South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

About 19 percent of the U.S. population has some type of disability, according to the Census Bureau. Of adults ages 21 to 64 with disabilities, only 46 percent are employed, compared to 84 percent of adults without disabilities. Many people ...

For the first time, as of Jan. 1, 2010, individuals with an adjusted gross income of more than $100,000 can convert an existing IRA or 401(k) account into a Roth IRA. Estate planning attorneys should contact their clients about this ...

Google has unveiled a new online search tool that will enable users to find case law and full-text opinions from state, federal and appellate courts for free. But it hasn’t garnered an absolute endorsement from law librarians yet. Those who ...

In the last six months, Robert McCormick Davies’ lender clients have been calling him with a question they never thought they’d have to ask: Are we on the hook to become a real estate developer? What’s happened, said Davies, from ...

A recent survey by the National Association for Law Placement suggested that approximately 2 percent of 2008 law school graduates opened a solo practice within nine months of graduation. According to the American Bar Association, in the 2008-09 academic year, ...

Bankruptcy attorneys face a host of ethical issues even before their clients file a petition for bankruptcy. The goal is to preserve a nest egg or protect assets that might survive the bankruptcy process, but pre-petition planning requires a careful ...

In late September, the S.C. Supreme Court issued an order in response to the study performed by the American Bar Association, which critiqued and made suggestions for improvement to the attorney-discipline process in South Carolina. The ABA’s report, issued in ...

Bowman and Brooke, a national law firm known for defending household-name corporations in high-exposure product liability and commercial cases, will open a new office in Columbia on Dec. 1. Joel H. Smith will be the managing partner. Smith has been ...

Fredericksburg, Va., attorney Andrew Flusche never met his former office assistant. She lives in Akron, Ohio, and did all his work remotely. Flusche also never met his virtual receptionist, who lives in Portland, Ore. As a 2007 law graduate looking ...

Having written critically about the implications of major law firms offering newly hired associates to fill vacant judiciary clerkships, it seems only fair to cite a more positive trend. In October 2009, the Associated Press reported that, to postpone the ...