South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Distinguished past members of the South Carolina Bar were memorialized at the annual Memory Hold the Door ceremony Oct. 19 at the University of South Carolina School of Law. This year’s honorees were James C. Anders of Columbia, Ralph Bailey ...

Attorney William “Al” Pollard, a member of Nexsen Pruet in Columbia, has been inducted into the Heritage Society of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals. The society, established in 2003, recognizes individuals who have given generously of their time, talent and ...

Attorneys Shawn E. Allen and Reid T. Sherard have joined the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. Allen will practice in the firm’s Myrtle Beach office and Sherard will work out of Greenville. Allen’s areas of practice include ...

Employers routinely ask employees to sign general releases of potential claims in exchange for severance packages or to resolve employment-related disputes. However, a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which has jurisdiction over North ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on July 18, 2005, that an employer’s general statement of non-discrimination in its employee handbook is not sufficient to create a contract between the employer and an employee. The case was Hessenthaler v. Tri-County ...

Employers are now required to prove that employee drug tests comply with specific drug-testing procedures before the Employment Security Commission will disqualify a terminated employee from receiving unemployment benefits. Under a 2005 amendment to S.C. Code Sect. 41-35-120(2), an insured ...

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC announced late last month that the firm has selected nine law students to receive scholarships from the 2005-2006 Womble Carlyle Scholars Program. The program will provide nine $4,000 scholarships annually to minority, second-year law ...

Attorney Kurt M. Rozelsky, a shareholder at the firm of Leatherwood Walker Todd & Mann, P.C., has been selected as vice chairman of the American Bar Association commercial transportation litigation committee for 2005-2006. The committee examines the liabilities and obligations ...

Myrtle Beach lawyer Franklin G. Daniels has been selected to serve as general counsel and senior vice president for Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc. Daniels will be responsible for all of Burroughs & Chapin’s corporate legal work and related activities, ...

A number of South Carolina attorneys and paralegals who serve as reserve soldiers in the 12th Legal Support Organization were presented awards during a unit assembly last month. The awards recognized the reserve soldiers’ efforts in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation ...