The way services are provided is changing. We can talk to our shrinks via the internet, we can “see” our physicians through a smartphone app, and we can do most of today’s jobs from a laptop in a coffee shop. ...

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You know the old phrase, “The customer is always right.” Unfortunately for a Gastonia woman the phrase did not prove to be true. Bevalente Michette Hall, 37 claimed she ordered a flatizza — or flatbread pizza — at a Subway restaurant, ...

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Every firearm safety rule is a cardinal rule but the one that sums them all up is this: Never point your weapon at anything you don’t intend to kill or destroy. If a group of young people in Anderson County ...

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Being one of the state’s most prominent criminal defense attorneys isn’t going to get you out of answering the call of jury duty.

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The acclaimed television series House of Cards depicts a U.S. Congressman from Gaffney, South Carolina, who rises to become one of the most dominant power brokers in all of Washington. Here in the real world, South Carolina is accumulating an ...

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One of the important critical reasoning skills you should have learned while studying for the LSAT is that correlation does not equal causation. Sometimes it simply equals coincidence. Since lawyers are often in the business of trying to prove that ...

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Maybe some enterprising South Carolina attorney should specialize in defending people who drop trou in public. At least two defendants would have been in the market for their services last week after both were caught with their pants down. One ...

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An attorney in a Utah courtroom may have gone too far in exercising latitude generally allowed when examining a witness. Don Howarth, an attorney for Howarth and Smith and a Harvard law school graduate, was in the process of cross-examining ...

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The S.C. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, known as SCACDL (rhymes with pterodactyl), is refusing to release notes from a February meeting in which its board of governors voted to call for an investigation into the 9th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

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We’re not in the habit of handing out advice to medical professionals, but a recent case reported by our colleagues at Virginia Lawyers Weekly brought two tips to mind. Tip No. 1: Don’t insult anaesthetized patients while performing procedures on ...

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