Private law schools are becoming nonprofits

By Mike Switzer

Published June 24, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT

Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

Ten years ago there were several top, private law schools in the country, including one in our state. But they have almost all now converted to nonprofit status, including the one in our state, where our next guest joins us now by phone. Mike Switzer interviews Jon Marcantel, dean of the Charleston School of Law.

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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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