South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

South Carolina attorneys can get 7.5 hours of free CLE credit at two upcoming mental health “first aid” courses being offered in March and April. The courses will take place in Columbia on March 15 and Greenville on April 12. ...

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North Greenville University has settled a False Claims Act lawsuit for $2.5 million after the federal government alleged the school had illegally used U.S. Department of Education funds to pay for incentive-based student recruitment services. Title IV of the Higher ...

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CAMDEN (AP) — A professional circus clown who ran for Congress last year has died in South Carolina. An obituary from Kornegay Funeral Home of Lugoff, South Carolina, says 53-year-old Steve Lough died on Feb. 23. The funeral home did ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees who work for covered employers with up to 12 weeks (sometimes more) of protected time off work. Most employees use FMLA in good faith. However, there are some bad apples ...

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People often ask me where I get new client referrals. The answer is complicated. But I think one thing that helps generate business is having a varied and interesting personal and professional network. Though it would be easy to hang ...

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Most trial presentations center on a narrative — that is, the facts of the case, woven into a story. With rare exceptions, that story should be told in chronological order. It’s almost always more interesting, more effective, and more compelling ...

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Funding, diversity, and technological advances were hot topics discussed in Chief Justice Donald Beatty’s 2019 State of the Judiciary address, offered in a joint session of the South Carolina General Assembly Feb. 27. While the judiciary has scraped by in ...

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Meredith Ann Krzyston has joined Robinson Gray in Columbia as an associate, focusing on workers’ compensation. She previously worked in the 7th Circuit Solicitor’s office. Clawson and Staubes announced that it has named South Carolina-based attorneys Penn Ely and Kelli ...

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A viral story about an act of cookie kindness has taken a strange turn after a Greenville area man was charged with drug smuggling and distribution. It turns out that a then-mysterious Girl Scout cookie buyer, who had been hailed ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — Dan Johnson spent two decades in South Carolina and Iraq prosecuting felons. On Tuesday, the former prosecutor became a felon himself. Johnson pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud in a scheme that authorities say stole ...