Legal Aid paralegals find their passion in helping people
AT A GLANCE A phalanx of paralegals helps ensure that legal aid agencies’ cases come together. Some of the paralegals plan to come into the field; others arrive by chance. In addition to their work...
View ArticleAward-winning essay launches Erin Acaley’s career
AT A GLANCE Erin Acaley wanted a career where she could help people, but her undergraduate degree was in a field other than the law. She entered the paralegal program at the University of North...
View ArticleLong before anti-bias laws, hate speech drew thousands
AT A GLANCE Thousands of supporters and large numbers of protesters gathered Feb. 20, 1939, at Madison Square Garden in New York City when the German American Bund held the “Pro-American Rally.” The...
View ArticleCourtroom plea: Try, don’t settle, civil cases
AT A GLANCE In 2020, the American Bar Association Commission on the American Jury published “Reasons for the Disappearing Jury Trial: Perspectives from Attorneys and Judges,” a four-year study based...
View ArticleSerial offender sentenced in child pornography case
AT A GLANCE David Elliott Paulsen, 62, of Columbia, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and lifetime court supervision Friday. He pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse materials....
View ArticleDrug, gun guilty pleas net long federal prison sentence
CHARLESTON — Guilty pleas to narcotics possession and firearms possession are sending a Charleston man to federal prison for 10 years. Darrell Troy Capers, 33, of Charleston, was sentenced after...
View ArticleHigh court to hear arguments at Coker University
AT A GLANCE The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments May 1-2 at Coker University. Each session will begin at 10 a.m. at the university’s Watson Theater, 300 E. College Ave.,...
View ArticleRetired Colleton County official tapped as clerk of court
AT A GLANCE Patricia C. Grant has been appointed Colleton County Clerk of Court, taking the place of Rebecca Hill, who resigned in March. The appointment was made by Gov. Henry McMaster. Grant held...
View ArticleNewman takes position with Atlanta firm
AT A GLANCE Judge Clifton B. Newman presided over the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh. Newman served 23 years as a Circuit Court judge and more than 16 years as an assistant solicitor for...
View ArticleUSC Law grads drawn back to campus — but not for hoops
AT A GLANCE Two 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges graduated from the University of South Carolina’s law school. They are Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., Class of 1989 and Judge William B....
View ArticleState charges prison visitor after contraband found
A visitor to Lieber Correctional Institution faces a drug charge and other counts after an attempt was made to deliver marijuana and other contraband to a state prison. Lynetta McCloud Mitchell, 60, of...
View ArticleOff-duty officer charged with murder in shooting
AT A GLANCE Anthony DeLustro, 64, has been charged with murder in the shooting of Michael O’Neal, 39. The men had fought March 20 at the parking lot of a Chick-fil-A in Summerville, state invetigators...
View ArticleFederal prosecutors send man to prison in wife’s interstate death
AT A GLANCE Lawrence Joseph Florentine, 56, was sentenced for interstate domestic violence resulting in the death of his wife, Nicole Zahnd Florentine, use of a firearm during a crime of violence,...
View ArticleCorrections captain indicted in bribery-cellphones case
AT A GLANCE Christine Mary Livingston, 46, was indicted earlier this month on 15 charges, including bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering. Livingston was the South Carolina Department...
View ArticleSlaying-related arrest made by SLED agents
AT A GLANCE The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating an October 2018 slaying in Ridge Spring. James Patrick Kinard, 39, was shot to death at the Hazzard Circle area of the town....
View ArticleAttempt to escape shooting ends in fatal fall
AT A GLANCE A man fell to his death at oceanfront hotel trying to escape a sixth-floor shooting, Myrtle Beach police say. No one else was injured in the gunfire early Sunday. The man ran out onto the...
View ArticleGOP denies Democrat Smith’s bid for Circuit Court bench
Editor’s note: A list of judges elected by the General Assembly is at the end of this report. From wire, submitted reports COLUMBIA — Republicans in the South Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday...
View ArticleVIDEO: Rice wades all the way into his cases
AT A GLANCE Joe Rice has built a reputation as the lawyer behind some of the larger civil cases in the United States. One of his governing legal principles is “go big and be bold.” Joe Rice has led...
View ArticleVIDEO: Paralegals’ role, authority could be poised to grow
AT A GLANCE Some states have broadened the authority of paralegals, allowing them to handle limited functions that traditionally have been considered the practice of law. Neither the legislatures nor...
View ArticleVIDEO: 5 Questions with … Joseph F. Rice
AT A GLANCE Joe Rice is the lawyer behind many benchmark legal settlements in the United States in the last 35 years. Looking ahead, he is a co-lead in the national firefighting foam multidistrict...
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