South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A former Legal Services attorney has received a two-year definite suspension for looking through the e-mails of her co-workers. Julia Ellis Brown, who once worked at the South Carolina Centers for Equal Justice, accessed the password-protected e-mails of as many ...

An auto insurance policy did not cover a Dalzell woman who was accidentally shot dead when her husband tried to remove two guns from the pickup she was sitting in, the Supreme Court has ruled in response to a certified ...

A forum-selection clause did not apply to a lawsuit against a finance company for allegedly leasing out illegal telemarketing equipment, the Supreme Court has ruled. In a first-impression decision handed down March 13, the high court said the plaintiffs’ claims ...

Purchasers of mobile homes with allegedly defective tie-down anchors could not recover on their breach-of-warranty and fraudulent-concealment claims, the Supreme Court has ruled in an apparent first-impression decision. In a 4-1 opinion, the high court upheld summary judgment for the ...

The owner of a Colleton County shopping center — which settled a $500,000 negligence claim over a wreck in its parking lot — could not seek contribution from the construction company that built the lot, the Supreme Court has ruled. ...

Even though a Berkeley County DUI suspect neither read nor signed an implied consent form, his license could still be suspended because the arresting officer read the form to him, the Court of Appeals has ruled in an unpublished opinion. ...

The widow of a Greenville comp claimant was not entitled to the remainder of her husband’s disability benefits after he died due to an unrelated illness, the Supreme Court has ruled. The reason: by statute, disability benefits are inheritable only ...

Large firms are upping the ante with higher salaries for new associates

Even Though Wife's 1973 Union Was Declared Void Ab Initio, Order Didn't Validate Later Bigamous Marriage

The owner of a Beaufort hotel that suffered water damage due to allegedly shoddy construction could go to trial on its claim that the contractor’s CGL policy covered the damage, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. At issue was ...