Mr. Blackburn serves as general counsel for the South Carolina Groundwater Association. With experience in construction and as a former registered professional geologist, he has represented insurance companies, contractors and individuals as a civil litigation trial attorney specializing in construction and environmental law since 2000.

Ms. Crawford practices in the areas of environmental law and litigation, toxic torts, and product liability. In 1997, the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice recognized Ms. Crawford as a Qualified Environmental Professional, a distinction awarded after 15 years’ experience and examination on a specific technical environmental project.

Jessica J.O. King  Attorney, Williams Mullen
Jessie King focuses her practice on environmental legal issues. A former chief attorney for the Environmental Quality Control Division of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), she has substantial experience helping companies and individuals obtain environmental permits, respond to notices of violation and environmental lawsuits, understand regulatory requirements, perform due diligence and negotiate business transactions. Jessie’s experience spans regulatory, litigation and transactional matters. She has worked with clients – including manufacturers, landfill owners, miners, farmers, developers, landlords, tenants and banks – on matters such as permitting, enforcement, compliance, Brownfields redevelopment, lending, foreclosure and bankruptcy. Her experience over the last 25 years spans matters affecting land, air and water including solid waste, hazardous waste, emerging contaminants, Superfund sites, air emissions permitting, discharge, stormwater and wastewater permitting, wetlands, underground and aboveground storage tank registration and permitting, and hazardous and toxic substance reporting.Jessie has been recognized as a leading environmental attorney by Chambers USA (2017-present), named among Columbia Business Monthly’s ”Legal Elite” (2013-present) and listed in The Best Lawyers in America© for Environmental Law and Litigation – Environmental (2018-present). In The Best Lawyers in America©, she was named the Columbia “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Environmental (2020, 2022).An active professional and community volunteer, Jessie is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia and has served on the board of the Columbia Development Corporation for almost 10 years. She currently serves as president of the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association (CAPCA) and was a founding board member of the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) – Midlands chapter. In addition, Jessie is currently an active member of the South Carolina Aggregates Association (SCAA), the South Carolina Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) – Palmetto Chapter, the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (SCMA), the North Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (NCMA) and the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) – Southeast Chapter. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina and her Bachelor of Arts from Roanoke College. 

Ms. Shahid served for a decade in the General Counsel’s Office of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, as Chief Counsel of the coastal permitting office. Since leaving DHEC in 2002, she has represented land-owners, utilities, real estate developers, industry, and local governments in permitting and compliance issues arising from regulation by DHEC, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and zoning and land use authorities.

Attorney and Founder at Terreni Law Firm
Mr. 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. Mr. Terreni practiced with Cooper, Beard & Dibble (1990-91) and with the Dibble Law Offices from 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, Mr. Terreni was hired by the S.C. Public Service Commission as the Chief Clerk and Administrator, and he held this position until February of 2010 when he returned to private practice.