Charleston School of Law and Drexel University’s Earle Mack School of Law are celebrating the news that they have earned full accreditation from the American Bar Association.
A South Carolina lawyer sentenced last year to three years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a colleague used a postdated check in the endeavor,…
A South Carolina attorney has been publicly reprimanded by the state supreme court for overselling his small firm’s experience and expertise by exaggerating and making statements that could not be…
A federal appeals court has upheld a default judgment against two Southern gun stores accused of having “New Yorkers’ blood on their hands,” but ruled the injunctions issued against them…
Representing clients in “an emotional and heated domestic dispute” apparently pushed three South Carolina lawyers into a dispute of their own that has now resulted in a general “letter of…
The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct and held that double jeopardy precludes retrial of a man who undisputedly shot and killed his…
Columbia, S.C., lawyer William Gary White III fired off a letter when the town manager of Atlantic Beach, S.C., wrote the lawyer’s church client about the need for zoning compliance.
For South Carolina attorneys who seek to arm themselves against the potential vicissitudes of law practice but lack the practical training to feel confident about doing so safely, their bar…
Attorney Bobby Pearlman was handing what seemed like a somewhat routine probate matter in Charleston, S.C., until his client’s brother was arrested for allegedly trying to put a contract hit…
Adding another gig to the list of jobs forbidden to moonlighting jurists, a South Carolina ethics panel has ruled that a newly elected probate judge who happens to be a…
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