South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The world that large, mid-sized and even many smaller law firms knew on Jan. 1, 2008, is likely gone forever. High associate starting salaries, million-dollar partner draws, constantly rising rates and the occasional leveraged merger with another firm were fixtures ...

The next time you down a few drinks and start belting out karaoke at the local watering hole, take heed that your musical accompaniment may have been procured illegally. That’s the contention of a lawsuit filed by Sound Choice, a ...

Injury lawsuits related to cheerleading, recently named the most dangerous youth sport, are springing up around the country. The sport has come a long way from pom-poms and cartwheels, now featuring spectacular aerial acrobatics by lithe female “flyers” who are ...

Business owners know that a bankruptcy is not necessarily the end of the world. And many of them expect to emerge from bankruptcy financially solvent, with viable companies and sensible business plans. Unfortunately, their customers, suppliers, investors and the public ...

The events of the past year have created a general belief that the traditional large law firm model is broken. The question is how to fix it. The conventional ideas being talked about and even implemented alternative fee arrangements, greater ...

For the first time in almost 30 years, the Federal Trade Commission has issued guidelines governing testimonials and endorsements and for the first time, included guidance that cover bloggers and other online social media platforms. The Guides Concerning the Use ...

On Aug. 11, in an opinion long-awaited by the bankruptcy and securitization communities, the Honorable Allan L. Gropper of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions to dismiss the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases ...

I had the distinct pleasure of attending retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s roof-raising dinner discussion at a joint conference of South Carolina and North Carolina women attorneys in Charleston a couple of weeks back. She was, as I ...

W. Thomas Rutledge Jr. of the Charleston office of the Moore & Van Allen law firm is the top-ranked bridge player in South Carolina. He is 63rd in North America in the number of master points won at tournaments in ...

It used to be a given at law firms, and in fact was the only “advertising” many firms did: engraved letterhead stationery with the firm name (combining four, five, six or more named partners), with all partners listed either at ...