South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A Spartanburg attorney and state representative recently received an award from the National Bar Association for her role leading its Women Lawyers Division. Rosalyn Henderson-Myers, who represents House District 31 in the General Assembly, received the NBA Division of the ...

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Two women drowned in the back of a locked cage while being taken for involuntary commitment to a mental hospital because the police van they were in took an unsafe route and rolled over, and deputies lacked a key or ...

Even in a deeply red state like South Carolina, where all statewide offices are held by Republicans, Democrats are making some inroads in the legislature. South Carolina Democrats on Tuesday wrested two state House seats from Republican incumbents. Columbia attorney ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court ...

The City of Spartanburg has a new city attorney. The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports the City Council chose Robert P. Coler of Greenville to fill the post during an executive session Nov. 5. Coler, a graduate of SUNY and the University ...

Republicans again swept to election victories across South Carolina on Tuesday, holding on to all seven statewide offices. But there was a fairly big crack in their electoral wall, as Democrats flipped a U.S. House seat from them for the ...

The time has come for South Carolina voters to decide if they will give Gov. Henry McMaster a full term in the office he’s held for nearly two years, as he goes head-to-head Tuesday with Democratic state Rep. James Smith ...

South Carolina has shattered the record for absentee ballots cast in a midterm election. The South Carolina Election Commission said more than 230,000 votes were cast as of Friday evening. That is 46 percent more absentee votes this year than ...

Just a few short months after walking 2,190 miles on a footpath from Georgia to Maine, Bruce Matson is back in the office in a high-rise in Richmond, Virginia, handling bankruptcy cases for LeClairRyan, where he’s a partner. He said ...

A South Carolina courthouse has been evacuated after bedbugs were found there for the second time in just over two weeks. York County Clerk of Court David Hamilton said specially trained dogs found evidence of bedbugs in both courtrooms of ...