Bar Discipline Roundup: 26 suspensions handed down for CLE non-compliance
Special notice: The following 26 attorneys were administratively suspended on April 23 for failing to file reports showing compliance with continuing legal education requirements, or failing to pay the...
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Appeals court rules specific intent to kill necessary for attempted murder rap
In overturning a North Charleston man’s conviction for attempted murder, the South Carolina Court of Appeals held April 22 that the relatively new South Carolina crime of attempted murder requires the...
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Tough standard for DUI video evidence draws scrutiny from lawmakers
It could soon be curtains for the law that helped ex state Rep. Ted Vick beat a drunk driving rap last year, despite a police officer’s testimony that the lawmaker reeked of booze and was staggering...
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4th Circuit nixes plea deal over judge’s coaxing
RICHMOND, Va. – A trial judge may have been trying to help a defendant who balked at a deal offered by prosecutors, but an appeals court said the judge went too far. On April 28, the 4th U.S. Circuit...
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Letter for the law: York County jail policy riles criminal defense lawyers
Lawyers who want to speak with clients locked up at the York County Detention Center are being asked to send letters declaring that they represent the inmates they’re trying to visit. The jail’s policy...
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Lawyers on the Move, May 2015: More Super Lawyers announced
Richard S. Rosen, a partner with Rosen & Hagood, has been elected to serve as the President of the Charleston chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. Rosen’s practice focuses on business...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE VIDEO – Charleston School of Law: A law school on the brink
A press release announcing the beginning of the end of the Charleston School of Law had been circulating on Twitter for more than an hour, but most, if not all, of the faculty members who had gathered...
View ArticleAlumni marked by sadness over Charleston Law’s fate
After listening to an impassioned speech from the school’s first president, Richard Gershon, Twain Braden moved his family—his wife, four children and a dog—from Maine to South Carolina so he could be...
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Wearables: e-discovery’s new frontier?
BOSTON, Mass. – Attorneys are long accustomed to mining email for evidence. And recordings, text messages and location data from cellphones have increasingly played an important role in both criminal...
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‘Isolated’ comments back hostile environment suit
Employment lawyers may be recalibrating what it takes to get into federal court on a Title VII retaliation claim in the wake of a May 7 decision by a divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals....
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Hostile climate for law schools played major role in CSOL’s woes
Charleston School of Law is on the verge of becoming the first law school to shutter its doors since law school applications began to plummet in 2011, but experts in legal academia say it’s very...
View ArticleBar Discipline Roundup: Columbia, Rock Hill, Greer attorneys suspended
Attorney: Kay Paschal Location: Columbia Bar membership: Member since 1968 Disciplinary action: Suspended from the practice of law for three years on May 13, retroactive to the date of her interim...
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Troubled Charleston School of Law has two mysterious suitors
If the Charleston School of Law folds – a fate that many expect to befall the 12-year-old institution – it will etch out a dubious place in history as the first school accredited by the American Bar...
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Allegations of rampant racism at S.C. steel plant spur 4th Circuit to side...
Being a black steelworker at the Nucor Berkeley plant in South Carolina in the late 1990s and early 2000s must have been miserable. Monkey noises, the songs “Dixie” and “High Cotton,” and various...
View ArticleCSOL to accept first-year students, seven faculty members lose their jobs
The two co-owners of the Charleston School of Law announced more than two weeks ago that they could “not in good faith enroll another class.” Today they changed their minds. Robert Carr and George...
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His brother’s keeper: A Q&A with Tommy Preston
Like many attorneys, Tommy Preston wears a lot of hats. In addition to working as an associate in Nexsen Pruet’s public policy and governmental affairs and economic development groups, Preston is the...
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‘I DIDN’T WANT IT TO ROB ME OF WHO I WAS’
In May, Nick Luft realized a lifelong dream when he graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Now, as his classmates prepare for the bar exam, the 27-year-old Pennsylvania native...
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Charleston School of Law owners reverse course on closure
Charleston School of Law professor Jerry Finkel was solemnly packing up his office on Tuesday morning after the long Memorial Day weekend, which his bosses kicked off by announcing that they were...
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Judge finds fault with police, resigns
It’s not an everyday occurrence when a local judge says he’s giving up his job on the bench because of the police. However, that is what happened in the community of Easley, South Carolina, last month...
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Digital evidence a hot potato in domestic cases
Divorce lawyers, beware. Tech-savvy clients may be arriving at your office bringing a host of ethical—and even criminal—problems wrapped up with their domestic cases. They may be using cell phone...
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