South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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The Charleston firm Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee has hired attorney Martha H. Rhodes. Rhodes is a 2001 graduate of the University of South Carolina’s law school and clerked for Judge Jackson V. Gregory. Rhodes will focus her practice on ...

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Hodges, who vowed to do “whatever it takes” to keep plutonium shipments out of South Carolina, is destined to lose the standoff between the state and the U.S. Department of Energy, a legal scholar says. The ...

North Myrtle Beach attorney Jill Wright Fennel recently conducted two seminars on advanced legal writing for paralegals in Charleston and Columbia. The programs were sponsored by the Institute of Paralegal Education. Fennel serves on the institute’s faculty and is an ...

Attorney Scott M. Anderson has opened the Anderson Law Firm at 111 East North Street, Greenville. Before forming the firm, Anderson practiced with Robertson & Anderson. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina’s law school and concentrates ...

Attorneys Carroll H. Roe Jr., James H. Cassidy, William A. Coates and V. Clark Price have opened the law firm Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, P.A. The firm is located at 1000 East North Street, Greenville. D. Sean Faulkner has ...

COLUMBIA — Senators consigned a bill calling for gubernatorial appointments of attorneys general and education superintendents to the junk pile last week. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted not to take the legislation up again this year, meaning the bill will ...

COLUMBIA — Teachers would choose whether to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms under a bill that cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The bill lets school boards adopt policies that allow teachers to make the decision to ...

COLUMBIA — Sens. Dick Elliott and Glenn McConnell are crafting a bill that would give local governments the authority to restrict casino boats. Elliott, D-North Myrtle Beach, said he began working on a bill at the request of Horry County ...

GREENVILLE — A bill giving parents a choice to destroy their newborn’s blood sample after genetic testing appears to have the Legislature’s support, and a spokesman for Gov. Jim Hodges says the governor supports the bill. The proposal would allow ...