USC law school adds focus on family and small business law

By Mike Switzer

Published March 15, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Benjamin Means, the John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics, and director of the Family and Small Business Program at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC

We’ve recently learned that our state’s flagship university law school has developed a unique program aimed at training students to be more effective as family and small business attorneys. Mike Switzer interviews Benjamin Means, the John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics and director of the Family and Small Business Program at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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