South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina transportation official has been sentenced to 45 days of home confinement and 18 months of probation for telling someone to destroy emails before the FBI could read them. Former Department of Transportation ...

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By Jared L. Hubbard and Malgorzata Mrózek In today’s globalized economy, local companies can have a global reach, entering into mergers, acquisitions, manufacturing contracts, licensing agreements, joint ventures, and research and development partnerships with companies and institutions around the world. ...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy who shot and wounded a South Carolina homeowner through a window in June was also among several officers who fatally shot a man two years ago. Greenville County Deputy Kevin Azzara and the ...

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BY JACK PRINGLE All attorneys owe various ethical (competency, confidentiality and safeguarding client property) and legal (a host of state and federal laws) obligations to protect information. We’re in an age of great potential technological “upside” (blockchains, artificial intelligence, machine ...

SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say they have charged a 33-year-old man and a 17-year-old man in the deaths of two people during a robbery in South Carolina. Sumter Police said they are also investigating if Kelvin Bell and his ...

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A South Carolina inmate serving a murder sentence who was also convicted of running a drug ring from behind bars on contraband cellphones orchestrated the killing of a woman from his cell last month, a sheriff said Friday. Michelle Dodge, ...

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When Michael Freeman was released from a South Carolina prison in December 2016, he began the slow and strenuous process of trying to pick up the pieces of his life and rebuild. It took him years of hard work, but ...

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KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in South Carolina stole two counterfeit $100 bills from an evidence room and spent them at a local store. The State Law Enforcement Division said 46-year-old Kingstree Police officer Sallica Williams ...

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BY KENNETH R. BERMAN Two recent court decisions — one from each coast — show why conventional witness preparation needs a warning label: Use at your own risk.  The first one, the Qualcomm case, shows how conventional approaches to witness preparation can ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on police releasing body camera footage of a man shot by an officer in his South Carolina home (all times local): 2:30 p.m. The lawyer for a South Carolina homeowner shot by a police ...

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