South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

By Karl Heberger BridgeTower Media Newswires Google Analytics is a free service that allows marketers and website owners to track users’ behavior on their websites. It can tell the story that is so critical to understanding how to improve the ...

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By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires Navel-gazing, dreaming, the soft stuff and a waste of time. These and more have been used to describe retreats where the discussion concerns a firm’s mission, values, principles or norms. Discussing values, principles ...

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By Stephen M. Honig “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” — Stephen R. Covey “Diversity” in business means variance in gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability and experience. Few goals are more discussed, and yet so unachieved, as diversity on ...

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K&L Gates has announced that Caitlin Nevin has joined its Charleston office as an associate in its real estate practice group and Ryan Goer has joined as an associate in the its banking and asset finance practice group, also in ...

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SIMPSONVILLE (AP) — The South Carolina city of Simpsonville and its police department are accused of allowing the destruction of DNA evidence in a decades old rape and slaying case. The Greenville News reports the lawsuit by Clovetta Johnson says ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Attorneys for a South Carolina father accused of killing his five children are carefully going over his full confession in court as they seek to prove their insanity case. Timothy Jones Jr.’s lawyers asked Lexington County Sheriff’s ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Teachers and almost all state workers are getting a raise in South Carolina’s $9 billion budget approved by both the House and Senate on May 21. The budget sets aside $160 million for raises for teachers, who ...

Too many lawyers talk too much. Judges and jurors are, metaphorically speaking, drowning in words. Some of these words are helpful, but many are completely unnecessary. Those unnecessary words make your case longer to try and harder to win. Every ...

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  You’ve earned the degree, passed the bar, and landed a gig. But moving up in the lawyer world takes more — namely, some understanding of basic marketing principles. Although a crucial piece of the puzzle for long-term business success, ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A former police chief of Columbia has been arrested for a third time in less than a year. The Florence County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted May 18 to a stolen vehicle near a Timmonsville motel and connected ...