South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment, with one conservative justice wondering if the court should take heed of “massive social upheaval” that could follow a ...

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  A late hour in a dark office. A sleep-deprived lawyer squints at a glowing flatscreen, her keyboard pattering: tappity tap tap tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. Tap tappity tap. Ctrl+C. Ctrl+V. A quick scroll, hit Send, a distant lightning flash and ...

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Running a small law firm isn’t easy. Practicing law is a full-time job in and of itself, and as a result most small firm lawyers don’t have the luxury of letting others run the back-end of their law firm. Instead, ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has once again declined to take up the case of a former northeastern Pennsylvania judge convicted in what prosecutors said were juveniles wrongly sent to a detention center. The denial Monday by the nation’s highest court ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former member of the board that oversees South Carolina highways will spend seven months in prison for trying to hire a prostitute just hours after he received probation for admitting he tried to derail an ...

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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — An attorney for a South Carolina town questioned the qualifications of a Town Council candidate after she said she would fire the government lawyers if elected. Brenda Corley is running for Mount Pleasant Town Council. ...

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By George P. Bukuras In my career I have had the opportunity to do business in China, where I was introduced to the ancient art of chengyu, the use of idiomatic phrases to convey figurative meaning — a type of ...

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By Lloyd C. Rosenberg I became a partner at my firm the same year that my son was born. My wife decided that she would be a stay-at-home mom. We then purchased a larger house that we could ill afford ...

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By Susan Letterman White BridgeTower Media Newswires Leading involves influencing people in a way that helps turn your vision for your law firm into reality, and a leader’s success depends on communication skills. Developing communication skills The most effective leaders ...

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A federal jury has sentenced a man to death for killing two employees during a 2017 bank robbery in South Carolina. The jury deliberated about six hours over two days before deciding Thursday on the death penalty instead of life ...

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