South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

After a weeklong trial, a Charleston County jury deliberated approximately three hours before awarding $1 million to a mother and her adult daughter after they were exposed to high levels of mold in their Mount Pleasant apartment.   The attorney for ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury

The SC Bar is collaborating with county libraries across the Palmetto State to offer a series of free sessions for the public on key legal topics, an SC Bar news release stated.  Called Law Talks, these events are designed to ...

Columbia-based McKay Firm adds partner   The Columbia-based McKay Firm has announced the promotion of Joe Catalano to the position of partner with the firm.   Catalano practices in the areas of Transportation and Trucking Law, Government Defense and Section 1983 Defense, ...

Tagged with: Lawyers in the News

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile case in the federal court system, it had the hallmarks of another explosive storyline in the Justice Department’s investigation ...

Tagged with: President Donald Trump

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof’s death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should be upheld and don’t merit review by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for the federal ...

 By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com  Located a block away from South Carolina’s Supreme Court, in the shadow of the State House, and just blocks from Richland County Circuit Court, South Carolina law firm, Collins & Lacy, P.C., has renewed its decades-long ...

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By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com  Attorney Stephanie M. Brinkley has been appointed chair of the American Bar Association’s Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) Committee for the 2022-23 year.   Brinkley founded her Charleston-based practice, Brinkley Law Firm, in 2011, with the firm’s main ...

Tagged with: ABA

By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com  The SC Bar has recognized Kieley Sutton for her efforts as co-founder of the Rainy Day Fund, a nonprofit based in Columbia serving citizens who are involved in the legal-system and in need.  An assistant public ...

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By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com  Wyche attorney Rita Bolt Barker has been elected as a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.  The American College of Environmental Lawyers elects fellows based on their recognition as the top environmental attorneys in ...

Womble Bond Dickinson Partner Stephanie Yarbrough has been appointed to the firm’s global board, the governing body that oversees and directs all transatlantic activities for Womble Bond Dickinson, according to a news release from the firm. She will serve a ...