South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Once upon a time, the proclivity of male attorneys to make aggressive sexual advances against female clients was so pervasive that it garnered a name—the “fee couch,” implying that cash was not the only currency that such lawyers were ...

Tagged with: Sexual Harassment

The Lean Law Firm. Larry Port and Dave Maxfield. American Bar Association. 230 pages. $79.95 “The Lean Law Firm,” a new book co-authored by Columbia attorney Dave Maxfield (along with Larry Port, the CEO of Rocket Matter, a case management ...

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  While prosecutors continue to control the criminal docket in most parts of the state, Charleston County has been testing a new system that gives the chief administrative judge more power over calendaring cases for trial. The experiment has been ...

Tagged with: docket control

When the American Bar Association amended its Model Rules of Professional Conduct in 2012 to include a provision that lawyers should keep themselves abreast of the latest technology, it was only a matter of time before that change would be ...

Tagged with: Technology

The rising cost of legal services, relative to average incomes, is forcing the profession to confront an alarming affordability crisis—more and more Americans who don’t qualify for traditional legal aid programs are nevertheless finding it impossible to afford legal assistance ...

Tagged with: Pro Bono

  For some lawyers, especially those in far-flung rural areas, driving to the nearest courthouse to have the clerk issue a subpoena in a criminal case can be a time-consuming hassle. But the process might be about to get a ...

Tagged with: subpoena

A federal inmate seeking habeas corpus relief now will have his petition considered on its merits. The en banc 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2011 decision, finding a retroactive change in the law rendered the man’s sentence ...

Tagged with: 4th Circuit

In the corporate world, “pierce” and “veil” are words you don’t want to hear. The whole point of forming a corporation is to avoid individual liability. And so having a judge lift a corporation’s veil of protections to hold the ...

Tagged with: 4th District

At long last, Nila Carter is going to have her day in court. Unanimously finding that Carter, a mother seeking to revoke her consent to the adoption of her two children, timely filed a Rule 60(b) motion and sufficiently alleged ...

Tagged with: adoption

A South Carolina House panel voted March 21 against expanding the regulation of agricultural water use in the state. The bill, proposed by Reps. James Smith, D-Richland, and Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, failed to pass the House Committee on Agriculture, Natural ...

Tagged with: agriculture Environmental Law lawsuit Legislation Surface Water Withdrawal Act