South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — A former official for the contractor hired to build two South Carolina nuclear reactors that were never completed pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to federal authorities. Carl Churchman entered the plea in federal court, court records show. ...

Tagged with: SCANA Corp. Santee Cooper

COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state’s new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die ...

Tagged with: death row

ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were found shot and killed on their family’s land, and authorities said they have made no arrests in the double homicide case. Deputies in Colleton ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina judge should block the executions of two men scheduled to die later this month so the court can evaluate a new law that effectively forces death row prisoners to choose to die by either ...

Tagged with: Death Penalty

By Christopher F. Earley We’ve all been there. We hire someone we really believe will be a great hire. Soon, though, it becomes clear it is not a good fit. I had to make the really tough decision of letting ...

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BY PAT MURPHY A federal rules committee recently moved forward with an amendment that re-emphasizes and clarifies a judge’s duties as gatekeeper with respect to the expert testimony that may be considered in a case. On April 30, the Judicial ...

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Virginia “Ginny” Bozeman has joined Turner Padget, of counsel in the litigation practice group in the firm’s Columbia office. Bozeman focuses her practice on defending physicians, physician practices, and hospitals in medical malpractice litigation and previously practiced in Tennessee for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited prosecutors’ ability to use an anti-hacking law to charge people with computer crimes. Conservative and liberal justices joined to vote 6-3 to overturn the conviction of a police sergeant who used ...

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WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. ...

Tagged with: F. Lee Bailey

Demand for office space is starting to inch back up across the state with owner and investor interest in purchasing office space exceeding supply in the Upstate, according to a Q1 market report from Cushman & Wakefield and Thalhimer. Unemployment rates in ...