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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Kathleen McDaniel is being honored as a Rising Star in the 2013 Edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers rates attorneys across more than 70 practice areas. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Rising Stars are attorneys either under the age of 40 or with less […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Kathleen McDaniel has been selected for the South Carolina Bar’s 2013 Leadership Academy. The program, which lasts for six months, helps young attorneys further hone their legal skills and networks, while also educating them about community issues. They emerge as leaders better positioned to give back to their profession and their communities, […]

COLUMBIA, SC – Two Burnette Shutt & McDaniel founding partners were selected for the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest peer-reviewed publications in the legal profession: Nekki Shutt: Employment Law, Individuals; Employment Law, Management; Litigation, Labor & Employment Malissa Burnette: Employment Law, Individuals; Litigation, Labor & Employment; Mediation Selection […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – M. Malissa Burnette of Burnette Shutt & McDaniel has been included in the 2012 Edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is an annual publication that rates attorneys across more than 70 practice areas. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Burnette was highlighted for her work […]

M. Malissa Burnette, a certified specialist in employment and labor law, has been named “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest peer-reviewed publications in the legal profession. Burnette was honored as Columbia’s Employment Law – Individuals Lawyer of the Year. Only one lawyer per practice area is designated […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – M. Malissa Burnette was the featured Constitution Day speaker at Presbyterian College. Her lecture, titled “The U.S. Constitution and the Politics of Inclusion,” was open to the entire campus and community. Burnette discussed recent high-profile cases that challenge the public’s understanding of how the Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom is tempered […]

Nekki Shutt and M. Malissa Burnette have been selected for the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest peer-reviewed publications in the legal profession. Both were listed in multiple practice areas: Shutt: Employment Law, Individuals; Employment Law, Management; Litigation, Labor & Employment Burnette: Employment Law, Individuals; Litigation, Labor & Employment; […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Nekki Shutt has earned certification from the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in employment and labor law. Certification as a specialist means an attorney has at least five years’ “substantial involvement and special competency” in the area and has devoted at least 40 percent of his or her practice to […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – M. Malissa Burnette, a specialist in South Carolina employment law, was honored as the South Carolina Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section’s first recipient of the Distinguished Lawyer Award. Burnette was nominated and selected by her peers for the award, which recognizes meritorious service and outstanding community and professional contributions. A certified […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – M. Malissa Burnette has been included in the 2011 Edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers. She’s one of only three attorneys in the state whose work was recognized in the area of Plaintiff Employment Litigation. This is the fourth straight year Burnette has been named a Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers is an […]