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11, 2006
Mt. Pleasant, SC - Ben A. Hagood, Jr., Robert A. Kerr,
Jr. and Elizabeth Wayne Settle have been selected by their
peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America.
Lawyers
are selected for inclusion based on a peer-review survey.
Lawyers are not allowed to pay a fee to be listed. The current
edition of Best Lawyers is based on over one million
confidential evaluations by only the top attorneys in the
country. Best Lawyers also conducted thousands of
telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its
balloting process.
The South Carolina
Supreme Court has recertified Robert Kerr
as a specialist in Bankruptcy & Debtor-Creditor Law. Kerr
serves as Board Chair for The Education Foundation of the
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a Board Member
and Executive Committee Member for the Charleston Metro Chamber
of Commerce.
Ben
Hagood
has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
April
5, 2006
Employment Law Update
How Many Employees Do You Have?
When an
employer employs fifteen (15) employees during twenty (20)
calendar weeks of the year, the employer becomes subject to
two (2) important federal laws: (1) Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; and
(2) the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits
discrimination against individuals with a disability. When
an employer employs twenty (20) employees in twenty (20) calendar
weeks, the employer also becomes subject to the Age Discrimination
in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits discrimination in
the workplace based on age.
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November,
2004
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Business Advocate
Smaller Learning Communities
Coalition receives $2.23 million grant
The Education
Foundation of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce and
five area high schools from three school districts that make
up its Smaller Learning Communities Coalition have received
a $2.23 million implementation grant from the U.S. Department
of Education.
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