South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says a man pretended to be a lawyer and charged clients more than $81,000 in legal fees. News outlets report 76-year-old Michel V. Diago was arrested Tuesday and charged with ...

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By Susan Letterman White As lawyers, we place great importance on being rational and logical. We pride ourselves on keeping our emotions under control. However, as business leaders, when we present rational arguments to persuade a person or group to ...

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TEGA CAY, S.C. (AP) — A city in South Carolina has removed a monument to police officers that included a Bible verse and a prayer after upsetting both religious and secular residents. A Tega Cay resident complained about the religious ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The State Grand Jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on a murder charge for the drug overdose of a South Carolina man. Shiv Tailor also faces 14 drug charges from indictments handed up by the State ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a 60-year-old South Carolina doctor found guilty of trading painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs for money and sex says the physician wrote the prescriptions for legitimate medical purposes. Defense lawyer Chris Adams said Dr. ...

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The lawyer for a 60-year-old South Carolina doctor found guilty of trading painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs for money and sex says the physician wrote the prescriptions for legitimate medical purposes. Defense lawyer Chris Adams said Dr. Ronald Hargrave of Mount ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s corrections chief has moved death row prisoners for the second time in two years, this time trying to answer concerns over inmate treatment raised in a federal lawsuit. In their new home, the 37 ...

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By DAVID CRARY and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color “go back” to countries “from which they came” has excited some in his political base. Yet in ...

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By EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An inmate suing the South Carolina prison system says he was stabbed inside his cell and couldn’t find an officer to help him. News outlets report 34-year-old Devodus Rouse filed the lawsuit this month, claiming irresponsibility ...

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