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CHRISTOPHER J. BACHKOSKY, CPA/PFS, CFP®, is a member with the accounting firm of Sellars, Cole & Bachkosky, L.L.C. in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned his Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of South Carolina and his Master of Taxation degree from USC. After graduation, Mr. Bachkosky took a position as a trust tax officer with Bank of America, where he developed his expertise in the areas of estates and trusts. He entered public accounting in 1994, where he has developed and managed a growing tax practice. He has focused on the tax and financial planning needs of small to mid-sized businesses and their owners. Mr. Bachkosky has concentrated his efforts in the areas of advanced tax consulting, complex tax compliance, and estate and personal financial planning. Mr. Bachkosky currently serves his clients in all areas of accounting, tax, business and financial planning. In his practice, he works with clients in the residential and commercial real estate investment and development industries, as well as land and timber management companies. He has been published in professional journals and appeared as an expert on several radio and other media programs. He has provided court testimony and presented continuing education programs to attorneys and other financial professionals on a variety of tax and financial matters. Mr. Bachkosky is a member of the Personal Financial Planning Community of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, and the Financial Planning Association. (Charleston and Columbia locations) RONALD LES BLANKENSHIP brings extensive expertise and experience as an entrepreneur and business executive to his law practice, co-founding two successful network and database engineering companies. His information technology experience spans 19 years, and was supplemented by six years as a nuclear engineering supervisor in the U.S. Navy submarine force. While a full time law student, Mr. Blankenship acted as the Charleston School of Law's first IT manager, designing and building a state-of-the-art data and communications infrastructure. At the same time, he served on the Moot Court Board and Charleston Law Review. Since joining the Finkel Law Firm LLC in 2008, Mr. Blankenship has managed more than 150 litigated foreclosure matters for several of the largest mortgage companies and servicers in the U.S. In this role, he was also instrumental in designing and implementing detailed foreclosure intervention policies, procedures, pleadings, and forms to comply with recent South Carolina Supreme court administrative orders. As the attorney with oversight of the firm's IT Department, he conducted a detailed systems analysis audit for the firm's high-volume foreclosure department to increase workflow efficiency and lower costs. (Charleston location) JASON L. BRANHAM is a member of Brock & Scott, PLLC in Columbia, South Carolina where he focuses his practice on real estate and mortgage foreclosure. He has lectured on real estate law topics for various real estate professional groups. Mr. Branham is a member of the Lexington County Bar Association and the South Carolina Bar. He earned his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina. (Columbia location) BENJAMIN A. DUNN II is a partner with the law firm of Holler, Dennis, Corbett, Ormond, Plante & Garner in Columbia, South Carolina. His practice is focused on litigation involving real property, contractual disputes and employment, as well as residential and commercial real estate transactions. He earned his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, with senior departmental honors, from Clemson University and his J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he served on the student editorial board of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal. Prior to joining Holler, Dennis, Corbett, Ormond, Plante & Garner, he served as underwriting and claims counsel for Stewart Title Guaranty Company's South Carolina Office. Mr. Dunn is a member of the Richland County Bar Association and the South Carolina Bar. (Columbia location) BEN A. HAGOOD JR. is the founding member of the Mount Pleasant law firm of Hagood & Kerr, P.A., where he practices in the areas of environmental law, business litigation and business transactions. He earned his B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of Virginia and his J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Mr. Hagood is a member of the American Bar Association's Environmental, Energy and Resource, and Law Practice Management sections; the South Carolina Bar’s Natural Resources Section (former chairman and council member); and the Charleston County Bar. (Charleston location) LISA M. HOSTETLER is an attorney in the Transactional Law Department with the law firm of Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC. She practices in the areas of real estate owned (REO) and residential real estate transactions, title insurance, estate planning, and contract negotiation and drafting. Ms. Hostetler frequently presents on topics such as short sales, foreclosures, title 101, landlord-tenant law, contracts, real estate and advanced real estate. She also conducts closings for new home owners of Habitat for Humanity houses. Ms. Hostetler is a member of the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, Treasurer of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the board of the Rotary Club of Five Points, and Scholarship Chair of the Palmetto Land Title Association. She earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Bethany College and her J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. (Charleston location) CHARLES ORMOND has been practicing law for 21 years and has been a partner with the law firm of Holler, Dennis, Corbett, Ormond, Plante & Garner in Columbia, South Carolina for 13 years. His practice focuses primarily in administrative and judicial litigation, with an emphasis in the areas of environmental and employment, as well as professional negligence and contract law. Mr. Ormond began his career with the McNair Law Firm and then joined Constangy, Brooks and Smith, where he practiced both environmental and employment law. Prior to law school, Mr. Ormond was a professional geophysicist and continues as a registered professional geologist in South Carolina. He earned his B.S. degree in geology from Baylor University, his MS degree in geophysics from Texas Tech and his J.D. degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Mr. Ormond, as part of his practice, consults with both buyers and sellers and their respective attorneys associated with transfers of real property utilizing Brownfields agreements and other procedures designed to mitigate the risks relating to the purchase of contaminated property. (Columbia location)
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