South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  I recently participated in a 5K with my colleagues. We didn’t lace up running shoes and race outside for charity. We didn’t have to wake up early, shut down roads or pin a race bib onto our clothes. We ...

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The end of the special counsel’s investigation sparked fresh speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon some of those charged in the probe. It’s also spawned a don’t-go-there chorus from some of Trump’s closest advisers and GOP allies. They’re warning ...

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A beginning lawyer may feel the practice of law is overwhelming. But being an attorney requires that you assume the responsibilities of a true professional, as well as a business person, minding the economics of law practice and meeting the ...

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The House delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump on Thursday by voting to condemn his administration’s move to restrict transgender men and women from military service. A non-binding resolution opposing Trump’s transgender ban passed 238-185. Every Democrat supported the ...

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Turner Padget Graham & Laney has announced the addition of three new attorneys. William S. “Wilson” Jackson IV joins as an associate in the firm’s insurance litigation practice and is based in Charleston, William G. Oncken joins as an associate ...

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The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud. The court’s 6-2 ruling Wednesday affirms an appeals court decision against investment banker Francis Lorenzo over ...

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Prosecutors say a 53-year-old man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing his nephew on Christmas Day 2016 as he tried to intervene in an argument. Authorities say Roger Grate shot Darrell Doctor in the head on ...

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South Carolina prison officials say unclear court orders and ambiguous directions have left prison workers confused about how much time offenders should serve. The division director of classification and inmate records at the state Department of Corrections, Joette Scarborough, told ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Deeply troubled by a Mississippi prosecutor’s pattern of excluding African-American jurors, the Supreme Court seemed in broad agreement on March 20 that a black death row inmate’s conviction and death sentence at his sixth murder trial could ...

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  It should be obvious that, to try a case properly, you have to do a lot of planning and can’t just make it up as you go along. It also should be obvious that you can’t possibly carry around ...

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