South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

In a recent column, law firm consultant John Tredennick made a most trenchant comment about legal service outsourcing: “All these [outsourced] services can be a boon to a firm of any size looking to perform more efficiently. But just because ...

Lawyers and law firms that find themselves faced with more business than they can reasonably handle (assume we’re talking normal times and not today’s “twilight zone” conditions) may decide to add a new associate lawyer. These associates are typically paid ...

Briefly… Litigator Ronald B. Cox recently joined the Columbia office of Nexsen Pruet as special counsel. He concentrates his practice in the areas of civil litigation, products liability, toxic torts and construction litigation. Cox, who received his J.D. from the ...

Justice Costa M. Pleicones watches the unveiling of his portrait during the S.C. Association for Justice’s convention Aug. 9 in Hilton Head Island. Justice Pleicones was selected by the group as this year’s portrait honoree. The jurist joked that the ...

F. Earl Ellis Jr., of Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims was presented with the worthy adversary award by the S.C. Association for Justice, formerly known as the S.C. Trial Lawyers Association, at its annual convention in Hilton Head Island Aug. 9. ...

In years past it was a cliché that children dreamed of becoming president of the United States when they grew up. That’s likely still the case to some extent, but given today’s gigantic salaries in segments of Corporate America, it’s ...

A constant theme in these columns has been the business client’s growing dissatisfaction with the current model (especially at large firms) of hourly rate billing, a high hourly rate structure and the apparent overstaffing necessary to generate fees to support ...

Reese Joye, a Lowcountry personal injury litigator, has died. He was 70. Born in Bennettsville in 1938, Joye earned both his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and law degree from the University of South Carolina. He went on to work ...

Lawyers have a consistent tendency to focus on the task at hand without communicating their actions to the client. You may be doing a great job with documents, the court or the opposing party, but the client is never told. ...

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