South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a former South Carolina policeman sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in the shooting death of an unarmed motorist who was running away from a ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers are returning to the Capitol before the 2020 session starts in January after all. Senate President Harvey Peeler and House Speaker Jay Lucas announced on May 5 they will hold what they hope is ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A jury has convicted a Lexington County father of murder in the deaths of his five young children, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The jury considered the case for about six hours over two days before returning ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — The former chief prosecutor for Richland and Kershaw counties is heading to prison for stealing public money for hotel rooms in Chicago and Las Vegas and a plane ticket to Panama. Former Fifth Circuit Solicitor Dan Johnson was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute involving the pirate Blackbeard’s sunken ship is on deck for the Supreme Court’s next term. The justices said June 3 that they will hear arguments in the fall in a copyright case involving the Queen Anne’s Revenge, ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina is again at the center of federal litigation spawned by a waiver allowing a state-contracted foster care agency to deny services to same-sex and non-Christian families. A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses the state ...

By Sharon L. Thornton BridgeTower Media Newswires The most important gift that you can leave your heirs is a well-thought-out transition of property. Circumstances change in life. It could be divorce, death, deciding to no longer enable grown children to ...

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BridgeTower Media Newswires The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 7,609 sexual harassment charges in 2018, which represents a 13.6 percent increase from 2017. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, this is perhaps unsurprising. As a default position, many ...

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By Matthew Prinn BridgeTower Media Newswires Most law firms, big or small, realize that it makes sense for lawyers who practice in the same area to meet, typically by phone or video conference, every month or quarter. These meetings can ...

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By Thomas Franz BridgeTower Media Newswires An annual survey of law firms with 50 or more lawyers shows that more firms improved their financial performance last year and are looking to the future with more optimism than previous editions of ...

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