South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — In the past few weeks, South Carolina has set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases have approached peak levels of last winter. Classes, schools and entire districts have gone virtual, leaving parents frustrated and teachers ...

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  The South Carolina Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a man who was convicted of killing a child when he set a mobile home on fire, finding that his recorded statements to police were coerced by ...

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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford I am a big believer in the power of small daily tweaks and adjustments to improve my practice. Small hinges can open big doors. The ...

SPARTANBURG (AP) — A South Carolina county jail will implement new COVID-19 protections for inmates to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal groups. Operators of the Spartanburg County Detention Center agreed in ...

A law firm that had been dismissed by its client in a workers’ compensation dispute will not be able to sue the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission for failing to notify it of a hearing at which the commission approved ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago plans to turn himself in to face charges in a plot to arrange his own death that ended with ...

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South Carolina officials who have been sued over a law banning school districts from issuing face mask mandates say that they should be removed from pending litigation. That’s the argument made in recent court filings from Gov. Henry McMaster, Attorney ...

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A divided federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international email and phone communications. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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Technology competence: Nowadays it’s a must for lawyers. Five years ago, you may have been able to convince yourself that there was no need to be technologically competent, but no more. The writing has been on the wall ever since ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police have officially opened an investigation into missing money that a law firm said was taken by an attorney from a prominent South Carolina legal family whose wife and son were killed at their home ...

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