Jurisdiction

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N.Y.People moves

Phillips Lytle opens first Southeast office through combination with South Carolina boutique TaberPatrick

Phillips Lytle, the New York-based midsize firm, has combined with TaberPatrick, a corporate boutique in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, giving it its first office in the Southeast. The Hilton Head office is the firm's 10th. Managing partner Douglas Dimitroff said expansion to the Southeast is key to sustaining growth across the Northeast and Midwest under the firm's new strategic plan.

Announcement (Law360 Pulse) → · Law.comOct. 29

S.C.People moves

Nelson Mullins rehires former South Carolina Commerce counsel Karen Manning in Columbia

Announcement (Bloomberg Law) →Sept. 24

S.C.Breaches and incidents

Thomson Reuters C-Track breach exposes court files across U.S. and Canadian systems

West Publishing's C-Track notified the public on September 2, 2026 that an unauthorized party obtained court-management files after activity discovered on June 30, 2026, with files obtained in March. The notice lists appellate and other courts in multiple U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and three Ontario courts. Confidential, redacted or sealed information may have been impacted at some courts; South Carolina's preliminary review found no PII so far in 2020-and-earlier appellate backups.

Report (C-Track) → · Supreme Court of South Carolina, The Record, Help Net SecuritySept. 5