South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  You’ve earned the degree, passed the bar, and landed a gig. But moving up in the lawyer world takes more — namely, some understanding of basic marketing principles. Although a crucial piece of the puzzle for long-term business success, ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A former police chief of Columbia has been arrested for a third time in less than a year. The Florence County Sheriff’s Office deputies were alerted May 18 to a stolen vehicle near a Timmonsville motel and connected ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s death row is getting its first new prisoner in more than five years after a jury sentenced a man to death for the shooting of a store clerk during a robbery. Jerome Jenkins did not ...

The number of people working in South Carolina climbed to a record 2,281,003 people in April, while the state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 3.4% from 3.2% in March. Working individuals grew by an estimated 6,704 from March, according to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge says a South Carolina political consultant can remain free until his trial on perjury charges. Richard Quinn Sr. was indicted last month on obstruction of justice and 11 perjury charges as part of an ...

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By Patrick Hoff A federal judge has denied a resentencing request from a Ponzi scheme mastermind who swindled about $66 million from hundreds of people. Al Parish was sentenced to 292 months in prison for the scheme by Judge David Norton in ...

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Santee Cooper has filed a federal complaint seeking a formal declaration that the state-owned utility is the sole owner of equipment purchased for the abandoned nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer nuclear power station. The utility is asking a New ...

The South Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld a decision from a Charleston County circuit court voiding the town of Awendaw’s attempt to annex a strip of land 1.25 miles, but only ten feet wide, running through the Francis Marion ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Members of a committee have briefly met for the first time to hash out differences between the proposed South Carolina budget passed by the House and Senate. The conference committee met for less than 15 minutes on ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court has suspended the law license of the state’s former top federal prosecutor and law enforcement officer. The State Supreme Court issued an order Monday suspending the license of Reggie Lloyd and 19 other ...