South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a South Carolina man spiked his live-in girlfriend’s soda with methamphetamine and muscle relaxers, leading her to black out and wake days later severely beaten and bruised. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office tells news ...

Tagged with: Drug Crime

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man from Georgia came to South Carolina to have sex with a 13-year-old girl and threw her out of his vehicle while speeding away from police. Richland County deputies said an officer saw ...

Tagged with: sexual assault

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who federal agents said exploded two bombs outside a South Carolina courthouse had his lawsuit about poor jail conditions in the same county thrown out just days earlier. The ...

Tagged with: sue

BY JOHN GILLERAN Although “smart contracts” have been the subject of much discussion in the information technology field, the impact that they will have on the legal profession is not well known, in part because the capabilities of such contracts ...

Tagged with: Contract

COLUMBIA (AP) — Prosecutors say a former South Carolina transportation commissioner told a government witness who had made payments to him to destroy emails before the FBI could find them, according to a sentencing memo filed July 15 in federal court. ...

Today’s corporate counsel must be much more than a good lawyer. More and more, that role calls for skills in project management and administration as well as the key element of protecting the organization from risk. That’s part of the ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued policy guidance in its Policy Manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including marijuana use, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization purposes, regardless ...

EDGEFIELD (AP) — Leroy Nolan has spent the last 26 years behind bars at a federal prison for a drug conviction. In the prison factory, he works making T-shirts, backpacks and other products that are later sold to government agencies, ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — A patient at a state mental hospital in South Carolina died earlier this year after being at the bottom of a dogpile of several employees — something specifically prohibited in their training. Three of the 13 employees ...

CHARLESTON (AP) — A former police chief in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $80,000 seized during a traffic stop. Former Manning Police Chief Gary Shaffer will be sentenced at a later date after pleading guilty July 11 to ...