The South Carolina Bar announced May 3 that David Ross has been hired as the organization’s next executive director. Ross replaces Bob Wells after his recent retirement. Wells served in the executive director role for 33 years. Ross, a longtime ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys from across South Carolina are gathering in Charleston to discuss issues affecting the legal profession. The South Carolina Bar holds its annual convention beginning Thursday and continuing through Sunday. On Friday, the state’s new Chief ...

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Did you know that the fastest growing segment of South Carolina’s population is age 65 and older? The S.C. Bar, S.C. Medical Association and S.C. Coalition for the Care of the Seriously Ill are holding the Aging Gracefully: Preparing for ...

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Two U.S. Supreme Court justices will be attending the S.C. Bar's annual convention next January in Columbia. Leigh Thomas, communications director for the Bar, told Lawyers Weekly that Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer will attend the convention, which is set for Jan. 19-22, 2012. No specifics about their visit were immediately available. In an announcement emailed to members Tuesday, the Bar said it would announce details such as the justices' schedules as the justices' offices make them public.

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Get ready to channel your inner Daniel Boone or Annie Oakley. There's still time to sign up for two South Carolina Bar-sponsored courses that will teach attorneys the ins and outs of gun law - and allow them to spend their afternoons firing weapons to qualify for concealed-weapons permits. Incorporating target practice is a newfangled twist on the average firearms CLE, which is offered by bars in several states. But "the South really likes their guns," said Doug Kim, an intellectual property attorney who is helping coordinate the May 6 CLE in Greenville.

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An effort by the S.C. Bar to reach out to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in the wake of an election season that jarred the image of lawyers surfaced as members met in Hilton Head Island for their annual convention. In a Jan. 21 videotaped speech to the House of Delegates, Bar President Carl Solomon (pictured) praised Haley for appointing lawyers to her cabinet and said he had written her a letter congratulating her on the appointments. "She sought out attorneys to handle very difficult issues in difficult situations," Solomon said of the governor.

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Disclosing economic interests on a form may be a turnoff for some lawyers contemplating a run for statewide office, but at least two who ran said the form was the least of their worries. Bigger deterrents to seeking office are the time and effort devoted to campaigning, the loss of earnings and the chance of political mudslinging, said a lawyer who ran for attorney general in 2010. "Running for office is really, really tough, and you're asking someone to take a professional sacrifice, a pay sacrifice, and it's tough to get people from big law firms to do it," said Leighton Lord (pictured).

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  By FRED HORLBECK, Senior Staff Writer fred.horlbeck@sc.lawyersweekly.com   For years Bar leaders have touted the benefits of having more lawyers in the legislature, saying more were needed to vet new laws and support funding for Rule 608 indigent appointments ...

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When he took office at the end of May, South Carolina Bar President Carl Solomon pledged to hit "the streets" as an advocate for better judicial funding. Now, six months later, he's on the road, traveling across the state to have frank conversations with lawyers about the funding crisis and other concerns they have about the state of the profession.

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