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Supreme Court: Being a lawyer doesn’t mean you’re an expert
A lawyer-turned-ophthalmologist who has become a regular fixture in South Carolina’s appellate courts will not be able to bring a malpractice claim against her former attorneys, the state’s Supreme...
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No basis for award of attorneys’ fees, court says
A York County father will not be on the hook for $5,000 in attorneys’ fees after the South Carolina Court of Appeals overturned the circuit court’s award on June 4. Attorneys for the father called the...
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Lawyers on the move
Turner Padget Graham & Laney announced that Marshall Tinsley has joined the firm’s business transactions practice group in its Columbia office. Nickels Johnny Warren and Cameron Stoll joined the...
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Working it out
Back in the 1990s a group of bar leaders in Greenville County started talking about a place where low-income litigants could mediate their disputes without having to pay high-priced private mediators....
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Defense bar urges caution after U.S. Supreme Court ‘straw buyer’ ruling
WASHINGTON — This week’s ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a man who bought a firearm on behalf of another qualified buyer violated a federal law barring “straw purchases” of guns may be...
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SC DOC program aims to help offenders ages 17 to 25 with melding of...
Officials are happy with the preliminary results of a state Department of Corrections program aimed at keeping young, adult offenders out of the prison system, though it’s too soon to gauge its...
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South Carolinians will be hanging up a lot more now that a federal judge has lifted a state ban on political robocalls, but free speech attorneys say the court made the right decision. When U.S....
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State-run residential facility sued over death of disabled patient
A wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Florence County alleges that employees of a state-run residential care facility killed a 21-year-old disabled woman whose death has been ruled a homicide....
View ArticleBar Discipline Roundup: Anderson attorney given retroactive suspension
Attorney: Kristie Ann McAuley Location: Anderson Bar membership: Member since 2008 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for 18 months on June 18, retroactive to August 24, 2011, the...
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Lawyers on the move
McNair Family Law recently celebrated its opening in Summerville. The firm was founded by Carolyn McNair, who formerly practiced with the Parise Law Firm in Columbia. Thurmond Kirchner Timbes &...
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Business Court expansion on track, officials say
david.donovan@sclawyersweekly.com There may have been almost a year-long lull in published opinions coming out of the South Carolina Business Court—a lull that ended with two opinions published online...
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Every new beginning is some other beginning’s end
Every week, our staff gets a steady stream of emails about attorneys starting their own firms, or joining existing ones to create new practices. These are happy occasions that we enjoy sharing, but...
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Nursing home residency agreements subject to arbitration act
Based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the state’s Supreme Court recently overruled one of its prior decisions and held that nursing home residency agreements do, in fact, implicate interstate commerce...
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Suit against drunk driver, two bars settles for $1M
Tiawan Eurie was heading to work about the same time that Steven Keavney walked away from a Summerville bar called Shooters and got behind the wheel of his car, according to a lawsuit that recently...
View ArticleBar Discipline Roundup: Richland Co. lawyer put on interim suspension
Attorney: Kathleen Devereaux Cauthen Location: Blythewood Bar membership: Member since 1999 Disciplinary action: Suspended until further notice on June 27 Background: The Supreme Court suspended...
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Experiential education gaining ground in legal ed circles
Most attorneys recall law school as a blur of long hours spent reading cases and what seemed like even longer classes spent waiting for professors to ask questions about the reading, all accompanied by...
View ArticleMost Important Opinions First Half of 2014
Administrative DUI – Driver’s License Revocation – Evidence – Breathalyzer Test South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles v. Brown (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-005-14, 16 pp.) (Jean Hoefer Toal, Ch.J.)...
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S.C. attorneys negotiate $125 M settlement for Virgin Islands
Attorneys for a South Carolina law firm have negotiated settlements, estimated to total between $125 million and $145 million, on behalf of the U.S. Virgin Islands as compensation for contamination...
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Morton & Gettys announced that John Mark Shiflet has joined the firm as an associate. Shiflet will base his practice out of the firm’s York office and will focus primarily on the areas of criminal...
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Bible verse may have tainted jury, court rules
A death row inmate is entitled to a hearing to determine whether his sentencing was prejudiced by a juror whose father referred her to a Bible passage about taking “an eye for an eye,” the 4th U.S....
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