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Justices revisit securities fraud class actions
WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an opportunity to dramatically change the landscape of securities fraud class action litigation by limiting, or perhaps overruling altogether, a...
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Defendants score wins in personal jurisdiction rulings
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has handed civil defendants a pair of victories in cases that raise the issue of when a party can be sued in federal court in a state far from home. But some...
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Former AG’s brother was ‘grossly intoxicated’ during gun incident
Recently suspended Columbia lawyer Frank McMaster, the brother of a former South Carolina attorney general, was “grossly intoxicated” when he was arrested for firing guns behind his house during a...
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‘Scareware’ executive liable for FTC damages, 4th Circuit rules
Companies that engage in deceptive internet advertising practices—and their high-level executives—can be ordered to pay monetary damages to the Federal Trade Commission, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Why your MBA may cost more than it used to
LONG ISLAND, NY — Your MBA may have just got a little more expensive, even if tuition’s exactly the same. Although a Masters in Business Administration is a popular means of growing income and...
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Robin Hood of Divorce
Mary-Louise Ramsdale, a prominent family law attorney in Mount Pleasant, was fighting for a woman in the midst of a highly contentious and equally complicated divorce case involving significant marital...
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Take Google+ a step further to increase traffic, build business
A little over a year ago, I wrote about the plusses of Google+, but also observed that it didn’t seem like many lawyers had embraced the platform for marketing. Not long afterward, Google launched...
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How to make travel hacking work for you, at play and at work
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Ralph Liberatoscioli has a busy year planned. The Mineola resident, by day a Manhattan accountant, is taking four trips in 2014, covering vast swaths of the globe: Maui in March,...
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The keys to content marketing
Journalists often live by the mantra, “content is king.” The idea is that the more information you can share with your audience, the more connections you make and trust you build. The same applies to...
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Treating wisdom like widgets in tax proposal
Earning more than $10 million a year sounds like a great thing for a Carolinas law firm. So does expanding the staff, taking on a high-earning new partner, signing up a new client, or investing in new...
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Violation draws more scrutiny to 9th Circuit Solicitor’s Office
Talk about bad timing. Eleven days after 9th Circuit Chief Deputy Solicitor Scarlett Wilson wrote a strongly worded statement defending her office against allegations of pervasive misconduct, one of...
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Arbitration not automatic under AHCCA agreements
A woman who checked her sister into a Florence nursing home had the legal authority to sign a contract that would make her financially liable for the care she received—but didn’t have the authority to...
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USC might eat crow in Gamecock ticket dispute
College basketball fans usually direct their ire at officials on the playing floor, not administrators of their own school. But some South Carolina Gamecocks boosters disgruntled with the school’s...
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Muddying the waters on Ineffective Assistance
A South Carolina appellate court has ruled for the first time that a defense attorney’s decision to keep jurors from considering a lesser included criminal charge against his client is a valid trial...
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SC Court of Appeals: Relying on bad title search doesn’t equal malpractice
An attorney cannot be held liable for malpractice as a matter of law simply because he relied on another attorney’s faulty title search, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. The appeals court...
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Dean: Job, student-faculty numbers likely boosted USC ranking
It is awaited with great anticipation each March. The colleges are ranked, sorted and pitted against each other in competition, with potential recruits following the action closely. No, it’s not the...
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Ruling on ‘joint obligations’ provision a first in SC
A “joint obligations” provision in an Aiken County couple’s insurance policy means the insurer will not have to defend the parents in a negligence suit brought by a woman whose daughter was sexually...
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Justices ponder if inherited IRAs get bankruptcy shield
WASHINGTON — In a case that turns on the definition of two words in the expansive language of the Bankruptcy Code, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to determine whether an inherited...
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EEOC ordered to pick up employer’s tab
An employer won attorney’s fees from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when the agency’s investigation dragged on for six years before it filed its losing lawsuit. Before the agency filed...
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S.C. court finds jurisdiction over Miss. attorneys
South Carolina residents who were plaintiffs in a multi-district asbestos litigation will be able continue their malpractice lawsuits against two Mississippi lawyers who represented them. U.S. District...
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