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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – South Carolina Lawyers Weekly has selected Nekki Shutt to receive a 2016 South Carolina Leadership in Law Award. Shutt was among only 30 recipients this year. She and the other honorees will be profiled in the Jan. 18 edition of the magazine and celebrated at an awards dinner March 10 at […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt will present a program this week at the SC Bar’s 5th annual “Everything You Need to Know About Ethics” seminar. The all-day program begins at 8:50 a.m. Jan. 15 at the Bar Conference Center in Columbia. It also will be webcast at a dozen locations across the state. Shutt’s […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CARLINA – Employment law attorney Nekki Shutt participated, along with six other prominent South Carolinians, in a town hall discussion at Winthrop University. The discussion, titled “The New South: Shifting Cultural Norms,” was one of several programs planned at the university in advance of that night’s Democratic presidential forum. South Carolina’s Feb. 27 […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – M. Malissa Burnette and Nekki Shutt are recognized in the just-released 2016 Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest peer-reviewed publications covering the legal profession. Malissa Burnette was honored as Lawyer of the Year in Employment Law – Individuals in the Columbia metropolitan area. She also was included in the […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt again is serving as co-moderator of Employment Law Essentials, a continuing legal education seminar she helped develop last year for the South Carolina Bar. The CLE Essentials Series consists of nine seminars covering major South Carolina practice areas as well as office technology. New law school graduates are required […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt has helped 29 union plumbers and pipefitters from Aiken win their day in court in the latest round of a protracted nine-year battle to collect the workers’ vacation pay. “This is a complicated case involving dozens of parties,” said Shutt, a Certified Specialist in Labor and Employment Law. “At […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Three South Carolina residents who were denied driver’s licenses under their married names are suing the state Department of Vehicles, asking that the agency be forced to treat same-sex spouses who change their names the same as it does heterosexual couples. Burnette Shutt & McDaniel attorneys Nekki Shutt, M Malissa Burnette […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAOLINA – From “don’t ask, don’t tell” to the Defense of Marriage Act, the law is littered with acts, most of them subsequently declared unconstitutional or repealed, that restrict the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender couples. Though the times and the laws slowly are changing, a number of statutes still prevent […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA –Nekki Shutt and M. Malissa Burnette are two of the attorneys involved in a Charleston County same-sex couple’s fight for marriage equality. If the legal actions succeed, South Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriages would end. Colleen Condon and Nichols Bleckley are battling for marriage equality on two fronts in actions filed in […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Three attorneys at Burnette Shutt & McDaniel have been honored in Columbia Business Monthly’s 2014 Legal Elite of the Midlands. Inclusion in the publication means that the attorneys are considered among the top 10 in their practice area. The honorees are selected after a poll of almost 1,400 South Carolina Bar […]