Senior Lawyer Division
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Lesley M. (Lee) Coggiola
Office of Disciplinary Counsel
Columbia, SC
Lee Coggiola is currently Disciplinary Counsel for the South Carolina Supreme Court, formerly Chief Staff Attorney for the South Carolina Court of Appeals. Before coming to the Court of Appeals she served as the Chief Public Defender of Richland County. Her Bar memberships include the South Carolina Supreme Court, United States District Court, District of South Carolina, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. She is a 1967 graduate of the University of Miami and received her JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1988. Prior to attending law school she spent eleven years with IBM in systems and marketing. Since admission to the Bar she also served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Carol Connor, Assistant Public Defender, Assistant Appellate Defender, and Of Counsel at Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough. As chair of the Criminal Law Section, she served on the House of Delegates for the South Carolina Bar. Additionally, she served on the board of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, was former President of the South Carolina Public Defender Association, and former member of the American Council of Chief Defenders, the Commission of the Office of Indigent Defense, and the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys. Currently she serves as a member of the American Bar Association, the Center for Professional Responsibility, and the National Organization of Bar Counsel. She is a member of the John Belton O’Neall Inn of Court and the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession. She received the Gold Compleat Lawyer award from the University of South Carolina School Of Law in 2008, the Rhodes McDonald Award from the John Belton O'Neall Inn of Court in 2014 and is the 2014 recipient of the Jean Galloway Bissell Award from the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association. She is co-editor of the Fifth and Sixth Edition of The Criminal Law of South Carolina and is an adjunct instructor at USC School of Law.
Matthew Goerke
Author of The Memory Switch
Hackettstown, NJ
Matthew Goerke is regarded as one of American’s leading experts in the field of Memory Development. He has shared with thousands of business professionals from all walks of life the techniques for developing an instant recall memory with results that can only be described as amazing.
Matthew has worked with such well known speakers as Zig Ziglar, Ed Forman, Vic Conant and Tony Robbins. He has trained executives from corporations including AT&T, Prudential, Exxon, Wells Fargo, Merck Pharmaceutical and Coldwell Banker, and government agencies such as the United States Postal Service and the Defense Department. Matthew has also had a tremendous impact in educational settings, having personally trained thousands of students and teachers at all academic levels.
Matthew is the developer of the “Memory Switch Program” the most utilized program of its kind ever developed and for that reason is a sought after guest and has appeared on hundreds of radio and television talk shows.
John O. McDougall
(Course Planner)
McDougall and Self, L.L.P.
Columbia, SC
John is the senior partner of the law firm of McDougall and Self, L.L.P., with the offices in Columbia and Sumter, South Carolina. He is Past President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Foundation, and a Vice President of the USA Chapter of the International Lawyers. He is a Diplomate in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers and has been named in the Best Lawyers in America, Family Law Designation, since 1991.
He has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. He is Past President of the South Carolina Bar (1998-1999), Past President of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers (1993-1994) and Past President of the South Carolina Bar Foundation (2007-2008). He also served as the Secretary for the Senior Lawyers Division of the South Carolina Bar (2014-2015).
Mr. McDougall is currently a member of the South Carolina Bar, United States Supreme Court, South Carolina Association For Justice, American Association For Justice, American Bar Association, Richland County Bar Association, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, American College of Family Trial Lawyers, and American Inns of Court, and John Belton O'Neall Inn Chapter.