What Is South Carolina Lawyers Weekly?

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South Carolina Lawyers Weekly (sclawyersweekly.com) is a legal news publication covering South Carolina courts, verdicts, and the state's legal community. It serves South Carolina lawyers and legal professionals who need daily court opinions, case outcomes, and practice-related news in one place. If you practice law in South Carolina or follow its courts closely, it is built for you; if you need national coverage or another state's courts, it is not the primary source.

What the site covers

The publication describes itself as offering "legal news, daily court opinions, verdicts and settlements, and hard-to-find resources for the South Carolina Lawyers Weekly legal community." In practice, that breaks into several recurring content types:

  • Court opinions and digests — summarized rulings from courts including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the South Carolina Court of Appeals, and unpublished opinions, organized by topic such as constitutional law, criminal practice, trusts and estates, administrative law, and taxation.
  • Verdicts & Settlements — reports on case results, such as a prison lifer found liable in a 2009 rape and murder, a Five Points bar settling a fatal dram shop case, and a jury award in a faulty transmission case.
  • Top stories — daily legal news, for example coverage of the Alex Murdaugh defense team's evidence-withholding claims and Attorney General Wilson's announcement of victims' services grants.
  • Practice-focused sections — Legal Tech, Opinion, The Power List (including nominations such as an Employment Law Power List), and contributor content.

Who it is for

The core audience is South Carolina attorneys and legal professionals. The content assumes familiarity with legal procedure and court structure — opinion digests are written for readers who need the holding and its practical effect, not a general-audience explainer. Adjacent readers include paralegals, law students, in-house counsel tracking South Carolina matters, and journalists covering the state's courts.

How to access it

The site offers a daily newsletter — the "SCLW Daily Record Newsletter," described as a daily digest of South Carolina daily news, with sign-up subject to the site's Privacy Policy. There is also a Subscribe option at sclawyersweekly.com/subscribe. The available site information does not state pricing or whether any content is free versus subscriber-only, so check the subscribe page directly for current terms before assuming access.

When it is the right resource — and when it is not

Use it when you need Look elsewhere when you need
South Carolina court opinions and digests Primary source text of a full opinion (use the court's own docket)
Verdict and settlement trends in SC National verdict databases
Daily SC legal news and community updates General state news unrelated to law
A daily email digest of SC legal news Real-time docket alerts

A practical example: if you are preparing for a South Carolina case involving a dram shop claim, the Verdicts & Settlements section can show you how comparable cases resolved, while the opinion digests help you find appellate treatment of the same issue. For the underlying filings, you would still go to the court record.

Bottom line

South Carolina Lawyers Weekly is a state-specific legal news and research-adjacent publication. Its value is concentration: South Carolina opinions, verdicts, and legal community news in one daily-updated place, with a newsletter and subscription path for regular access. Confirm current subscription terms on the site, since pricing and access levels are not specified in the available information.