South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

COLUMBIA — Senators consigned a bill calling for gubernatorial appointments of attorneys general and education superintendents to the junk pile last week. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted not to take the legislation up again this year, meaning the bill will ...

COLUMBIA — Teachers would choose whether to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms under a bill that cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The bill lets school boards adopt policies that allow teachers to make the decision to ...

Hartsville attorney Richard Edward Conner Jr. has received a master of laws in taxation from Villanova University’s law school in Pennsylvania. Conner holds a law degree and a master’s in public policy from Regent University in Virginia. Randy E. Fisher ...

Spartanburg attorney R. E. Browne III has been named a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Browne practices with the firm Butler Means Evins & Browne. The American Bar Foundation is the preeminent research center for the empirical study ...

Attorney George A. Finnan has joined the firm Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard as a member in its Charleston office. Finnan has nearly 30 years of experience in business immigration law and, since 1995, has been the only Charleston attorney ...

An Old Issue In Need Of A New Look

Greenville attorney Ellison F. McCoy has become a member of the firm Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson & Greaves. McCoy concentrates his practice on employment law issues. Third Circuit Judge Thomas W. Cooper Jr. and Solicitor Ferrell Cothran hosted an eighth-grade class’ ...

After Sept. 11, people are looking to the courts for justice and comfort more than ever, South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Toal told legislators March 6. One court was near ground zero after the attacks on New York’s World Trade ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in the shallows and in miseries. And we must take the current when ...

The Collins & Lacy Law Firm has named three new shareholders in the firm. They are: Rebecca M. Monroy, Joseph S. McCue and Peter H. Dworjanyn. The firm is located in Columbia. The Greenville-based law firm Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & ...