Conway-area attorney dies
Conway-area attorney Lynn Stevens died April 7 at the age of 58. Ms. Stevens died after a prolonged illness. She was a graduate of Coastal Carolina University and the University of South Carolina School of Law. After graduation, she returned to her hometown of Conway, where she lived the rest of her life. In 1984, […]
McNair responds to malpractice suit
The McNair Law Firm has responded to a legal malpractice lawsuit alleging that a real estate attorney at the firm tricked five elderly sisters into losing beachfront land that had been in their family since the 1920s.
McNair Law Firm, shareholder sued for legal malpractice
The third-largest law firm in the state and one of its attorney shareholders are being sued for legal malpractice. The suit alleges that Bob Deeb, a real estate lawyer at the McNair Law Firm’s office in Hilton Head, conspired with a land developer to dispossess five elderly black sisters of beachfront land that had been […]
SC firm part of multimillion dollar RICO settlement
Columbia’s McNair Law Firm announced on Wednesday that one of its clients was among the plaintiff class that recently settled claims for $297 million related to a RICO class-action suit against Amsterdam-based Ahold USA. The client, Thomas & King, the nation’s 19th-largest restaurant franchise company, was involved in a multidistrict suit stemming from Ahold USA’s […]
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Clawson and Staubes said Amanda L. Callander has joined the firm’s Charleston office, where she will work in the commercial and corporate law section. McNair Law Firm said Dan Butler and Michael Weaver have been named shareholders in the firm. Butler works in the Myrtle Beach office, while Weaver is in Columbia. Also, Cody Lenhardt, […]
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