South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

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 ...

Young lawyers are swapping their legal briefs for magic wands this month to make dreams come true for promgoers in the Richland One school district. The South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division is sponsoring the second annual Cinderella Project to ...

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 & ...

Myrtle Beach attorney O. Fayrell Furr Jr. was elected treasurer of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association at its annual convention in New Orleans, La. Furr practices with the firm Furr, Henshaw & Ohanesian. The firm Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard ...

Attorneys Ingrid Blackwelder Erwin and E. Grantland Burns have become members of the firm Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard. Both Erwin and Burns were partners at the Greenville firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart before joining Nexsen Pruet. They ...

The firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has named five new partners at its Columbia office. They include: * Melissa J. Copeland, an attorney with the firm for eight years, focuses her practice on product liability, business litigation, administrative law ...

Attorney Trudy Hartzog Robertson has been elected as a member of the firm Moore & Van Allen. She practices in the firm’s Charleston office and concentrates on healthcare and litigation. Irmo attorney Ashleigh “Smokey” Brown Jr. has opened the Law ...

H. Simmons Tate Jr., a shareholder in the law firm of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., has been named as the 22nd recipient of the DuRant Award. The S.C.Bar Foundation board of directors conferred the honor on Tate at the Bar’s ...