Columbia Attorneys Appointed Treasurer, Board Member of South Carolina Bar
May 6, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – May 7, 2009 – Columbia attorney Carl L. Solomon will be installed as the 2009-10 treasurer of the South Carolina Bar on Thursday, May 14, during the Bar’s House of Delegates meeting at the Poinsett Club in Greenville. Columbia attorney J. Calhoun Watson will be installed as a member of the South Carolina Bar Board of Governors.
Solomon is a partner in the firm of Gergel, Nickles and Solomon, PA, practicing in the area of complex litigation including catastrophic injury, pharmaceutical litigation, products liability and wrongful death. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1994.
Solomon is also a member of the Richland County Bar Association; American Bar Association; S.C. Association for Justice; American Association for Justice; Columbia Lawyers Association (serving as president in 2004); National Bar Association; and is a Pro Bono Prosecutor for the S.C. Attorney General’s Office Criminal Domestic Violence Program. He received the Compleat Lawyer Award from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2005. He has been recognized included in the Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. Solomon has also served on the boards of the S.C. Commission on Higher Education and the Mid-Carolina Commission.
J. Calhoun Watson is a partner in the Columbia law firm of Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, practicing in the areas of commercial litigation, class actions and professional negligence. He was previously a clerk to the Hon. Robert F. Chapman, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is admitted to practice before the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1987.
Watson is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, Richland County Bar Association, American Bar Association, John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court, S.C. Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association, S.C. Access to Justice Commission and the Defense Research Institute. He is also president of the Historic Columbia Foundation and a past president of the Wofford College National Alumni Association.
Previous positions held within the South Carolina Bar include member of the House of Delegates, Conventions Committee, Nominating Committee and Long Range Planning Committee; president of the South Carolina Bar Foundation, president of the Young Lawyers Division; and member of the editorial board of the South Carolina Lawyer magazine.
Watson is listed in the Best Lawyers in America and S.C. Super Lawyers. In 2001, he was honored with the USC School of Law’s Compleat Lawyer Award, which recognizes alumni for outstanding civic and professional accomplishments.
The South Carolina Bar, which has a membership of more than 13,000 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.
