Jack Bruce Swerling
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 50 years of experience
Federal, Drug Crime, Assault & Battery, Criminal Law, White Collar Crime
1720 Main Street, Suite 301, Columbia, SC 29201
About Jack Bruce Swerling
Practice Areas
- Federal
- Drug Crime
- Assault & Battery
- Criminal Law
- White Collar Crime
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina, 1973J.D.
- Clemson University, 1968B.A.
- Major: Economics
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina, 1973
- U.S. District Court District of South Carolina, 1974
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1976
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
Other Affiliations
- Chief Justice's Commission on the Profession
- Richland County Bar Association, 1989 - 1991 (Chairman, Criminal Law Committee)
- American Bar Association (Member, Section of Criminal Justice)
- South Carolina Bar, 1985 - 1986 (Chairman, Criminal Law Section)
- American Association for Justice
- South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, 1981 - 1984 (Chairman, Criminal Law Section)
- South Carolina Bar Foundation (Life Fellow and Past President)
- Permanent Member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
- South Carolina Criminal Trial Lawyers Association (a founding member)
- The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- American Judicature Society
- John Belton O'Neil Inn of Court
- South Carolina Supreme Court Board of Commissioners on Grievance and Discipline, 1989 - 1993
- South Carolina Board of Law Examiners, 1987 - 1992
- South Carolina Pre-Trial Intervention Advisory Committee, 1980 - 1982
- South Carolina Legislative Committee on Indigent Defense, 1990 - 1995
- South Carolina Uniform Jury Charge Project, 1991 - 1994
- South Carolina Criminal Docket Committee (Chairman)
- The Child Victim Court Notebook, 1987 (Advisory Committee)
Past Positions
- University of South Carolina School of Law, Adjunct Faculty, 1985 - 1989
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Adjunct Faculty, 1990 - Present
Articles
Published Works
- The Right to Free Speech Versus the Right to a Fair Trial - Balancing Competing Interests, 42 S.C.L.R. 901, 1991
- I Can't Believe I Asked That Question: A Look at Cross-Examination Techniques, 50 S.C.L.R. 3, 1999
- The Preliminary Hearing as a Discovery Device, The South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association Bulletin, Fall, 1982
- Handling the Preliminary Hearing in Drug Cases, Inside Drug Law, Volume 1, Number 5, December, 1984
- Jury Charges for Self-Defense in Homicide Cases, South Carolina Lawyer, September/October, 1989
- Defending the Battered Woman, South Carolina Lawyer, December, 1990
- South Carolina Trial Notebook, S.C. Bar, Volumes I, II and III, 1991
- On Being A Trial Lawyer, South Carolina Lawyer 1999, The Champion 2000
- Contributing author: South Carolina Criminal Trial Techniques Handbook, South Carolina Bar, 1998
- Co-author My Little Rules Book - Criminal, Annotated Second Edition, South Carolina Bar, 2004
Office Info
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