The What’s New column summarizes recent developments in the law. Click on the areas below to review summaries of cases (since July 25, 2011) in your area of practice and link to the full opinion.

The words "Supreme Court" refer to the state Supreme Court, and citations prefaced by "Code" or "the Code" or "Section" refer to the South Carolina Code Annotated, except when used with other qualifying words.

Summaries were prepared by Rebecca Cyrus, a third year student at USC School of Law, and have been reviewed by Jill Rothstein, Risk Management Director for the S.C. Bar.

Member discipline
Click here to view a list of member discipline actions, reinstatements and resignations, since July 2011.