South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina General Assembly will start its final week of the 2021 session with several consequential bills on their agendas. The House has on its calendar a bill to throw South Carolina’s name on a list ...

Tagged with: police reform

The South Carolina Ports Authority has shifted two containerships intended to call on the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal back to Wando Welch Terminal as shipping companies look to stay out of the fray cause by a union lawsuit, the Port ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — A jury found a South Carolina man not guilty of murder in a 2015 Beaufort County killing. It was the third time prosecutors brought Ishmael Rivers to trial. The first time a judge stopped the trial ...

Tagged with: Beaufort County

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina senators debating a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Wednesday rejected an attempt to get rid of the requirement for the permits. Senators voted 25-21 against the ...

Tagged with: Open carry

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant, his manager ...

Tagged with: intellectual disability

CHARLESTON (AP) — Private schools and colleges asked a federal judge Monday to strike down the provision in South Carolina’s constitution that bars public money for private and religious schools, saying the 1895 measure is discriminatory. The Roman Catholic Diocese ...

Tagged with: private schools

There’s an art to legal writing. You want to tell your client’s story in a compelling fashion, but so much of the language is rather dry, especially if you have to refer to someone as “Intervenor” or “Third-Party Defendant” dozens ...

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina has long been one of a handful of states where lottery winners can remain anonymous unless they choose to come forward, but that practice is receiving increased scrutiny, thanks to a decision from the state’s ...

Tagged with: lottery

By Tanisha Palvia, Brooks Pierce  Adjusting to life during a global pandemic, we have found ways to effectively do almost everything remotely—even depositions. Online depositions will likely remain in use long after the pandemic has passed, especially since more attorneys have ...

Tagged with: remote depositions

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before the Supreme Court in the most significant ...

Tagged with: Freedom of Speech