South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

South Carolina Bar leaders christen new conference center

Handing workers’ comp claimants a groundbreaking legal victory, the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that a totally and permanently disabled woman needed no other party’s consent to have her lump-sum disability award prorated over the span of her expected lifetime. In ...

A woman who was injured when her car collided with cows on a Marion County highway could not sue their owner for strict liability under a state law because the cows were not trespassing, the Court of Appeals ruled. The ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced an educational campaign calling on employers to prevent work-related distracted driving. Federal officials said the program would focus on prohibiting texting while driving. “Year after year, the leading ...

The generation of jurors known as the “net generation” or “digital natives” — those who were born in the digital age and know nothing of life before the Internet — are changing the way trial lawyers try cases and the ...

Palmetto State lawyers would be required to report how much pro bono work they do each year under a proposal to amend Rule 6.1 of the S.C. Rules of Professional Conduct. If the proposal wins approval, South Carolina would become ...

Earlier this month the State Supreme Court expanded its definition of “good funds.” The court first addressed this issue five years ago, when Rule 1.15(f) was amended to include a definition of “good funds.” Good funds are those funds which ...

Carrington Wingard of Florence is the current chair of the S.C. Bar’s Pro Bono Committee. A sole practitioner, Wingard received her undergraduate degree in government from the College of William and Mary and her J.D. from the University of South ...

Ever heard of LPS? Many attorneys haven’t. But LPS Lender Processing Services, Inc. and similar business entities exercise more day-to-day control over the conduct of bankruptcy, default and foreclosure cases in South Carolina and beyond than actual “clients.” At least ...

There are circumstances when a closing attorney ethically may disclose that a waiver of an appraisal right in mortgage documents might be unenforceable, but whether the attorney has an obligation to do so is outside the realm of professional conduct. ...