Columbia, SC

Mark Joye

Mark Joye is a trial lawyer and Firm Partner at Joye Law Firm, heading the litigation department. He specializes in trucking litigation, personal injury, and product liability, particularly focusing on tractor-trailer crashes and defective automobile components. Following in his father's footsteps, he is deeply empathetic to clients experiencing catastrophic events and prides himself on solving their problems and educating them on the legal process. He finds great satisfaction in seeing clients start new lives after successful case resolutions.

Carl L. Solomon

Carl L. Solomon is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Solomon Law Group, LLC, established in 2010. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, he holds a B.S. in Economics from Florida State University (1991) and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law (1994). He specializes in complex litigation, including catastrophic injury, pharmaceutical litigation, product liability, wrongful death, and mass torts. Carl served as President of the South Carolina Bar (2010-2011) and as a City of Columbia Municipal Judge (2011-2015). He is recognized with numerous awards including Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers In America, Martindale Hubbell (AV Rated), Million and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and is a Fellow of the National College of Advocacy. He has extensive experience in mass tort and class action cases, including AFFF, JUUL, and Opioid litigations, and has presented nationally on trial advocacy.

George Sink

George Sink has served all his life, starting as a teacher, then serving two tours in Vietnam as a Marine. After his military service, he graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1973 and began practicing law in 1974, establishing his own firm in 1977. He focuses his practice on serving injured people, with a client-oriented approach, and has helped over 40,000 injured individuals.

John D. Hawkins

John Hawkins is the Founder and CEO of HawkLaw, a firm he created and has grown and nurtured since 2002. He has been licensed to practice law in South Carolina since his graduation with honors in 1994 from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was on the Law Review and Order of Wig and Robe. John’s career has been focused on litigation, and he is experienced in handling Car Wrecks, Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability, Administrative Law, and Criminal Law matters. His familiarity with the courtroom began when he clerked for the South Carolina Supreme Court and South Carolina Circuit Court. He also served for eight years as a South Carolina State Senator and for four years as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. John has served his country for 23 years in the South Carolina Army and Air National Guard, where he rose to the rank of Major and gained even greater legal experience as a JAG officer. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wofford College. His legal experience as a litigator, Legislator, Senator, and JAG officer, as well as the leadership skills learned in politics and the military, are put to excellent use for HawkLaw’s clients. John’s love of companies that put their customers first has led him to insist that every HawkLaw client receive an Amazing Client Experience. John enjoys spending time with his two daughters. He’s also a pilot, cyclist, and avid reader.

Robert Dodson is the founding attorney of The Law Offices of Robert Dodson, P.A. He began his legal career in 1998, initially defending insurance companies, which provided him with valuable insight into their strategies. Since 2001, he has exclusively represented injured victims. Mr. Dodson has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts, including the South Carolina Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina and teaches continuing legal education seminars.

Joseph Preston “Pete” Strom, Jr.

Pete Strom, founder of Strom Law Firm, L.L.C., has been recognized as the 2025 Advocate of the Year by the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, receiving the Rev. Sen. Clementa C. Pinckney Award for Justice. He has a lifelong commitment to expanding justice and opportunity, served as U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, and has contributed to significant relief for utility ratepayers. His firm, founded in 1996, advocates for personal injury, consumer protection, civil rights, employment, and more.

Terry Richardson

Widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent plaintiff attorneys in the southeastern United States, Terry E. Richardson Jr. is a consummate litigator who represents individuals, groups, governments, and businesses in a wide range of matters. Often honored by colleagues and a leader in professional organizations, Terry’s legal career has included cases involving catastrophic injuries, product liability, securities fraud, and class actions. He has tried, and won, some of the largest cases in South Carolina. His more-notable cases include a $500 million settlement in a train derailment that was the largest single tort case in South Carolina history. He also represented a young construction worker who lost all four limbs in an electrocution in what is thought to be the largest personal-injury settlement in the state’s history. He was a pioneer in asbestos litigation, and he has represented many people in lawsuits against manufacturers and national retailers who were burned by defective products. Terry grew up helping his father raise and harvest crops on the family farm, an experience that taught him business skills at a very early age. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in economics at Clemson and completed a master’s in management and operations research in only one additional semester. He served as a systems engineer for IBM before being directly commissioned into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War to work on computerized logistical systems stateside and in Thailand. After returning to civilian life, he worked at Wilbur Smith & Associates, where he helped governments with financing bonds for airports and toll roads. He left the consulting firm to attend the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in 1974 after serving as editor-in-chief of the South Carolina Law Review. Throughout the 70s, Terry and his firm worked extensively on asbestos products liability litigation, pursuing thousands of cases throughout the country. By the early 2000s, he was overseeing dramatic growth and expansion of a firm that achieved the multi-billion-dollar Tobacco Master Settlement. That case, against the four largest cigarette manufacturers in America, required the tobacco industry to pay states billions of dollars annually forever and restricted sales and marketing of cigarettes. Terry has won numerous professional accolades over the course of his career, including the Compleat Lawyer Award from the University of South Carolina School of Law Alumni Council, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association War Horse Award and President’s Award for service to the South Carolina Trial Lawyers. He has twice been a Lawyer of the Year in the annual “Best Lawyers in America” publication, and he has consistently maintained a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating. Terry and his wife, Gail, still live in the Barnwell home they bought at the beginning of his legal career. They enjoy spending time at Edisto Beach with their three children and 10 grandchildren. Terry also enjoys ski trips with friends.