With more than 70 years as an observer and participant in the South Carolina judicial system, Bruce Littlejohn alone is in a position to offer this history.

His insights are a real as they come.

Littlejohn recounts the old days when the system allowed rouge attorneys from other states to practice law in South Carolina. He recalls the pervasive use of the dock, capital punishment for attempted rape and the 11 times that he swore an oath he would not engage in a duel during his term of office. He was present when women were first accepted into the ranks of lawyers and, in the twenty-first century, was instrumental in ensuring the appointment of the first female supreme court chief justice.

This is history told by a man who lived it.