How South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Reports on Major South Carolina Legal Cases

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly covers major state legal cases through four recurring formats: news stories on high-profile litigation, a Verdicts & Settlements section, opinion digests summarizing court rulings, and a daily newsletter that bundles updates. If you need to track a specific case or see how courts are trending, these formats let you follow both the narrative and the underlying rulings.

News coverage of high-profile cases

The site reports on cases that draw statewide attention, including criminal defense disputes and civil litigation. Recent coverage includes:

• Alex Murdaugh's defense team claiming the S.C. Attorney General's Office withheld evidence — a filing that "rattled the South Carolina court index this week," according to the site.
• Statewide inmate sexual assault class actions, where individual issues barred the cases from proceeding as a class.
• A punitive damages cap upheld despite reckless nursing home neglect.
• A Supreme Court ruling that could weaken Black voting power across the South.

These stories focus on the legal arguments, procedural developments, and what each ruling means for the parties and the broader bar.

Verdicts & Settlements

This section reports case outcomes with enough detail to see what was awarded and why. Examples from the site include:

For attorneys, this is where you check comparable verdicts and settlement values rather than just reading the news narrative.

Opinion digests

The site publishes digests of appellate rulings that summarize the holding and the court's reasoning. Recent digests cover:

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — constitutional issues (race-related instruction in public schools, standing), criminal practice (Sixth Amendment self-representation, Brady materiality), and deliberate indifference claims involving prison staff.
• South Carolina Court of Appeals — trusts and estates (constructive trust, implied promise), administrative law (Lottery Commission, FOIA), taxation (interest on lawyer trust accounts, admissions tax), and unpublished decisions on appellate jurisdiction.

Each digest condenses a full opinion into the key facts, issue, and ruling, so you can decide whether to pull the full text.

Daily updates via newsletter

The SCLW Daily Record Newsletter delivers a daily digest of South Carolina legal news. Signing up requires agreeing to the site's Privacy Policy. This is the most efficient way to catch new verdicts, opinions, and breaking case developments without checking the site manually.

What this means for tracking a case

If you're following a major case, the site gives you three layers: the news story for context and reaction, the verdict or settlement entry for the outcome, and the opinion digest for the legal reasoning. For ongoing matters like the Murdaugh case, the news format is where procedural disputes surface first. For appellate trends, the digests are the faster read.

Subscription details, including what paid access includes beyond the free newsletter, are available on the site's Subscribe page.