On the Hook: Company Owners and Managers At Personal Risk for Unpaid Employee Wages
September 27, 2011David DubberlyNexsen Pruet, LLCAugust 24, 2011 If a company does not timely pay all wages due to an employee,the South Carolina Payment of Wages Act (SCPWA) allows the employee…
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McNair Managing Shareholder David Tigges Named to the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Aquarium
September 19, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – September 19, 2011 – McNair Law Firm todayannounced that the firm’s Managing Shareholder and CEO, David Tigges,has been elected to a three-year term to the Board of…
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Dow Davidson Joins Nelson Mullins in Charleston
September 15, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – September 15, 2011 – Dow A. Davidson has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Charleston office as an associate. Mr. Davidson’s practice focuses on a broad range…
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Ogletree Deakins’ Eric Schweitzer Named to 2012 Best Lawyers List
September 14, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – September 12, 2011 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms representing management, announced today…
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125 Womble Carlyle Attorneys Ranked Among The Best Lawyers in America 2012
September 13, 2011WombleCarlyle placed 125 attorneys on the 2012 Woodward/White Inc.’s The Best Lawyersin America rankings, a new record for the firm. GREENVILLE & CHARLESTON, SC – September 13, 2011 – Thefollowing…
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Twelve MG&C Attorneys Selected for 2012 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America
September 7, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – September 7, 2011 – Twelve attorneys from McAngus Goudelock & Courie have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 edition.…
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12 Charleston Attorneys Named to the 2012 Edition of Best Lawyers®
September 6, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – September 6, 2011 – Nexsen Pruet announced that 12 attorneys based in its Charleston office have been named to the 2012 edition of edition of Best Lawyers®. …
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Collins & Lacy, P.C. Elects Ellen Adams as Managing Partner
September 6, 2011COLUMBIA, SC – September 6, 2011 – Collins & Lacy, P.C. announced Ellen M. Adams has been elected managing partner of the statewide business defense lawfirm. As managing partner, Adams…
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MG&C and BigHand Honored with Speech Technology Magazine’s 2011 Implementation Award
August 23, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – August 25, 2011 – The law firm of McAngus Goudelock & Courie was recognized by Speech Technology magazine for the firm’s implementation of BigHand’s digital dictation workflow…
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McNair Appoints New Shareholders and Special Counsel to the Firm
August 10, 2011HILTON HEAD, SC – August 10, 2011 – McNair Law Firm is pleased toannounce that two attorneys have been elected to Shareholder and twohave been appointed to Special Counsel to…
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McNair Announces New Pawleys Island Office Relocation
August 1, 2011PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC – August 1, 2011 – McNair announced the relocation of their Pawleys Island office on July 29th, 2011. The new office is on Highway 17(Ocean Highway) immediately…
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Richard Wern Lawyers Names Nettie Hill as Torts Paralegal
July 26, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – July 26, 2011 – Richard Wern Lawyers, a personal injury law firm based in Charleston, S.C., has named Nettie C. Hill as a torts paralegal. Hill, who…
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Phillip Florence Inducted Into Citadel Hall of Fame
July 22, 2011COLUMBIA, SC – July 22, 2011 – Turner Padget Graham & Laney,P.A. is pleased to announce that Phillip Florence will be inducted intoThe Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame at The…
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Fowler Elected Chair, Leadership Development Committee, Charleston Regional Development Alliance
July 14, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – July 14, 2011 – Turner PadgetGraham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that Elaine H. Fowlerhas been elected to serve as Chair of the Leadership DevelopmentCommittee…
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C.R. Bard Extends Settlement in Kugel Mesh Litigation
July 6, 2011$184 million negotiated for approximately 2600 cases PROVIDENCE, RI – July 6, 2011 – Motley Rice LLC announces today that C.R. Bard, Inc., parent company to Davol Inc., has negotiated…
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Charleston 9 Firefighters’ Families Reach Final Settlement
July 1, 2011MT. PLEASANT, SC – July 1, 2011 – Motley Rice, along with Knight Law Firm; O’Neill & Phipps; The Richter Firm ; The Solomon Law Group; and Woodley & McGillivary,…
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Motley Rice Helps American Red Cross Get Ready
June 30, 2011Law firm sponsors the American Red Cross Ready When the Time Comes program MT. PLEASANT, SC – June 30, 2011 – Motley Rice is proud to announce it will serve…
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Nexsen Pruet Attorneys and Practice Groups Rated Among Top in the Carolinas
June 14, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – June 14, 2011 – A leading legal directory has ranked Nexsen Pruet attorneys and practices among the best in South Carolina. The newly released 2011 edition of…
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Nelson Mullins' Poliakoff to Address Medicare Issues at PLI Conference
June 11, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – June 9, 2011 – Eli Poliakoff, an attorney in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s Charleston office, will be a featured speaker at Practising Law Institute’s Hot…
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Nexsen Pruet Expands Environmental Practice; Mary Shahid Joins Charleston Office
May 9, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – May 9, 2011 – Nexsen Pruet is pleased to announce Mary D. Shahid has joined Nexsen Pruet’s Environmental, Administrative & Regulatory Law Practice group as a Member. …
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McNair Client Wins Supreme Court Case For Title to Coastal Island
May 5, 2011CHARLESTON – On April 25, 2011, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Environmental Attorneys Mary Shahid and R. Cody Lenhardt Jr. prevailed in a precedent setting dispute against the State of South…
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Senate Confirms Motley Rice Member to U.S. District Court
May 4, 2011Trial lawyer Jack McConnell to serve as District of Rhode Island Judge MT. PLEASANT, SC – May 4, 2011 – Motley Rice member John “Jack” J. McConnell, Jr. has been…
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Collins & Lacy, P.C. announces Amy Neuschafer Joins the Myrtle Beach Office
May 4, 2011MYRTLE BEACH, SC – May 4, 2011 – Collins & Lacy, P.C. is pleasedto announce Amy Neuschafer has joined the firm’s Myrtle Beach office.Neuschafer is an associate practicing primarily in…
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Willis Joins Turner Padget Law Firm
May 4, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – May 2, 2011 – Shawn R. Willis has joined the law firm of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. and is based in the Charleston office. Shawn’s…
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Smith Moore Leatherwood Expands with New Office in Charleston
April 26, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 26, 2011 – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP is expanding its footprint in the Southeast with a new office in Charleston, SC, being led by some of…
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Brad Waring to Serve on National Legal Advisory Committee
April 25, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 25, 2011 – Nexsen Pruet member (partner) Brad Waring has accepted an invitation to join the prestigious National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee. “I am…
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Waring to Serve on National Legal Advisory Committee
April 25, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 25, 2011 – Nexsen Pruet member (partner) Brad Waring has accepted an invitation to join the prestigious National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee. “I am…
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Motley Rice Expands Securities Team’s Capabilities
April 20, 2011MT. PLEASANT, SC – April 20, 2011 – Motley Rice is proud to announce that Adam W. Foulke, Director of Business Analysis, has earned the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credential…
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USC Law School Honors Two Nelson Mullins Partners With Compleat Lawyer Awards
April 18, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 18, 2011 – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Charleston partner Elizabeth Scott Moïse and Columbia partner Thad Westbrook were honored Thursday with the University of South…
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Womble Carlyle Votes To Merge With Charleston’s Buist Moore
April 14, 2011WINSTON SALEM, N.C.—Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLCannounced that its lawyers have voted to merge with the 44-lawyerCharleston, S.C., law firm Buist Moore Smythe McGee, P.A., creating thelargest law firm…
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Turner Padget To Be Recognized as a Leading Litigation Firm in South Carolina
April 13, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 13, 2011 – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that it will be recognized as a leading litigation firm in South Carolina…
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Court Upholds $4 Million Verdict for South Carolina Man
April 12, 2011GREENVILLE, SC – April 11, 2011 – The United States Court ofAppeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict in favor ofRichard Davis, creator of the television series “Flip…
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Bullwinkel and Eames named to Forty under 40
April 7, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 7, 2011 – Nexsen Pruet is pleased to announce that attorneys George Bullwinkel and Stephanie Eames have been named to the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s Forty…
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Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Standout in 2011 Super Lawyers Listings
April 7, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – April 7, 2011 – Sixteen Nexsen Pruet attorneys from Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Myrtle Beach have been listed in the 2011 edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers®.…
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S.C. Super Lawyers List Includes 26 from Nelson Mullins
March 31, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – March 31, 2011 – Twenty-six Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarboroughattorneys have been selected by their peers to the 2011 list of SouthCarolina Super Lawyers in 11 practice…
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Five MG&C Attorneys Named in 2011 S.C. Super Lawyers List
March 31, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – March 31, 2011 – The law firm of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC is pleased to announce that attorneys Rusty Goudelock, Erroll Anne Hodges, Amy Y. Jenkins,…
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Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s attorneys included in South Carolina Super Lawyers®
March 31, 20112011 legal rankings include 22 from law firm CHARLESTON, SC – March 31, 2011 – The law firm of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., is pleased to announce 22 of its…
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Turner Padget Shareholders Named Among South Carolina Super Lawyers
March 30, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – March 30, 2011 – Turner Padget Graham &Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that 11 of the firm’s shareholdershave been named by Super Lawyers magazine as top…
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Motley Rice Major Supporter Of Asbestos Conference
March 28, 2011Proud relationship with Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization ContinuesMT. PLEASANT, SC – March 28, 2011 – Asbestos lawyers from Motley Rice LLC continue to advocate for asbestos victims by once again…
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Anne Ellefson recognized with Lifetime Achievement and Leadership in Law Awards
March 15, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – March 15, 2011 – Anne S. Ellefson, managingdirector of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., received the first “LifetimeAchievement” award from CREW Upstate South Carolina on March 14. Shealso…
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Poliakoff Joins Harvard Alumni Board
March 1, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – March 1, 2011 – Eli Poliakoff, an attorney in the Charleston office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, has been appointed to the Harvard Alumni Association…
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Ogletree Deakins Welcomes Rick Fisher
February 2, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – February 2, 2011 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, is pleased to welcome…
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Cherry to Serve on Advisory Board for SC Supreme Court Commission
February 2, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – Nexsen Pruet is pleased to announce that partner (member) Molly Hughes Cherry has agreed to serve on the Employment and Labor Law Specialization Advisory Board. The board…
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Templeton Joins Council on Litigation Management
January 31, 2011GREENVILLE, SC – January 31, 2011 – Elmore & Wall, P.A., ispleased to announce that Morgan S. Templeton has been invited to jointhe prestigious Council on Litigation Management. The Council…
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Turner Padget’s Shannon Furr Bobertz and Nosizi Ralephata Named as Emerging Legal Leaders in South Carolina
January 28, 2011COLUMBIA, SC – January 28, 2011 – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that two of its attorneys have been named among South Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s…
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Russell Named Chair of Summerville Chamber
January 27, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – William A. Russell III, principal of Jarrard, Nowell & Russell, LLC, a Charleston-based accounting and business advisory firm, has been named chair of the Greater Summerville /…
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Rogers Townsend & Thomas opens Charleston office
January 25, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – January 25, 2011 – Rogers Townsend & Thomas,PC, a law firm with more than 400 attorneys and staff practicing in awide range of areas in Columbia and…
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Motley Rice LLC announces new members
January 19, 2011MT. PLEASANT, SC – December 20, 2010 – Motley Rice LLC has promoted seven attorneys to membership effective January 1, 2011. These new members possess years of experience within a…
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Nelson Mullins' Roumel to Participate in Leadership Academy
January 15, 2011CHARLESTON, SC – January 15, 2011 – Eleni M. Roumel, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Charleston office, has been selected as a 2011 participant in the S.C.…
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Richard Riley To Receive South Carolina Bar Foundation’s Most Distinguished Award
January 12, 2011COLUMBIA, SC – January 12, 2011 – Richard W. Riley, who hasserved notable terms as South Carolina governor and U.S. Secretary ofEducation, will receive the South Carolina Bar Foundation’s 2010…
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