South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has been selected to co-chair the National Association of Attorneys General’s environmental, public health & safety committee. “In South Carolina, our office is committed to protecting the state’s unique natural heritage, prosecuting those who ...

Attorney John G. “Jay” Brown II has joined real estate law firm of Buist, Byars, Pearce & Taylor, LLC as partner. Brown will run the firm’s soon-to-open North Charleston office where he will concentrate his practice primarily on residential and ...

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 ...

Six attorneys at Leatherwood Walker Todd & Mann, P.C. have been selected for inclusion in the 2006 edition of “Best Lawyers in America.” The Leatherwood attorneys receiving the distinction include: * William L. Dennis (employee benefits law, trusts and estates). ...

Attorney Richard T. Martin has joined the law firm of Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC. He will direct quality assurance efforts for the firm’s default services section. Martin has over 20 years of technical and management experience in the mortgage ...

South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, The Order of the Palmetto, was awarded last month to Dalton B. Floyd Jr. for his service to the state and nation. An attorney practicing in Surfside Beach and a resident of Murrells Inlet, Floyd ...