South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The nation’s economic crisis has a new victim: juries. Jurors are increasingly requesting to be excused from service based on financial hardship due to the current economy. Anne W. Reed, a trial lawyer and jury consultant in Milwaukee recently saw ...

Like a hiker making his way through the forest, every person leaves a set of footprints nearly everywhere he goes. Only the tracks aren’t in mud, dirt or foliage the footprints are electronic, creating a trail that can be used ...

Last month, I intended to write about the ABA’s Report on the South Carolina Lawyer Discipline System, but I got diverted when some legislation caught my eye and I had to rant about that. I am easily distracted by things ...

Last month, I intended to write about the ABA’s Report on the South Carolina Lawyer Discipline System, but I got diverted when some legislation caught my eye and I had to rant about that. I am easily distracted by things ...

The economic downturn has prompted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to give special guidance to employers to help them avoid being sued for bias against workers with care-giving responsibilities. The agency published a technical assistance document, Employer Best Practices for ...

Independent medical exams remain a controversial issue between parties in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. After The New York Times published a series of articles at the end of March looking into independent medical exams in the state of ...

COLUMBIA (AP) Two years to the day after a South Carolina trooper was captured on video using his patrol car to bump a running suspect, a federal judge last week approved a deal that will allow the trooper to perform ...

In the current economic climate, it’s no surprise that many lawyers are looking for work. And law firms are seeking contract attorneys as a cost-effective way to staff specific projects. Hoping to meet both of these needs, Laurel Edgeworth recently ...

Medical experts who testify on behalf of plaintiffs say they are being increasingly intimidated through the use of ethics complaints over their testimony in medmal cases. In a growing trend, many national medical associations are creating ethics complaint procedures that ...

One of my favorite quotes is by famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden: “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” Intuitively, we know this is true. Yet, in just the past year, so many old and successful organizations, with such ...