South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys in three different civil lawsuits against Alex Murdaugh want the court to have independent representatives take control of the money and other assets of the South Carolina lawyer involved in a half-dozen state police investigations. ...

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Private businesses often rely on infusions of cash from their owners — whether to start the business, fund its expansion or develop its next great product. The infusions can be small, such as amounts needed to get through a payroll ...

More more applicants sat for the July 2021 bar exam in South Carolina than sat for last summer’s administration, and the pass rate dipped slightly, due in large part to out-of-state examinees not faring quite as well as they did ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until a federal appeals court threw it out in ...

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Nexsen Pruet announced that Kamri Barber, Emory Sloan, and Erica Wells have joined the firm in its Columbia office, and Caitlin Walker has joined the firm in its Greenville office. Barber and Walker both focus their practices on employment and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Leading South Carolina Republican lawmakers are dismissing allegations they are taking too long to draw new congressional and legislative districts, arguing that legal action should be held off until new lines are actually drawn. The response ...

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It is commonplace in almost every litigation matter today, but it still strikes fear in the minds of many lawyers: electronic discovery. From collecting data to protecting it in a secure environment, the federal rules require lawyers to competently gather ...

WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has suspended the probate judge in Oconee County for 18 months for breaking judicial rules for a second time. Kenneth “Kenny” Johns improperly acted as a character witness for an out-of-state ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney on Tuesday demanded that a South Carolina prosecutor revisit a case and criminally charge the two jail employees who stunned a mentally ill Black man 10 times and kneeled on his ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An upstate South Carolina man who spent four years in jail while accused of murder has been found not guilty. The Greenville News reports that jurors acquitted 36-year-old Diderikcous Jacobi Hill on Friday in the 2017 ...

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