A magistrate judge in Chester County recently was pulled from the bench by way of a Supreme Court order while she is investigated for possible conflicts of interest. The judge, Angel Underwood, will not be paid during her suspension and ...

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Gonzales v. State (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-046-15, 21 pp.) (Aphrodite Konduros, J.) (Paul Short Jr., J., dissenting) Appealed from Spartanburg County Circuit Court (Roger Couch, J.) S.C. App. Holding: Although trial counsel should have recognized the conflict of interest between ...

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In re Gantt (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-014-15, 6 pp.) (Per Curiam) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Respondent engaged in business transactions with clients; in business transactions between law firm clients and companies in which he and/or his law partner held an ...

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A Lexington County jury awarded a real estate investor more than $1.7 million in damages last month after finding that he was the victim of a property-flipping scheme involving one of his employees and an attorney who handled the transactions. ...

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In re Samaha Respondent (1) charged a fee of $115,000 to marshal the assets for an estate valued at less than $500,000; (2) failed to turn over documents to the attorney appointed to handle the estate of his client's late husband and untruthfully stated he did not know his client's whereabouts...

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State v. Justus There was conflicting evidence as to whether defendant's second-chair counsel had represented a potential state's witness by preparing his separation agreement or whether she was still representing the witness in his divorce action. The trial court did not abuse its discretion by disqualifying and replacing counsel two and a half years before defendant pleaded guilty.

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