South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Three attorneys from the firm Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard, LLC have completed year-long leadership programs in cities across South Carolina. The graduates are Jones Dubose, a member of the firm’s Columbia office; Molly Hughes, an associate in Charleston; and ...

Attorney Ellen Stretcher Cheek has hired on with the Michael Wilkes Law Firm of Spartanburg. Cheek is a 1995 graduate of the Emory University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Georgia and South Carolina. Cheek is a ...

Charleston attorney Walker Coleman has been selected to serve in a leadership position for the Defense Research Institute. Coleman will serve as vice chairman of the Panel Counsel Committee for DRI’s Employment Law Section. He practices with Nexsen Pruet Jacobs ...

T. Alexander Evins, a partner in the firm Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, has been elected as a member of the board of trustees of the Mary Black Foundation. His election was announced at the board’s annual meeting on June ...

Attorneys Jill Wright Fennel and Ian Maguire recently addressed the South Carolina Association of Legal Investigators, Inc. during the group’s annual conference held in Myrtle Beach. Fennel and Maguire briefed the group on what investigators can do to help personal ...

The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation has named a six-attorney litigation team from the firm Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman as a national finalist for the foundation’s Trial Lawyer of the Year award. The foundation selected the team for ...

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism will honor two law schools and a bar association with the 2003 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Awards. The awards will be presented Friday, Aug. 8, during the ABA Annual Meeting in San ...

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC recently announced that the firm is the recipient of the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund 2003 Corporate Leadership Award. The award is the highest honor presented by the fund to recognize those businesses, and ...

Columbia attorney Reginald W. Belcher has become a shareholder in the McNair Law Firm. Belcher hired on at the firm in 1994 as a law clerk and joined the firm’s labor and employment section as an associate in 1996. His ...

Columbia attorney William C. Hubbard, a partner in the firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., was elected on May 12 to the Council of The American Law Institute at the ALI’s 80th Annual Meeting in Chicago. The council, ...