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COLUMBIA, SC – The just-released 2017 Legal Elite of the Midlands lists four lawyers from Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, including all three of the firm’s founders. The publication’s employment law category includes M. Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt and Janet Rhodes. Kathleen McDaniel is among the Legal Elite in environmental law. “It’s great to see four […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – New attorneys can jump start an employment law career through a program Burnette Shutt & McDaniel’s Nekki Shutt helped create for the SC Bar. South Carolina Employment Law Essentials is a day-long continuing legal education program. Shutt and another Columbia employment lawyer developed the CLE, now it its fourth year. They […]

I grew up in the south—no, the OTHER south. The land of palm trees, carne asada burritos, fish tacos and home of the Padres (but not the Chargers – I’m still bitter about that). San Diego. Every time I tell folks where I’m from, they ask what brought me to Columbia, South Carolina (and why […]

COLUMBIA, SC – Three experienced and skilled attorneys have come together to create Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, a forward-thinking law firm with offices in Columbia’s historic business district. Burnette Shutt & McDaniel will focus on employment law, environmental law, privacy issues and litigation. Founders M. Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt and Kathleen McDaniel practiced together for […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA –Super Lawyers 2017 is honoring three attorneys from Burnette Shutt & McDaniel in the latest edition of its annual guide to the nation’s top lawyers. Super Lawyers selected M. Malissa Burnette, Kathleen McDaniel and Janet Rhodes for inclusion. They were picked after a rigorous process that begins with peer nomination and then […]

Columbia, SC: – Two Burnette Shutt & McDaniel partners updated the legal community on a wide variety of issues during the SC Bar’s Modern Family Law II CLE in March. Nekki Shutt, an employment lawyer with Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, created the groundbreaking CLE three years ago with a goal of helping attorneys navigate complex […]

A “copyright” is a type of protection that the law gives to original works of authorship, and it is available for published and unpublished works.  Technically, a “copyright” is the right to reproduce copies; however, the Copyright Act gives authors of original works many more rights, such as enabling authors to do or authorize (i.e. […]

South Carolina, like many other states, adheres to the at-will employment doctrine, which allows an employer to terminate an employee for any reason or no reason at all.  “An at-will employee may be terminated at any time for any reason or for no reason, with or without cause.” Barron v. Labor Finders of S.C., 393 S.C. […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA –Nekki Shutt served as a co-moderator and presenter at the recent Employment Law Essentials, a day-long South Carolina Bar continuing legal education seminar for recent law school graduates. Shutt and another Columbia attorney, who, like Shutt is a certified employment law specialist, developed Employment Law Essentials. She continues to serve as co-organizer […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Two Burnette Shutt & McDaniel attorneys were honored by Columbia Business Monthly in its 2016 Legal Elite of the Midlands edition: M. Malissa Burnette in government law and labor law, and Kathleen McDaniel in environmental law. Burnette, a certified specialist in South Carolina employment law since 1993, represents clients in complex […]