South Carolina’s largest law firm has grown a bit more with the completion of a merger with Florida-based firm Broad and Cassel on Aug. 1. The new firm will be known as Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel in Florida, while ...

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Sarah Buffett once told our sister publication, The Mecklenburg Times, that she fought the Department of Homeland Security for a living. “But I don’t always win,” Buffett, 41, said in the 2012 interview. Well she now finds herself in another ...

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Access to justice, sentencing reform and the role of the legal community in the immigration crisis are a few of the issues William C. Hubbard is taking on as the 2014-15 president of the American Bar Association. He says the ...

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Four of the firms on this year’s top 20 largest list voluntarily participated in a national survey that rates their organizational inclusiveness regarding LGBT equality issues, with one charting a perfect score. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2014 Corporate Equality ...

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough remained South Carolina’s largest law firm in 2013, with 203 lawyers here, even as it continued to grow significantly outside of the state. Managing partner James Lehman said the firm is still guided by the vision of ...

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For reasons that may linger — the echoing alarms set off by the Great Recession, the retirements of baby boomers, the migration to the role of in-house counsel — many law firms are learning to operate with fewer lawyers. According ...

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Columbia attorney and former mayoral candidate Steve Morrison has died at age 64.

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The chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said she will leave the agency and join a South Carolina law firm in December, after more than four years leading the panel.

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Claude Scarborough, a longtime partner with South Carolina's largest law firm, died Saturday at his Columbia home, firm officials said Monday. He was 82.

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