South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Attorneys in South Carolina will have to pay more for official transcripts after the state’s Supreme Court approved an amendment to its Appellate Court Rules that bumped up court reporter transcription fees across the state. Notable among the transcription fee ...

For today’s generation of aspiring law students, a career in the law is less about making a buck, and more about making an impact, a new study suggests. According to a survey conducted by Gallup for the Association of American ...

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  An esteemed criminal defense attorney once told Lawyers Weekly that some of the best work he’s done for clients has been on the front end of investigations, preventing arrests from happening in the first place. Joe Cheshire of Raleigh, ...

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  Evidence of a defendant’s attempted suicide is admissible as evidence of guilt, the state Supreme Court has ruled, but only under certain, very limited, circumstances. In 2011, the South Carolina Court of Appeals held in State v. Orozco that ...

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A South Carolina worker who claims he was fired for asking whether his company had shortchanged him out of a bonus he was due can sue his former employer for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, a federal judge ...

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A racial epithet can satisfy the elements of a hostile work environment claim and is sufficient under the motion-to-dismiss standard, even if it’s allegedly used as a colloquial greeting, a federal judge has ruled. In Young v. Columbia Farms, Inc., ...

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As globalization intensifies, the business world gets smaller and smaller every day. An unintended result of local businesses buying and selling in international markets, or international businesses setting up shop in South Carolina, has been that the attorneys and law ...

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  The South Carolina judiciary’s Access to Justice Commission is considering amendments to various court rules which would standardize and clarify the procedures around limited scope representation. If submitted to and adopted by the state’s Supreme Court, the changes would ...

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  A Barnwell couple’s insurance company will not have to pay for the damage caused after their mentally ill son intentionally set their house on fire, a federal judge has ruled. David and Kathy Taylor argued that the phrase “intent ...

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While South Carolinians survey the damage that Hurricane Florence wrought on homes and businesses across the region, there’s another storm they must brace for: the inevitable wave of fraud and identity theft that trails natural disasters.

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