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A glimpse of the future at ABA’s TechShow
Special to South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Among the 2,400 attendees of the American Bar Association’s recent TechShow 2014 was Spartanburg family law attorney and self-described “technologist” Ben...
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Justices struggle with software patentability
WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S Supreme Court are facing the difficult task of determining whether computer-implemented software programs that draw on non-computerized principles — a category that...
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Sex harassment suit against SRNS contractor settled
A federal lawsuit that accused a government contractor at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility in Aiken of allowing a known sexual predator to work as a supervisor has been settled in a...
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Lori E. Jolly has joined the Greenville law firm of Devlin & Parkinson as an associate. Jolly will focus her civil litigation practice on medical negligence and other professional liability...
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Smaller support staffs mean firms do more with less
Evolving technology and lessons learned in the wake of the Great Recession have conspired to change the model of law firm staffing. Traditionally, every lawyer at a firm had his own secretary and often...
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Juror’s alleged spite won’t merit new trial
Imagine a remake of “12 Angry Men” where instead of fidelity to the principle of innocent until proven guilty, Henry Fonda’s Juror No. 8 is motivated by spite against the law firm that represented his...
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Plaintiff pays high price for persistence
One very persistent plaintiff who sued her employer four times, raising the same claims even after having litigated and lost them before, will have to cough up over $50,000 in fees and costs after the...
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Losing Battle: A lawyer raises a constitutional argument over the statutory...
One family law attorney called the case “the most severe and freakish thing here in a long time.” Another felt sorry for the lawyer who had to stand in front of the South Carolina Supreme Court and...
View ArticleBar Discipline Roundup: Florida attorney runs afoul of SC Bar
Attorney: Amelia Holt Lorenz Location: Moore Bar membership: Member since 2008 Disciplinary action: Disbarred from the practice of law on April 9 Background: Lorenz conducted a real estate closing for...
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Lawsuit against Ford can go forward, court says
Two South Carolina residents will be allowed to go forward with a proposed class action lawsuit against the Ford Motor Company, a federal judge ruled March 31. The lawsuit is one of several pending...
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Appeals court vacates $919M trade secrets award
A federal appeals court has reversed a $919.9 million trade secrets award in an unpublished decision that bars the judge who tried the case from hearing it on remand. The decision focuses on the...
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Largest Law Firms: Holding Steady
For reasons that may linger — the echoing alarms set off by the Great Recession, the retirements of baby boomers, the migration to the role of in-house counsel — many law firms are learning to operate...
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Keeping an eye on emerging trends helps Nelson Mullins maintain its top spot
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough remained South Carolina’s largest law firm in 2013, with 203 lawyers here, even as it continued to grow significantly outside of the state. Managing partner James...
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Firms broaden scope of diversity efforts to include LGBT issues
Four of the firms on this year’s top 20 largest list voluntarily participated in a national survey that rates their organizational inclusiveness regarding LGBT equality issues, with one charting a...
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-1- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough (1 in 2013) Total number of S.C. attorneys as of Jan. 1: 203 (199 in 2013) Total number of S.C. attorneys as of Jan. 1: Charleston 33; Columbia 120;...
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Supreme Court averts avalanche of FICA refund requests
WASHINGTON — Avoiding what attorneys say could have been an “earthquake” effect from businesses rushing to file for a collective $1 billion in tax refunds, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that...
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Saying Goodbye: As Boomers age, the legal community turns to the task of...
The legal practice is facing a serious problem – and it has nothing to do with the law. As the bulk of the Baby Boomer generation ages, lawyers are struggling with how – and when – to end their...
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Victim of Rock Hill shooting can sue Cash on the Spot, court holds
A woman who was shot twice while trying to collect money at the Cash on the Spot in Rock Hill will be able to sue the company’s owners for negligence after the South Carolina Supreme Court voted to...
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Cafeteria manager can’t sue school board after retiring, rules 4th U.S....
BALTIMORE, MD — A former Frederick Douglass High School cafeteria manager cannot sue after retiring in the midst of an investigation into a $995 shortfall in cafeteria funds. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court...
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Death on the high seas
That maritime law is a different species than its landlubber cousin was again made clear in a recent South Carolina federal judge’s decision to hear a lawsuit over a seaman’s death in the Indian Ocean....
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