An esteemed criminal defense attorney once told Lawyers Weekly that some of the best work he’s done for clients has been on the front end of investigations, preventing arrests from happening in the first place. Joe Cheshire of Raleigh, ...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jeb Bush follows Donald Trump on Twitter but that’s a one-way street: Trump mainly follows people with a connection to himself. Ted Cruz’s follow list is a big tea party, though he keeps an eye on President ...

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The seemingly inevitable has finally come to pass. Todd Kincannon, the South Carolina attorney who sunk to national infamy as one of Twitter’s most provocative internet trolls, has been placed on indefinite suspension by the South Carolina Supreme Court. (See ...

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Grammar fails on @Twitter r OK. No 1 cares & ppl don’t judge.They’re actually a gr8 way 2 get ur point across in 140 characters or less. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on the other ...

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CINCINNATI (AP) — A 20-year-old Ohio man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials. Christopher Lee ...

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Todd Kincannon, the South Carolina bar’s most infamous Twitter troll, is back on social media and has resumed making egregiously offensive online comments. This time it was fellow South Carolinian Stephen Colbert welcoming Kincannon back to the national spotlight. During ...

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A South Carolina attorney who frequently places himself at the center of national controversy with his inflammatory social media posts is suing the state’s Commission on Lawyer Conduct and Office of Disciplinary Counsel, claiming that the organizations are trying to ...

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A former Charleston school student who used the N-word in a Twitter message has refused to write a 500-word punishment essay ordered by the county school board.

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Reading Daniel Vorhaus’ Twitter feed is a bit like downing an espresso: It makes you feel smarter, fast. The biotech industry newsletter FierceBiotech (fiercebiotech.com) recently ranked Vorhaus 11th on its list of the “top 50 voices in the biotech Twittersphere.” He was the only lawyer on its list.

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If you’re a South Carolina attorney looking for someone to follow on Twitter, our first recommendation would be one (or all) of South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s fine stable of reporters. But a next suggestion might be @SCBarrister, an anonymous attorney known for his hatred of meetings, associates and opposing counsel, and his love of bourbon, sarcasm and firing people.

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