South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The Federal Reserve took a hatchet to interest rates in 2019, bringing down the cost of borrowing for almost anyone in need of credit. Those cuts are now making their way into legal rate of interest on money judgments in ...

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Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd announced that David Caughran, Elliot Condon, Joseph Spate and Phillips Workman have all joined the firm. Caughran joins the public finance team in the firm’s Charleston office. Condon, also in the firm’s Charleston office, practices products liability ...

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A South Carolina man is accused of killing his 14-month-old son by slamming him into a wall and throwing him into furniture. Ashton Robert Clark, 24, has been charged with homicide by child abuse, news outlets report. He initially was ...

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  The South Carolina Supreme Court has expanded the Digital Courtroom Recorder Program to additional courts in the state in an effort to address a shortage of traditional court reporters in the state’s judicial branch. The program currently operates in ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The lawyer representing a South Carolina teacher who sued her school district for requiring her to provide gift baskets and work in the school’s concession stand without being paid wants to open the lawsuit to educators ...

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A South Carolina university is refusing to release campus police records from a reported sexual assault. Furman University says it doesn’t have to comply with South Carolina’s open records laws because it’s a private institution and not a public one. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said that it will consider expanding protections for churches against job-discrimination claims. The justices agreed on Dec. 18 to review two cases in which a federal appeals court allowed discrimination lawsuits by teachers against ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced that State Rep. Bobby Cox of Greenville will be the state’s first secretary of Veterans’ Affairs, a position created in May when state lawmakers created the South Carolina Department of Veterans’ Affairs. “Colonel Cox ...

GREENVILLE (AP) — A South Carolina deputy arresting a woman and her boyfriend said the woman was “too pretty” and asked for her number while taking her to jail, according to a lawsuit. The lawsuit is one of two accusing ...

George McMaster, one of three brothers of South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster who have had their licenses to practice law suspended by the state’s Supreme Court, has resigned his law license rather than face disciplinary action by the court. McMaster ...