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With law degree’s luster dimmed, a look at how data supports our new view of...
The news concerning the job prospects of law school graduates has been relentlessly downbeat, filled with horror stories suggesting that grads at some schools are more likely to get jobs as store...
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Unpaid interns can cost employers who break labor department rules
DETROIT — Summertime has arrived with all of its accompaniments: warmer weather, longer days and interns. Many employers rely on unpaid interns for summer help without realizing how employment law...
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Car crash victim gets $1.5 million in pre-suit mediation
A 68-year-old woman will get a $1.5 million settlement for injuries sustained in a rear-end car accident—in notoriously tightfisted Lexington County. The identities of all parties to the suit were kept...
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Second helping
Court will consider evidence in ERISA case that was not included in administrative record Over the protests of Progress Energy and its employee group insurance administrator, a federal judge in South...
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EEOC puts focus on severance agreements
For most employers, employee severance agreements are essential tools for ensuring that the end of an employment relationship doesn’t lead to litigation. But a recent lawsuit brought by the Equal...
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Rules of the game change when defending sports stars
The suggestion that Aaron Hernandez will be treated the same as any other defendant charged with murder strains credulity, say lawyers who have represented sports figures accused of crimes like the one...
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Black-lung cases worth a fee premium, court rules
A federal appeals court has awarded more than $32,000 in fees to a law firm that represented a former coal miner in his successful bid to be compensated for the black-lung disease he had contracted...
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Help Wanted: Legal experience not necessarily a virtue
The tumultuous tales of two lawyers selected to fill high-level public positions in the Carolinas show that legal chops may not count for much when an attorney is named as executive in charge of a...
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State border can’t help woman duck alienation award
In an explicitly narrow decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s courts must enforce a six-figure judgment against a Greenville County resident for sleeping with another...
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Judge tosses EEOC suit over background checks
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland has dealt a stinging blow to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s attempt to cast the use of pre-employment background checks as a discriminatory...
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Misplaced breathing tube prompts $2.3M settlement
The cover-up, they say, is often worse than the underlying offense. In a medical malpractice case, it can also be more expensive. On July 24, Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill agreed to pay a $2.3...
View ArticleSLED changes its story on server malfunction
By PHILLIP BANTZ phillip.bantz@sclawyersweekly.com Turns out that lighting was not to blame for knocking out a S.C. Law Enforcement Division computer server holding hundreds of thousands of...
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Changes to psychiatric association diagnostic manual will impact litigation
RICHMOND, VA — Changes in the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual are likely to have an impact in the courtroom. The fifth iteration of the Diagnostic and...
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Award stands despite claim of arbiter’s ‘partiality’
An arbitration award in favor of a construction company will stand even though the arbiter learned—long after the hearing—that key witnesses were co-workers of his law partner’s brother. The underlying...
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Limits to sex offender monitoring remain in flux
The S.C. Supreme Court has issued three different opinions in a constitutional challenge to the state’s satellite monitoring requirement for certain sex offenders, but the matter appears to be far from...
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Cellphone search cases move closer to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon address an issue it has carefully avoided until now: Just how much privacy do Americans enjoy in the information contained within and emanating from their cellphones?...
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Court refines jury instructions on circumstantial evidence
A Charleston County man won’t be offered a second chance to tell a jury the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence. Clarence Logan was convicted of criminal sexual misconduct after he...
View ArticleBankruptcy filings fewest in years
The surge in bankruptcy work that had fueled some practices during the Great Recession has fallen off, but many attorneys are hopeful that growth in transactional areas will help level the landscape....
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Robin Thicke copyright dispute plays a familiar tune
BOSTON — Earlier this month, multi-platinum-selling pop singer Robin Thicke and his production team sued the family of the late, legendary Marvin Gaye “in the face of multiple adverse claims” —...
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After DOMA, legal quagmire awaits same-sex couples
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year striking down part of a statute barring the recognition of same-sex marriage under federal law has created confusion as same-sex couples begin applying...
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