University of South Carolina School of Law Dean Robert Wilcox is stepping down at the end of the spring 2020 semester. He will relinquish his role as dean of the law school, but will continue to teach classes.  Wilcox ...

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  For Alex Breazeale, a University of South Carolina Law School set to graduate next year, volunteering with the school’s new Veterans Legal Clinic was a chance to gain real-world experience–in more than one sense of the term. “When they’re ...

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  Graduation day was no doubt exhilarating for the hundreds of law school graduates in South Carolina who collected their J.D.’s this month, and just as much so for the law schools proudly sending them off into the world. The ...

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  Malissa Burnette was proud to see her daughter, Grant, graduate from law school this spring — almost as proud as she was when Grant met Sarah Leverette. Leverette, a legal pioneer and Columbia community fixture, died Aug. 29. She ...

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There weren’t many jobs available when Sarah Leverette entered the legal profession in South Carolina in 1943. More specifically, there weren’t many jobs available to her, a woman. “My comment on that has always been I knew the door was ...

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