South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Upstate attorney Roy McBee Smith was recently spotlighted in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Smith, 76, served as the Spartanburg County attorney for 41 years before stepping aside earlier this year. In the article, Smith reminisced about the first military case he ...

Attorney Hamilton E. “Bo” Russell III has joined the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Greenville. Russell’s practice will focus on corporate and securities law — particularly for technology companies, community banks, financial institutions and venture-stage ...

Blogs, or blawgs, are being hailed by some as the key to Web success in 2005. According to two surveys conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November 2004, 8 million Americans reported that they had created ...

The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace, the Standard & Poor’s public finance rating directory, has ranked McNair Law Firm, P.A. 26th out of the top 100 bond counsel firms in the United States for underwriters’ counsel in dollar volume of long-term ...

Nelson Mullins’ products liability practice is the fourth-best in the nation, according to legal publishers Chambers & Partners. The firm’s corporate/mergers and acquisitions, and general commercial litigation practices were selected as the best in South Carolina, while labor and employment, ...

Margaret C. Pope, a public finance attorney in the Columbia office of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., has been appointed by Gov. Mark Sanford to serve on the Governor’s Commission on Women. The GCW’s mission is to enhance the quality of ...

Attorney Michael A. Graham has joined the firm of Rogers Townsend & Thomas in Columbia. Graham’s practice involves construction law, products liability litigation, as well as risk management and litigation. Graham earned his law degree from Campbell University, where he ...

Fernando Colon-Navarro, a popular law professor and associate dean at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, will serve as a visiting professor at the Charleston School of Law during the 2005-2006 academic year, Dean ...

Joint ventures are on the rise among health care providers. Physicians are joint venturing with each other and with hospitals on outpatient facilities, health services and equipment, real estate projects, managed care contracting ventures and practice management ventures. In our ...

Attorney William Jennings Buchanan has joined the law firm of Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC in Columbia. Buchanan’s practice involves residential, commercial and resort real estate transactions, and REO closings. Prior to joining the firm, Buchanan managed the real estate ...