A law firm’s failure to meet a discovery deadline during its representation of an insurance company’s customer didn’t significantly affect the case’s settlement outcome, a South Carolina federal jury has ruled, in the first federal jury trial held in ...

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  An insurance company can bring a malpractice action against an attorney it hired to represent an insured, a divided South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. While some are applauding the decision of first impression, others are concerned that it ...

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Lawyers throughout the state should be following a lawsuit that is unfolding in Richland County and centers on a professional liability carrier’s duty to defend the attorneys they insure against legal malpractice claims. The dispute between West Columbia attorney Desa ...

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South Carolina’s Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments next month in a legal malpractice case that should pique the interest of lawyers throughout the state, especially those who work with insurance companies. Confronting the high court in Select Sentry ...

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Two South Carolina lawyers are trading barbs with a New York attorney over his hourly fee agreement with an elderly Greenville County couple in a case that ultimately was dismissed for being time-barred – leaving the clients with a $5 ...

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Stokes-Craven Holding Corp. v. Robinson (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-045-16, 19 pp.) (Donald Beatty, J.) (Costa Pleicones, C.J., concurring) On petition for rehearing. Appealed from Clarendon County Circuit Court (George C. James, Jr., J.) S.C. S. Ct. Holding:  This legal malpractice ...

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Lighthouse Group, LLC v. Strauss (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-040-16, 12 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 9:15-cv-02463; D.S.C. Holding: Where plaintiffs’ breach of contract claim arises solely out of defendants’ alleged failure to comply with the standard of care and involves the ...

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Stokes-Craven Holding Corp. v. Robinson (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-108-15, 18 pp.) (Donald Beatty, J.) (Jean Hoefer Toal, C.J., joined by John Kittredge, J., dissenting) Appealed from Clarendon County Circuit Court (George James Jr., J.) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: The court ...

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Rogers v. Lee (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-088-15, 12 pp.) (Thomas Huff, J.) (John Few, C.J., concurring) Appealed from Spartanburg County Circuit Court (Frank Addy Jr., J.) S.C. App. Holding: The plaintiff’s ward and the defendant-attorney are both South Carolina residents. ...

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Real estate attorneys can hand someone else the work involved in performing a title search, but they can’t hand off the liability if the search turns out to be faulty, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court decided ...

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