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Nelson Mullins merger with Broad and Cassel complete
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 retaining the name Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough elsewhere. The combined firm will have 750 […]
Baked on a plane
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 battle with the agency, and she’s losing. And losing badly. After allegedly causing a mid-air […]
A full roster for ABA president
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 role is keeping him busy. A partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, […]
Firms broaden scope of diversity efforts to include LGBT issues
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 Index Survey included ratings for Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice; [&[...]
Keeping an eye on emerging trends helps Nelson Mullins maintain its top spot
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 the late Claude Scarborough Jr., who joined the firm in 1955. His idea was that […]
Largest Law Firms: Holding Steady
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 to South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s 2014 survey of the state’s 20 largest law firms, half […]
Columbia attorney Steve Morrison dies at 64
Columbia attorney and former mayoral candidate Steve Morrison has died at age 64.
National consumer protection chief to join Nelson Mullins
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.
Veteran SC lawyer Claude Scarborough dies at 82
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.
Business Law
- Economy forces attorneys to get down to business
- Business Court judges trawl for customers
- Va. company's Web site did not subject business to personal jurisdiction in S.C., appeals panel rules
- Former running back from S.C. wins courtroom victory in contract dispute
- Contract – Government Contract – Qui Tam – False Claims Act
- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
- Consumer Protection – FCRA – Auto Loan – Bank Accounting Errors
- Licenses & Permits – Beer & Wine Permit – Restrictive Covenant – Suitable Location
- Licenses & Permits – Veterinarian – Vaccine Maintenance
- State regulators look at car dealer accused of lying to customers
- Textile firm, railroad settle Graniteville train wreck lawsuit
- Subprime mortgage meltdown hits securities law
Commentary
- High court justices cross the line of propriety
- High court’s term was rough on big business
- The flip side of generative AI in law and how to address it
- The fight for equal educational opportunity continues
- Letter From The Editor – Working from Home
- NLRB joins FTC in taking aim at non-competes
- Supreme Court leaves key internet protection untouched
- US Supreme Court bites back at parody’s use of the First Amendment
- My goal: Provide the information that you need now
- Case study: North Carolina courts provide guidance on scope, limitations of attorney-client privilege
- A Different Ode to Pro Bono Work
- N.C. Bar Association embraces homophobia
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