South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

On Jan. 28, President Bush signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which contains a provision amending the Family and Medical Leave Act for the first time since the FMLA was enacted in 1993. The ...

Briefly… The law firm of Babb and Brown has opened its third office in the Upstate, located in Duncan. It will be the firm’s first office in the Spartanburg area. Attorney Robin Grossman Poliakoff, an associate in the tax, estate ...

Regular readers of this column know that I consider the client intake process to be the most important step in the collection process. An appropriate conversation and written agreement with your client about payment of fees in the beginning of ...

Briefly… Tigerron A. “Tiger” Wells has joined the Columbia office of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd as an associate. He is a member of the business & consumer products industry group and represents the firm’s clients in business matters, including litigation, corporate ...

Attorney Joel W. Collins Jr. has been elected president of the Foundation of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Collins, a founding partner of Collins & Lacy in Columbia, took office in January. Collins conducts an active practice in complex ...

Briefly… Ellis Law-horne attorney John T. Lay Jr. has been selected as president-elect of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association. Lay will serve a one-year term as president beginning in November. Attorney Franklin Daniels has joined Nexsen Pruet as ...

The foundation of any lawyer’s life and practice is the relationship with the client. Without clients there is no reason to be a lawyer. Lawyers don’t just practice law, they serve clients. One brief story brings that home. The Wall ...

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Few (if any) of us today expect politicians to write their own speeches or CEOs to write their own shareholder letters in the annual report. Ghostwriting is a fact of modern communication. But where does that leave lawyers — who ...

There’s just not enough time in a day. Where did the years go? How did I get to this age so fast? Got to get to that backburner client matter tomorrow! If you’re like me, these types of thoughts pop ...