Legislator-Lawyers Make a Mint from the State
South Carolina lawmakers rake in millions in legal fees
For some lawyers, it pays to be a state legislator.
Nearly 30 South Carolina attorney-lawmakers or law firms they worked for collectively earned more than $5.3 million in legal fees from state and local government agencies in 2011, according to The Nerve's review of the legislators' most recently filed income-disclosure forms.
Under state law, lawyer-legislators must disclose any public, not private, income that they or their firms received in the previous calendar year. Those legal fees are reported on their statements of economic interests filed annually with the State Ethics Commission.
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