South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

K&L Gates has announced that Caitlin Nevin has joined its Charleston office as an associate in its real estate practice group and Ryan Goer has joined as an associate in the its banking and asset finance practice group, also in ...

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SIMPSONVILLE (AP) — The South Carolina city of Simpsonville and its police department are accused of allowing the destruction of DNA evidence in a decades old rape and slaying case. The Greenville News reports the lawsuit by Clovetta Johnson says ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Attorneys for a South Carolina father accused of killing his five children are carefully going over his full confession in court as they seek to prove their insanity case. Timothy Jones Jr.’s lawyers asked Lexington County Sheriff’s ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Teachers and almost all state workers are getting a raise in South Carolina’s $9 billion budget approved by both the House and Senate on May 21. The budget sets aside $160 million for raises for teachers, who ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A former police chief of Columbia has been arrested for a third time in less than a year. The Florence County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted May 18 to a stolen vehicle near a Timmonsville motel and connected ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s death row is getting its first new prisoner in more than five years after a jury sentenced a man to death for the shooting of a store clerk during a robbery. Jerome Jenkins did not ...

The number of people working in South Carolina climbed to a record 2,281,003 people in April, while the state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 3.4% from 3.2% in March. Working individuals grew by an estimated 6,704 from March, according to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge says a South Carolina political consultant can remain free until his trial on perjury charges. Richard Quinn Sr. was indicted last month on obstruction of justice and 11 perjury charges as part of an ...

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By Patrick Hoff A federal judge has denied a resentencing request from a Ponzi scheme mastermind who swindled about $66 million from hundreds of people. Al Parish was sentenced to 292 months in prison for the scheme by Judge David Norton in ...

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Santee Cooper has filed a federal complaint seeking a formal declaration that the state-owned utility is the sole owner of equipment purchased for the abandoned nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power station. The utility is asking a New ...