South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Charleston attorneys Malcolm M. Crosland Jr. and David T. Pearlman have been elected to the national board of directors of the Workplace Injury Litigation Group. Both lawyers are partners in The Steinberg Law Firm. The WILG was founded in 1997 ...

Florence attorney D. Laurence McIntosh recently received the Order of Palmetto. He is the chairman of the McLeod Health board of trustees. McIntosh served as the attorney for Florence School District 1 during the desegregation era of the 1960s and ...

Kingstree attorney William E. Jenkinson III has been elected chairman of The Citadel’s board of visitors. Jenkinson is a 1968 graduate of The Citadel and has served on the board since 1992. He was the vice chairman from 1997 to ...

Charleston attorney S. Scott Bluestein has been elected to the board of directors of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute as a port director for the Port of Charleston. The institute is an organization of attorneys who practice admiralty, maritime and ...

Philip Lader, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, was honored last week by two of Great Britain’s leading universities. Lader is currently a partner with the firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, after joining the firm in ...

Morris D. Rosen, a founding partner of the Charleston firm Rosen, Rosen & Hagood, has been named a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Rosen founded the firm in 1947. He is a fellow of the American College of ...

The Greenville County Bar Association has announced its 2002 officers. The new president is Jo Watson Hackl, who is a member of the firm Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham. Hackl is the third woman to serve as president of the ...

Attorneys William B. Regan and Frances I. Cantwell have relocated their firm, Regan & Cantwell, to 105 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 1-A in Charleston. The firm’s practice emphasizes zoning, land use and governmental law. Speaker of the S.C. House of ...

Columbia — A group of South Carolina citizens moved to intervene last week in the lawsuit filed by Gov. Jim Hodges against the U.S. Department of Energy and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. The citizens sought permission to file a ...

U.S. House Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., was the commencement speaker for May graduates of Central Carolina Technical College. A 1969 graduate of Yale Law School, Spratt has represented the 5th District in the U.S. Congress since 1983. From 1971 to ...