South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — A once prominent South Carolina lawyer now faces 75 charges he stole nearly $8.5 million in wrongful death and wreck settlements from more than a dozen people after another round of indictments against Alex Murdaugh were handed ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A Democratic state senator who drew new U.S. House districts in South Carolina that would likely generate at least one more chance to send a Democrat to Washington said Wednesday he will wait to debate the his ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A judge refused on Tuesday to lower the $7 million bail for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is charged with stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable clients. Murdaugh’s lawyers had unsuccessfully argued that the high ...

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Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales. The CEOs of both companies were aware of the deal and signed off on it, the ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Friday named a Columbia-area attorney to become the next chair of the state’s health board. The governor has nominated Robert Bolchoz to the board of the Department of Health and ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said Monday that he’s so broke he can’t pay a phone bill — much less $7 million in bail — while a court-appointed overseer said Murdaugh needs to ...

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Madison Bailey Barnhill has joined Turner Padget as an associate in the firm’s wealth and estate planning practice group in its Columbia office. Barnhill’s practice will focus on wills and trusts, estate and gift taxes, real estate transfers, charitable giving, ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers opened their 2022 session on Tuesday with the familiar problem of the COVID-19 pandemic and a more unfamiliar problem of bank accounts bursting with money. As is customary for the first day, lawmakers didn’t ...

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After years of dropping in response to plummeting interest rates across the country, the interest rate on money decrees and judgments in South Carolina will remain unchanged in 2022, the state’s Supreme Court announced on Jan. 6. South Carolina has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court began hearing arguments Friday on major Biden administration work rules to bump up the nation’s vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. The justices were ...

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