A federal appeals court has underscored its insistence that attorneys’ fee awards take into account just how far short of the target a plaintiff’s arrow falls. Judges must compare the amount of damages sought to the amount awarded, the 4th ...

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A Lexington attorney who filed a collection action against a client in circuit court didn’t waive her right to have the state bar settle a dispute over the underlying fee, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Lisa Moore ...

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It’s not every day that you see a judge support a legal conclusion by citing Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” but one South Carolina Court of Appeals judge was unusually pointed in his language—sharper than a serpent’s tooth, one might say—while affirming ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court has raised some of the filing fees in the appellate courts for the first time in decades. The filing fees for filing a notice of appeal and for filing a petition for a writ of ...

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  A former Greenville attorney will be able to move ahead with his lawsuit against a Minnesota law firm alleging that the firm interfered with his ability to collect fees he was owed from a case that settled years after ...

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The IRS has been ordered to pay more than $61,000 in attorneys’ fees to a disbarred South Carolina lawyer who operates a tax advisory firm that caters to American expats. “They gave us every dime we asked for,” said James ...

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Two South Carolina agencies have spent nearly 15 years and millions of dollars fighting a disabled woman’s request for social services. So far, the agencies have lost three times at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and once at ...

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Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. v. Manna Pro Products, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-114-17, 27 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 0:16-cv-01255; D.S.C. Holding: When intellectual property lawyers litigate contempt proceedings, they are entitled to recover at the rate of general litigation attorneys, ...

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South Carolina Public Interest Foundation v. Courson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-033-17, 6 pp.) (Thomas Huff, J.) Appealed from Richland County Circuit Court (G. Thomas Cooper Jr., J.) S.C. App. Holding: Plaintiffs were successful in having certain legislation (Act 17) declared ...

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In re Estate of Kay (Sullivan v. Brown) (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-094-16, 18 pp.) (H. Bruce Williams, J.) (John Few, A.J.) Appealed from Laurens County (Donald Hocker, Probate Court Judge & Frank Addy Jr., Circuit Court Judge) Substituted opinion. S.C. ...

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