South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Officials at one South Carolina county jail said their investment in a new full body scanner paid off immediately. The Aiken County Detention Center installed scanner Oct. 14 and found heroin inside a body cavity of ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were killed five months ago and has since found himself part of a half-dozen state investigations and a number of lawsuits had his assets frozen on Nov. 2 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As port logjams across the country continue to constrain the U.S. supply chain, the union that represents dockworkers at South Carolina’s ports tells The Associated Press it is calling on the Biden administration for help in ...

Tagged with: port of Charleston

In the internet age, if we can’t quite recall the precise name of something—a school, for instance—we can usually fill in our blanks with a quick and easy search. If only Google had existed in the 1970s, it might have ...

CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina lawyer involved in a half-dozen state police investigations has been cagey about his assets and should have to hand over control of his money to independent representatives so that he does not engage ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted a man who admitted to an innocence panel that he broke into a woman’s house 36 years ago and killed her, adding that the man sent to prison ...

Tagged with: Murder

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he ...

Tagged with: Charleston church shooting

BY KAREN NATZEL BridgeTower Media Newswires We often equate emotional intelligence (EQ) with empathy—the ability to be aware of, understand, be sensitive to, and vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts and experiences of another. While truly a demonstration of high EQ, ...

BY CHRISTOPHER F. EARLEY BridgeTower Media Newswires “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou The number one reason lawyers ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A former assistant public defender has settled his lawsuit against his boss and Charleston County for $605,000. Beattie Butler accused Ashley Pennington, the county’s top public defender, of violating his constitutional right to free speech when ...

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