The South Carolina Bar is looking for pro bono attorney volunteers to participate in a Free Legal Answers Blitz, taking place Nov. 16 from 2 to 5 p.m at the State Bar building at 950 Taylor St. in Columbia. The ...

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For today’s generation of aspiring law students, a career in the law is less about making a buck, and more about making an impact, a new study suggests. According to a survey conducted by Gallup for the Association of American ...

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Here’s a surprise from last Tuesday’s voting: A political newcomer, Kambrell Garvin, knocked off a 10-year veteran of the South Carolina House, Rep. Joe McEachern, D-Richland County, for the Democratic nomination. Here’s another surprise: Garvin is a law student at ...

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Professor Eboni Nelson has been named the new University of South Carolina School of Law associate dean for academic affairs. She will begin her new duties on June 18, replacing Jaclyn Cherry who will return to teaching. “We are delighted ...

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The University of South Carolina and Charleston law schools combined for a 37.3 percent pass rate on the most recent bar exam, each continuing its recent February slide. Forty-three USC grads sat for the exam; 18 passed. The 41.86 percent ...

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The University of South Carolina School of Law named nine alumni to be recipients of the 2018 Compleat Lawyer Awards. The awards are given out annually to recognize the professional and civic accomplishments of the school’s alumni, and are given ...

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With a growing number of law schools accepting the Graduate Record Exam in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test, surely there is an easy way for admissions committees to equate GRE scores with LSAT scores. According to the Educational ...

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In November, Wake Forest University School of Law became the first law school in the Carolinas to accept the Graduate Record Exam in lieu of the Law School Admissions Test to evaluate prospective students. So far, no others have shown ...

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Both of South Carolina’s law schools posted lower pass rates for February’s bar exam than they did last year, and graduates of out-of-state institutions stole the show in the Palmetto State’s first administration of the Uniform Bar Exam. Since the ...

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As it types this, Sidebar—along with about 30 reporters who cover various aspects of the legal system—is spending the first of two days at the University of South Carolina School of Law’s Media Law School. Before lunch today, it learned ...

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