South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A South Carolina law that extends attorney-client privilege to communications between a fiduciary and their lawyer applies regardless of whether the person seeking access to the communication is a beneficiary or a co-fiduciary, a federal judge has ruled in ...

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  For more than a decade, the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been dealing with issues stemming from inmates having access to contraband cell phones. Just last month, an inmate convicted of running a drug ring from prison while ...

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  A woman who was burned in a propane cloud explosion at work in 2016 has confidentially settled a negligent installation and maintenance lawsuit for $7.5 million, her attorneys report. Ryan Langley and Charles Hodge of Hodge & Langley Law ...

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  Homelessness is a conspicuous problem in America, but many homeless people try hard to make themselves as invisible as possible. Some of them have mental health or addiction issues. Others are veterans who couldn’t find their place in society ...

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The law is no joking matter. But comedians may have a few lessons that lawyers can learn. Instructors at the comedy industry’s equivalent of the Ivy League certainly think so, and some have developed a healthy side trade teaching their ...

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As representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration testified before members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 24 regarding recent illnesses connected to vaping products, the parallels with another ...

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  Customers in an industrial park on unincorporated land in Laurens County will have a choice of utility providers after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled that one city could not make itself a monopoly provider beyond its borders ...

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  A woman who fell down an elevator shaft while on vacation at a South Carolina beach home has confidentially settled a lawsuit for $1.8 million, her attorney reports. Chris McCool of Joye Law Firm in Charleston reports that his ...

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The parents of a 3-year-old boy who drowned after he entered an apartment complex pool through an unlocked gate has settled a lawsuit against the complex for $6 million, the family’s attorneys report. On May 18, 2018, the toddler was ...

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  A man who suffered a severe brain injury after a pallet of grass sod fell off a trailer and caused a multi-car crash has confidentially settled a lawsuit for $6.05 million, his attorney reports. In 2014, the 68-year-old man ...

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