Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XIV, Don’t engage in misleading advertising
May 11, 2011
As someone who has an expansive web site and blog devoted, in part, to marketing my family law practice, I am highly interested in Supreme
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XVIII, Don’t Cut Corners on the Notary Rules
December 11, 2010
It’s pretty hard to be a litigator in South Carolina without also being a notary. There’s affidavits and other documents that are required to be
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XVII, Anything Can Lead to Discipline but the Supreme Court is Not Your Adversary
June 14, 2010
This is the final ethics lesson I wish to impart to my mentees, though I intend to add to this series in the future as
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XVI, Not Reporting Substantial Misconduct
Thomas McDow made the excellent suggestion that I do a column on the Rule 8.3 duty to report professional misconduct. It was a failure on
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XV, Using Purloined Evidence
June 13, 2010
Had I been a member of the South Carolina Supreme Court in June 2008, I would have voted for In Re Wood, 378 S.C. 632, 663
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XIV, Don’t Steal From Your Trust Account
June 12, 2010
How much money is in your trust account? Would you sell your law license for it? Theft of client or third-party funds from one’s trust
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XIII, Keep Track of Your Trust Account
Every South Carolina attorney or law firm that will be handling client or third-party funds is required to have a an IOLTA account (Interest on
Ethics Opinions Every South Carolina Attorney Should Know: Part XII, Letting Your Paralegal Practice Law
June 11, 2010
It took mere months of legal practice for me to determine that the time I spent managing a paralegal was taking away from time I
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