South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A land dispute between a Charleston County man and his late domestic partner’s daughter presented a fact pattern fit for a property law exam question—real “who owns Blackacre?” type stuff. And it presented a novel question for South Carolina’s Court ...

Tagged with: right of survivorship

A man who suffered a crushed hand after falling in front of a work truck has accepted a $1 million settlement, his attorneys report.   Stephen Samuels and Jason Reynolds of Columbia report that their client, Charlie Buckberry, and a coworker were working for ...

Tagged with: Negligence

The heirs of legendary singer James Brown have reached a “global settlement” ending the legal wrangling over the estate of the Godfather of Soul, the law firm representing the personal representative of Brown’s estate and trustee of his irrevocable trust and Brown’s ...

Tagged with: James Brown Estate

  Prosecutors can’t rely on the doctrine of transferred intent to prove attempted murder if a defendant lacks the specific intent to commit murder, a divided South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled.  In a July 14 opinion, the appeals court reversed the conviction of a ...

Tagged with: Attempted Murder

  A 74-year-old man who was injured in a vehicle crash has settled his lawsuit for $4.4 million, his attorneys report.  Paul Hammack and Jamie Ackermann of the Hammack Law Firm in Greenville represented the man, a Marine Corps veteran whose name was ...

Tagged with: motor vehicle crash

  The University of South Carolina School of Law has taken its show on the road, using a new, custom-made bus to haul students and volunteer attorneys to remote areas to deliver desperately needed legal services to underserved populations.   The Palmetto LEADER ...

Tagged with: trial advocacy

A Richland County jury has awarded more than $13.1 million to a man who was badly injured in a fatal car accident caused by a defective highway repaving project.  Five students at Claflin University were traveling along Interstate 77 in ...

Tagged with: Roadway Defect

  Since his 1987 bar admission, Jon Ozmint has just about done it all. His duties have taken him from South Carolina to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and back. Ozmint spent more than 30 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, the U.S. Navy, and the ...

Tagged with: Judge Jon Ozmint

  The estate of a woman killed during a shootout at a Timmonsville nightclub has settled its lawsuit for $1 million, her attorneys report.   Brian Mickelsen and Danny Dalton of Mount Pleasant report that in the early hours of Feb. ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

The mother of a mentally ill man who died in the Charleston County jail has reached a $10 million settlement with the county, the county sheriff’s office, and the city of North Charleston, her attorneys report.  “From everything we’ve researched, ...

Tagged with: Prison