South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY PETER VIETH BridgeTower Media Newswires A federal appeals court has denied qualified immunity for a police officer who shot and killed a citizen’s dog when the dog allegedly posed no threat. The Jan. 22 decision by the 4th U.S. ...

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By Shane R. Goodrich On Jan. 12, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule in which it adopted a balancing test to determine the joint employer status of an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the federal ...

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By Charlie Davis and Chalk Broughton The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law by President Trump and became effective Jan. 1, has significantly altered the estate planning landscape for qualified ...

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BY JULIE CAMPANINI BridgeTower Media Newswires It is no secret to defendants that jurors expect products to be safe and that companies that fail to follow their own policies are vulnerable. A trend in litigation is to move safety to ...

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  I recently received a text from a lawyer friend telling me she wants to take hip-hop classes. “But I’m afraid I’ll make a fool of myself,” she said. As with many other attorneys, my friend regularly works 60+ hour ...

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By Jessie Ammons Rumbley If California were its own country, it would be the fifth-largest economy in the world, so when the Golden State throws its weight around, it can rumble the desks of attorneys from coast to coast, regardless ...

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By Erin K. Higgins and Thomas E. Peisch Monday morning for a firm’s managing partner brings a request from one of his partners for a sit-down. This is followed by an announcement from the partner that she is leaving the ...

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BY JOSH VAN KAMPEN and LANA TIGRI If you ask your neighbor whether it’s legal to fire a worker because he’s gay, you’ll get an unequivocal response—employers can’t do that. And if you consult public polling on the issue, there ...

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  Boundaries are an important part of any relationship. They provide basic guidelines that establish how people can—and can’t—behave around each other to help ensure that a relationship is mutually respectful. One of the most important types of boundaries to ...

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By Melissa Azallion (Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a series on business immigration strategies in today’s immigration climate.) Proactively staying apprised of immigration regulations and upcoming changes can help employers in assisting their existing international employees with ...

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