Reginald Wayne Belcher Shareholder Turner Padget, Columbia

Reg Belcher has built a 29-year career representing employers in labor and employment matters. As a shareholder at Turner Padget in Columbia, he focuses on helping businesses navigate workplace issues while maintaining legally sound practices and positive employee relations.

Belcher’s employment law expertise ranges from winning summary judgment in large class action cases to providing preventive counsel that helps employers avoid disputes. His dual background in business and law helps him to understand both legal and practical challenges facing employers.

Clients representative of his work include Sea Hunt Boat Manufacturing, Columbia International University and Landmark Construction.

Beyond litigation, Belcher serves as a mediator in employment cases and regularly speaks at Society for Human Resource Management meetings. He also teaches labor relations at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

His leadership includes serving as chair of the South Carolina Bar’s Labor and Employment Specialization Committee and national involvement with the Defense Research Institute’s Labor and Employment Section.