South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A 60-foot (18.3-meter) tall flagpole put up in a backyard in Charleston must either be shortened or taken down, the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals has ruled. David Abdo’s lawyer argued before the board this week that the pole and ...

Tagged with: Zoning

That feeling I’ve been getting in my gut every time I go to McDonald’s wasn’t (just) indigestion—fast food really has been getting more expensive lately. Bloomberg recently reported that burger prices have been beefing up at a faster rate than ...

Tagged with: Costs

South Carolina will see a good, if not a great, economy next year as the United States continues to experience what likely will become in July the longest economic expansion in its history, local experts say. “We don’t know whether ...

South Carolina Speaker Jay Lucas is making a big shake-up to the leadership of the House by changing the chairman of the committee that handles spending. Rep. Brian White said Wednesday he is being removed as Ways and Means chairman ...

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott’s opposition to one of President Donald Trump’s nominees bucked GOP leadership, but it wasn’t necessarily out of character. Scott’s decision denied Thomas Farr the chance of becoming the next Trump appointment to the federal judiciary. Farr, ...

Tagged with: Sen. Tim Scott

South Carolina inmates and their accomplices used bread deliveries, a prison dairy and inmate work crews at the State House to smuggle drugs, cigarettes, cell phones and other items into state prisons, according to recently announced indictments. Seventeen people were ...

Hunter Adams has joined Baker, Ravenel & Bender in Columbia as an associate, where he practices in the areas of automobile liability, civil litigation, premises liability, and insurance coverage. Maheen Akhter has joined Wyche as an associate in the firm’s ...

Tagged with: Lawyers in the News

In early October, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its preliminary findings examining sexual harassment in the workplace over the past year. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, no one should be surprised to see the figures rise ...

Tagged with: Sexual Harassment

Whether you are just starting out or an experienced hand, you should take every opportunity you can to watch other lawyers try cases. When a trial lawyer stands up in open court, the lawyer is not only pleading the case, ...

Tagged with: trial advocacy

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has the authority to temporarily appoint a new chairman of the board for a state-owned utility without the Legislature’s permission whenever lawmakers aren’t in session, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. McMaster and the state ...

Tagged with: Santee Cooper