South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

BY DAVID EVETTE After more than two years of discussion and debate, new United States Department of Labor (DOL) regulations governing the mandatory payment of overtime for certain exempt white-collar employees are set to go into effect on Jan. 1, ...

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BY JONATHAN E. FIELDS As the market capitalization of all cryptocurrency approaches $300 billion, it seems a primer on cryptocurrency for divorce practitioners is timely, if not overdue.    The basics Digital currency, a form of currency that is available only ...

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America is the motherland of workaholics. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average U.S. citizen works 44 hours per week. Most are pushing 50 hours—and if you’re a lawyer, pulling 60 to 70 hour work weeks is all ...

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BY JED BYRNE As professional service providers, time is our most valuable resource. Building our business requires putting in time and doing the work. But in order to grow our business, we also need to spend time on non-revenue generating ...

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Imagine this: You’re a lawyer representing one of many defendants in a new lawsuit. You receive an email from the plaintiff’s lawyers, addressed to you as well as counsel for 19 other defendants. All that’s in the email is a ...

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By Dawn R. Solowey and Lynn A. Kappelman As trial lawyers representing employers, we have learned a great deal over time about how jurors tend to think about employment cases. Yet watching a jury deliberate during a mock trial — ...

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By Evan H. Krinick BridgeTower Media Newswires Two truisms: 1) smart people do stupid things; and 2) if something seems to be too good to be true, then it is probably not real. The first truism occurs when people forget ...

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If you’re on social media (or simply don’t live under a rock) then you’re likely savvy to the health trends taking over pop culture. Kale is in and carbs are out. Be sure to hit 10,000 steps per day. Eat ...

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  A late hour in a dark office. A sleep-deprived lawyer squints at a glowing flatscreen, her keyboard pattering: tappity tap tap tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. Tap tappity tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. A quick scroll, hit Send, a distant lightning flash and ...

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Running a small law firm isn’t easy. Practicing law is a full-time job in and of itself, and as a result most small firm lawyers don’t have the luxury of letting others run the back-end of their law firm. Instead, ...

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