South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  The way Alan Hancock sees it, seismic testing off the South Carolina coast threatens the Lowcountry’s way of life. Hancock, the energy and climate advocacy director at the Coastal Conservation League, says the testing, which could eventually lead to ...

Tagged with: offshore drilling

Grave robbing has been a tempting crime for millennia—the victim is in no shape to defend himself, and would seem to have no further use for worldly possessions. Egyptian pyramids were specifically engineered to guard against it, but modern-day thieves ...

Tagged with: identity theft

The family of an inmate who was killed by two other inmates in a South Carolina prison has received $275,000 in a mediated wrongful death settlement, the family’s attorneys report. Mark Peper and Marvin Pendarvis of the Peper Law Firm ...

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While some might see technology as a prison that chains people to their work 24/7, Jim Lehman, managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, sees it more of a liberator rather than handcuffs, allowing attorneys to have ...

Tagged with: work-life balance

  The family of a 75-year-old woman who died as a result of “horrific” facial and chest injuries suffered in a crash with a logging truck has reached an $875,000 settlement in a wrongful death and survival action, the family’s ...

Tagged with: wrongful death

BY DAVID DONOVAN and RENEE SEXTON There are some obvious risks to admitting that you know where a dead body is buried, but a Dorchester County man who says that he never gave his informed consent before his attorney divulged ...

Tagged with: Murder

More money for court reporters, a reform of business license taxes, possible new hate crimes legislation, and a long sought-after increase of the cap on damages under South Carolina’s Tort Claims Act are all on the agenda as the state ...

Tagged with: Legislature

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  It would not be much of a stretch, the family’s attorney said, to call it a Christmas miracle. Just before the holiday, a family whose home had been foreclosed upon over a mere $250 in unpaid homeowners’ association dues ...

Tagged with: Foreclosure HOA

  A manufacturing plant mechanic who lost his fingers after a machine crushed and burned his hand has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the machine’s manufacturer for $1,000,000, his attorneys report. Douglas Jennings of Yarborough Applegate in Charleston said his ...

Tagged with: Product Liability