South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

It’s been about a year since South Carolina was featured in a worst-of list—or at least since we saw such a list—but it’s happened yet again. This time the Palmetto State has the dubious distinction of being one of the ...

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Recently, in an effort to combat contraband, the South Carolina Department of Corrections supplemented its undermanned workforce by sprinkling the perimeters of some of its prisons with state guardsmen. The volunteers added eyes and ears to an agency desperate to ...

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For many college students, a study abroad program is a dream opportunity, but one University of South Carolina alumna has filed a lawsuit alleging that a professor subjected her to nightmarish mistreatment during a trip to Italy. Allison Dunavant says ...

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DotSucks has been stirring things up since at least 2015, when Fortune magazine called it “the most controversial domain name on the internet.” Back then, the company behind www.get.sucks, Vox Populi Registry Ltd., was making headlines for selling .sucks website ...

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With all the controversy and tragedy surrounding the South Carolina Department of Corrections recently, it’s about time a little bit of lighthearted news escape its communications office. So, cue the passionate melodies and sexual jingles because the most recent report ...

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  A jailhouse lawyer, this Sidebar reporter has heard of. But a jailhouse doctor, well, that’s a new one. Mackie Walker, a former podiatrist, might not be the only physician in the federal prison system, but he’s the newest. Walker, ...

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Putting your offices on the penthouse floor of a high-rise tower is a clear signal that your business is riding high figuratively as well as literally. But a new study suggests that while such heights might give you commanding views ...

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Rumors of drunken depravity have been bubbling up in the aftermath of the Charleston School of Law’s recent Barrister’s Ball at the South Carolina Aquarium. Talk of tanked students urinating in the otter tank during the ball — along with ...

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Not all slipper stories have fairy tale endings, especially those involving accelerant-sniffing police dogs. And Paula Rose is no Cinderella, according to prosecutors. They alleged that she lied about burglars setting fire to her house as part of an insurance ...

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Erskine College, a private college in Abbeville County, will not have to pay out on certificates it issued granting free tuition at the school—certificates that were issued in 1854, before the start of the Civil War. The South Carolina Court ...

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