South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — Donald Trump has added two more former federal prosecutors from South Carolina to his impeachment legal team, according to one of the lawyers. “It is confirmed,” Greg Harris, an attorney in the capital city of Columbia, told ...

As you plan for a successful 2021 for your law firm, don’t forget to consider how you plan to use social media to forward your firm’s marketing and business development goals in the coming year. Importantly, you may want to ...

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By F. Dennis Saylor IV and Daniel I. Small BridgeTower Media Newswires Whatever may divide us as a society, we all seem to have one thing in common: spending hours every day staring at screens. Pretty much everyone has now ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A bill that would assure lawmakers have a chance to change or end a prolonged state of emergency from South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster passed the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 26. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed some ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Donald Trump is adding another South Carolina attorney to his impeachment legal team. Deborah Barbier, a former federal prosecutor-turned-defense attorney who specializes in white-collar crime, had been hired to join Butch Bowers in crafting a defense for ...

South Carolina’s February bar exam will be conducted as a live, in-person examination notwithstanding the ongoing disruption from COVID-19, the state’s Supreme Court has announced. The July 2020 bar exam was held in person with various mitigation measures imposed, including ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — The leader of the South Carolina House of Representatives wants to add two more justices to the state’s Supreme Court. Republican House Speaker Jay Lucas said most states have either seven or nine justices. South Carolina’s highest ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Butch Bowers is used to defending public officials in ethics cases. But he’s never faced anything quite like this. It’s up to Bowers, a Columbia elections and ethics lawyer, to rise and defend Donald Trump as the ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — Police officers and journalists outnumbered demonstrators Wednesday at the South Carolina Statehouse, which was closed to the public because of security reasons. About a dozen people, both for and against new President Joe Biden, stood on the ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has filed a criminal complaint against a South Carolina man who authorities said was captured taking a selfie with a statue of John C. Calhoun while illegally storming the U.S. Capitol with supporters of President ...

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