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Charles “Charlie” Terreni has practiced law in Columbia, South Carolina, since 1990. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of South Carolina School Of Law. He earned his B.A. degree in International Studies with a minor in French from the University of South Carolina in 1985.

After graduating from law school, Charlie practiced with Cooper, Beard & Dibble (1990 to 91) and the Dibble Law Offices (1991 to 1995). He served as Executive Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor from 1995 to 1996. In 1996, he returned to private practice, opening the Terreni Law Firm, LLC.

In 2004, Charlie joined the Public Service Commission to serve as the Chief Clerk and Administrator of the newly restructured agency. He held this position until February 2010, when he returned to private practice. He advised the South Carolina Senate during the 2000, 2010, and 2020 decennial redistricting cycles. His practice focuses on matters involving public utilities, alternative dispute resolution, government, and public interest law.

Charlie was the lead author of the chapter entitled “The Public Service Commission of South Carolina” in South Carolina Administrative Practice and Procedure, 2d Ed., and has been a frequent speaker on practice before the Public Service Commission. He is a 2008 graduate of the South Carolina Executive Institute. He has a Martindale-Hubbell “AV” peer rating and is a FINRA Public Arbitrator.

Charlie served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Columbia YMCA from 2004-2011, the South Carolina Commission on Consumer Affairs from 2004 to 2005, and the Legislative Audit Council since 2015. Born in La Spezia, Italy, he speaks Italian and French. An avid soccer fan, Charlie has coached youth teams and organized many soccer programs in the community. He is married to Patricia Yeatman Terreni; they have two sons, Charles, Jr., and Shand.

Since 2002, Courtney Troutman has been the Director of the South Carolina Bar Practice Management Assistance Program (PMAP). At the Bar, she assists lawyers in large and small firms with risk management and law practice-related issues. She is the liaison to the Ethics Advisory committee, the Professional Responsibility committee, the Intellectual Property and Innovation committee, and the Solo & Small Firm Section. A member of the South Carolina Bar since 1990, she practiced in large law firms and worked as the Director of Information Technology in a mid-size firm. She is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, in recognition of her career contributions to the field of law practice management. She was a Fastcase 50 honoree in 2014.

Harvey M. Watson III is a graduate of The Citadel and Emory University School of Law. He has worked in private practice since his admission to the SC Bar in 2005. He began at a small firm with a general practice, handling personal injury and domestic litigation, then later real estate closings before joining the Law Offices of Desa Ballard. He now calls on that varied background as a partner in the firm of Ballard & Watson, where he handles appellate litigation of a varied nature, but devotes the majority of his practice to representation of licensed professionals before regulatory boards and agencies. As part of that focus, he has the opportunity to represent many attorneys involved with pending disciplinary investigations before the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. He also assists attorneys and firms who hope to prevent such matters from arising (or recurring) through consultation regarding law firm and trust account management generally. Harvey enjoys assisting clients when broad, generalized rules of professional conduct must be translated and applied to issues that arise in the real world practice of law, such as handling difficult clients, interpreting vague and confusing advertising limitations, or when associates suddenly depart.

Harvey serves on the SC Bar's Professional Responsibility Committee to gain insight into the evolution of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and the Ethics Advisory Committee to help contribute to their reasonable interpretation and application.

Jeff Silverberg has served as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel with the South Carolina Supreme Court Office of Disciplinary Counsel since 2021. He was previously a partner at Howser, Newman and Besley, LLC, an insurance defense firm, where his practice primarily focused on defending premises liability actions and other personal injury cases. Prior to working at HNB, Jeff worked at Mabry Law Firm, representing individuals in employment law matters, including employment discrimination cases. Jeff graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina School of Law. 

Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program, where he has served for over 27 years. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, where he was named to the Oklahoma Law Review. He publishes the law blog Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips (http://www.lawpracticetipsblog.com) and has served as co-author of three American Bar Association books on law practice management, including two on alternative billing.

Mr. Calloway is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the American Bar Association, where he served as chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2005 and has been selected to be a speaker at ABA TECHSHOW more than 20 times. He is a member of the ABA Law Practice Division’s Law Practice Magazine editorial board and wrote the Practice Management Advice column for that magazine for five years. He was awarded the Law Practice Division’s Robert P. Wilkens Award in recognition of Best Column in Division Publications in 2015. He is also currently a member of the LP Division’s Legal Futures Initiative, its Legal Technology Resource Center Committee and its Law Firm Finance Committee.

He has been inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. He is an active member of the National Association of Bar Executives, the ABA Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, the Practice Management Advisors of North America and the Association of Legal Administrators. He is a former President of the Cleveland County (Oklahoma) Bar Association. In November 2018, he was awarded the William G. Paul Oklahoma Justice Award from Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc. for his work on access to justice projects, including limited scope legal services.

Mike Polk is an attorney at Belser & Belser in Columbia. His practice focuses on probate administration and litigation, elder law, creditor rights, helping businesses, and general civil litigation. He attended Virginia Tech as an undergraduate and was in the Corps of Cadets. He was in the Navy for 4 years. Among other accomplishments, he appeared before  King Neptune and his Royal Court and was initiated into the Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of Shellbacks.  Mike graduated from UofSC Law School in 1994. He practiced law in Winnsboro for one year with Kenneth G. Goode & Associates. He joined Belser & Belser in 1995. Mike is on the Richland County Bar Executive Committee. He is chair of the South Carolina Bar Technology Committee and used to be on the Elder Law Committee. He worked on the Probate Code Revision Committee. He was named 2021 Solo Small Firm Attorney of the Year. Mike enjoys watching hockey on TV and playing fantasy baseball, which, it turns out, is somehow even lamer than it sounds. He practices yoga. Mike, his wife, and his daughter thought it would be a good idea to get two border collie puppies a couple of years ago, and boy were they wrong. In fact, if you want them, he can probably work something out.