South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The consensus was clear: South Carolina needs more women and African-Americans on the bench. But the question of how to get them there remained open for debate as the S.C. League of Women Voters wrapped up an Oct. 8 conference ...

Supreme Court says Right to Cure Act no bar to Rule 23 litigation

It happens to e-mail users every day. Open inbox. View first message. It’s spam. Delete. Been there, done that? If you’re a South Carolina law firm considering using e-mail to self-market, it’s time to pay attention. Launching an e-mail marketing ...

A man injured when two vehicles collided in downtown Charleston won a $1.9 million verdict for actual damages after a trial that doubled as baptism by fire for his lawyer. Michael J. Jordan of the Charleston-based Steinberg Law Firm said ...

Five more law firms in the Lowcountry have been targets of a counterfeit check scam that has already bilked one firm out of almost $400,000, according to the U.S. Secret Service in Charleston. After a story about two law firms ...

A Columbia lawyer and longtime legal advocate for children is throwing his hat into the ring as a litigator raring to represent kids in products liability cases. It’s a new area for Jay Elliott, and one, according to an Atlanta ...

In the first year of operating his firm, Jerry Finkel made a $70,000 mistake. The North Charleston attorney didn’t jeopardize a case or behave irresponsibly. It was much simpler than that. He just didn’t know how to bill his clients ...

If you build it, they will come. In the movies, that means baseball players walking out of an Iowa cornfield to play on an immaculate baseball diamond. In the S.C. Business Court, it means devotion to expediting resolution of disputes ...

The South Carolina judiciary’s budget crisis might not exactly move the state legislature to tears. But it’s getting attention at the highest levels of the American Bar Association. ABA President Stephen N. Zack, who was Columbia last week for the ...

Hundreds of young lawyers from around the world will converge on Charleston next week for the annual congress of a global association that’s meeting in South Carolina for the first time. Members of the International Association of Young Lawyers, holding ...