South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jamie Ackermann has joined the Greenville firm of Gallivan, White & Boyd as an of counsel attorney. Ackermann’s primary practice areas include design and construction; business litigation; banking; bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. He received a J.D. from DePaul University School ...

Wallace K. Lightsey, a member of the Wyche Law Firm, has become a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. The induction ceremony at which Lightsey became a fellow took place during the recent 2004 spring meeting of the ...

Attorney Eugene Hamilton Matthews has joined Richardson, Plowden, Carpenter & Robinson, P.A. as special counsel to lead the firm’s employment law practice group. RPC&R’s employment law practice group is expanding to better address the wide array of commercial, corporate and ...

The nation’s leading conservation education and advocacy group has honored Greenville attorney C. Thomas “Tommy” Wyche with its National Conservation Achievement Award for exemplary leadership in protecting the environment and natural resources, according to a press release. Wyche received the ...

Philip Lader, a Charleston partner with the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, has been elected to the board of Lloyd’s of London, the 300-year-old global insurance market. “I am honored to be associated with the institution ...

As the nation grows, so do the number of developments required to sustain the population, but does the government have the right to demand fees or donations of property from developers and property owners in exchange for developing the land? ...

The South Carolina Women Lawyers Association recently announced its officers for 2004: * President Kathryn M. Cook is a partner in the law firm of Cook & Roy, LLC in North Myrtle Beach. She practices in the areas of civil, ...

Briefly . . . Columbia attorney Catherine Kennedy of the firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, has been certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in estate planning and probate law. A certified civil court mediator ...

Columbia attorney Steve A. Matthews was elected managing director of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A at the firm’s annual shareholders’ meeting Feb. 20 in Charleston. Matthews previously was co-managing director of the firm, sharing the responsibilities for the past three years ...

Attorney D. Randle “Randy” Moody II joined the Greenville-based law firm of Roe Cassidy Coates & Price, P.A. on Jan. 1. A native of Alabama, Moody received his juris doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1997, ...