Clinic pairs rookies with veterans
For Alex Breazeale, a University of South Carolina Law School set to graduate next year, volunteering with the school’s new Veterans Legal Clinic was a chance to gain real-world experience–in more...
View ArticleLog truck crash prompts $1M settlement
A man who suffered a neck injury that required spinal fusion surgery when a log truck crashed into his car has agreed to a $1 million pre-suit settlement with the trucking company’s insurance...
View ArticleMandatory minimums for juvenile offenders OK’ed
A South Carolina law that imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years’ imprisonment for murder convictions does not violate the U.S. Constitution when applied to defendants who committed their...
View ArticleGolf cart crash results in $2M settlement
A woman who suffered a brain injury and 19 fractures in her face after a landscaper’s steel loader slammed into the golf cart she was riding in with her daughter has reached a $2 million pre-suit...
View ArticleSink’s suit against son stays afloat
The son of a prominent Lowcountry attorney has been enjoined from using his own name to advertise his legal services. A federal judge ordered George Sink Jr. to refrain from using his name to promote...
View ArticleAttorneys detect a role for polygraph tests
It’s certainly no lie that polygraph tests results are persona non grata in courtrooms in South Carolina and most other states. Judges have long been skeptical of the examinations. Larry Hyman Jr., a...
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Police officer’s denial of medical care spurs $550K settlement
A woman whose husband died after Charleston police refused to transport him to a hospital for medical care after an alcohol-related crash has reached a $550,000 settlement with the city and the county...
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Fatal nightclub shooting leads to $1M settlement
The mother of a man killed in a shooting at a Marlboro County nightclub earlier this year has reached a $1 million settlement in a wrongful death action against the club and its owner, her attorneys...
View ArticleWidow of deputy hit by boat while training settles suit for $3.95M
The widow of an Anderson County sheriff’s deputy who was killed in a boat training exercise with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government...
View ArticleFather’s $1 verdicts for false sex abuse allegations upheld
A South Carolina federal judge has denied a request to set aside a verdict in which a jury concluded that two daughters had falsely accused their father of sexually abusing them and awarded the...
View ArticleSink stopper: Son’s motion for stay sunk
An injunction that prevents Lowcountry attorney George Sink Jr. from using his birth name to advertise his new law firm will remain in place after a federal judge reiterated that his father, George...
View ArticleNew highway will be paved with dollar bills
Local commuters call it “Malfunction Junction”: a spaghetti-style network of roads, ramps and flyovers where Interstates 26, 20 and 126 converge north of downtown Columbia, where traffic congestion...
View ArticleWilcox steps down as USC Law dean
University of South Carolina School of Law Dean Robert Wilcox is stepping down at the end of the spring 2020 semester. He will relinquish his role as dean of the law school, but will continue to...
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$9.5M settlement for family of tractor-trailer crash victim
The family of a woman killed in a tractor-trailer crash will receive $9.5 million in a confidential wrongful death settlement, the family’s attorney reports. Cameron “Bozzie” Boggs in Greenville...
View ArticleMurder conviction overturned over prosecutor’s improper comments
A Chesterfield County man who has spent the last 13 years in prison has had his murder conviction overturned after the South Carolina Supreme Court found that the trial prosecutor had made “blatantly...
View ArticleNew law seeks to stave off timeshare tumult
A South Carolina law that took effect earlier this year seeks to prevent an outbreak of holiday home hassles and allow for the orderly dissolution of resort timeshare plans, many of which are slated...
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This old house … this new office
Preston C. Lorick House on Hampton Street in Columbia (Photo/SC Lawyers Weekly) When John Kassel first walked into the 1895 house that currently is home to his Columbia law practice, he was...
View Article$600K settlement reached after man killed in prison
The family of a South Carolina prison inmate who was killed by another inmate has received $600,000 and a public apology from the South Carolina Department of Corrections after the two sides reached...
View ArticleNew rule on overtime pay kicks in Jan. 1
By Patrick Hoff and Renee Sexton phoff@scbiznews.com, rsexton@scbiznews.com Employment law attorneys say they don’t anticipate an influx of complaints after a new U.S. Department of Labor rule...
View ArticleKickbacks lawsuit kicked back for trial
A South Carolina school district has hit a setback in its quest to recoup millions of dollars that were allegedly siphoned off as part of a massive kickback scheme orchestrated by its CFO. The school...
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