Should “vile” blogging be a basis for lawyer discipline?
January 9, 2013
A news release posted yesterday on the South Carolina Judicial Department website links to a cover story in the ABA Journal, “You’re Out of Order!
July 30, 2012
Today the South Carolina Supreme Court adopted amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct to address the charging of advance fees by lawyers. Given recent
A lawyer again for twenty-one days
June 29, 2012
Earlier this month a South Carolina attorney was reinstated to the practice of law after being suspended for six months. Exactly three weeks later he
Tips for drafting a response to your first grievance
March 30, 2012
An attorney I am informally mentoring just received her first letter from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (OCD). As everyone in family law knows, grievances
February 16, 2012
So far in the month of February, 2012 the South Carolina Supreme Court has issued six decisions, five of which were attorney disciplinary opinions. While
Supreme Court tells family court attorneys: don’t have sexual relations with your clients
February 1, 2012
While I’ve never considered it a gray area whether it was permissible for attorneys to have sexual relations with their domestic clients (except when representing
December 19, 2011
Having read today’s Supreme Court opinion, In the Matter of Michael T. Hursey, Jr., 395 S.C. 527, 719 S.E.2d 670 (2011), I would like to kick Mr. Hursey’s behind
The Citadel sexual abuse cover up(s)
December 3, 2011
I find myself in an awkward position in which my friend, Charleston Post & Courier reporter Glenn Smith, is investigating and writing about a colleague
