigations. Brown said that his late ...

Attorney: Jarrett Skipper Calder Location: Conway Bar membership: Member since 2012 Disciplinary action: Resigned in lieu of discipline Nov. 29 Background: In light of Calder’s “serious misconduct which demonstrates an unfitness to practice law,” the South Carolina Supreme Court granted ...