South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Dec 16, 2024

Plan now to grow your firm and yourself in ’25

By Jay Sullivan Some legal practice areas slow down at year-end, and some grow busier. There isn’t a typical “busy season” for the law. What never slows down is the […]

Nov 11, 2024

Phishing attack targets SC lawyers

State and federal courts are sounding an alarm about phishing attempts using an email that purports to be from the federal court system. A warning on the website for the […]

Sep 23, 2024

Email marketing boosts demand generation

By Guy Alvarez For law firms looking to supercharge their demand-generation efforts, email marketing remains a powerful tool in the digital arsenal. Whether built around an informative newsletter or legal […]

Mar 26, 2024

Opinion Digest: Coach awarded $200K; court splits on defamation definition

A public high school football coach is not a public official, as they have no influence on government issues of importance, the Supreme Court of South Carolina decided in a reversal that secures a former coach $200,000 in damages for defamation.

Sep 29, 2020

Passive-aggressive email phrases you are probably using

By Chere B. Estrin You might have noticed some of your bosses and colleagues and friends getting somewhat, well, downright testy during this coronavirus time. No wonder! Huge changes, disruption […]

Mar 21, 2019

Opened emails protected by federal privacy law

Previously opened emails are considered to be in “electronic storage” and can, therefore, be the basis for claim under the federal Stored Communications Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of […]

Feb 27, 2019

Attorney’s email started clock for malpractice lawsuit

A legal malpractice suit against two Charleston attorneys has been dismissed because the statute of limitations started ticking from the moment that one of the lawyers clicked ‘send’ on […]

Mar 6, 2018

Baseball coach cut after uncorking wild email

When Sidebar was a practicing attorney long ago, he was fond of telling clients they should “Never ever write anything in an email that you wouldn’t want to hear read […]

Jul 13, 2016

Chief justice finger-wags lawmakers

Firing off a sharply worded email can be cathartic, especially when people take note. And when you’re at the helm of your state’s highest court, people tend to pay attention […]

Feb 3, 2016

Civil Rights – Feres Doctrine Bars Officer’s Email Claim

Aikens v. Ingram (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-020-16, 23 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 14-2419, Jan. 29, 2016; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A National Guard colonel cannot […]

Sep 2, 2015

You’ve got mail—and you’re now on notice, COA says

Amid the sea of unnecessary reply-all’s and trivial rejoinders flooding your email inbox, there may be something very important indeed—the signal that commences the 30-day window in which to serve […]

Mar 31, 2015

Clinton also used iPad for email; mixed personal, work chats

Hillary Rodham Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.