September 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. Read full story... (PDF) 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. Read full story... (PDF)