South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorney Rita M. McKinney has rejoined the McNair Law Firm’s Greenville office after serving as the director of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Wayne Corley, managing shareholder of the firm, said in a press release, “We are ...

The South Carolina Women Lawyers Association has named its slate of officers for 2003. They include: * Mary E. Sharp, president. Sharp is a 1990 graduate of North Carolina State University and a 1993 graduate of the Wake Forest University ...

S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal was recently named one of Government Technology magazine’s “Top 25” for 2002. Each year the magazine spotlights 25 individuals “who played key roles in strengthening government operations in their jurisdictions and improving ...

Attorney L. Franklin Elmore of the Greenville office of Elmore & Wall, P.A. has been appointed Chairman of Division 10 of the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on the Construction Industry. The ABA’s Forum on the Construction Industry is the ...

Rock Hill attorneys Leland B. Greeley, W. Blackmon Huckabee and Horace A. Jones Jr. recently combined their practices to form the firm Greeley, Huckabee & Jones. The lawyers had referred clients to each other for years, and eventually decided to ...

COLUMBIA — The Senate Judiciary Committee on March 11 approved a bill that would tighten the state’s drunken driving standards. Under the bill, the legal blood-alcohol limit for drunken driving convictions would be lowered from the current 0.10 percent to ...

Charleston attorney Susan Rosen has been named co-chair of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s Committee on Ethical Conduct. In that role, she will oversee and administer disciplinary procedures involving ATLA members. Rosen practices with the firm Rosen, Rosen ...

SUMTER — Joan Brown has spent most of her law career helping people who couldn’t afford to pay attorneys. Brown, the former executive director of the state Legal Aid Telephone Intake Service, returned to private practice last fall and is ...

Greenville attorney Jennifer E. Johnsen has been elected president of the Greenville County Bar Association for 2003. Johnsen is a shareholder in the firm Gallivan, White & Boyd. She has held several leadership positions with the Greenville County Bar Association, ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Education and former Governor of South Carolina Richard W. Riley honored attorney Terry E. Richardson Jr. on Feb. 18 with the first-annual Governor and Mrs. Richard W. Riley Award for Excellence in Dropout Prevention for a ...