Attorney Profile

Jay focuses on civil litigation, primarily representing plaintiffs in personal injury matters.  Jay has assisted several individuals and families pursue claims following car accidents, falls, medical mistakes, and other acts of negligence.  Jay has experience handling wrongful death cases, medical malpractice claims and product liability disputes.  Jay also sometimes represents business and individuals in transaction-related disputes, and has assisted individuals with disputes related to the interpretation and enforcement of wills.

Jay graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1998, and graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina School Of Law in 2002. During law school he received the Gressman-Pollit Award for outstanding oral advocacy, was invited to join the North Carolina Law Review, was a member of the Holderness Moot Court team, and was a founding member of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology.

After law school, Jay moved to Atlanta, Georgia, working for Troutman Sanders LLP. He was named a "Rising Star in Litigation" by Law and Politics and Atlanta Magazine in 2005 and 2006; an honor achieved each year by less than three percent of Georgia attorneys under the age of forty. While in Atlanta, Jay focused on litigation defense work for several large corporations, including Georgia Power, CNN, Carmike Cinemas, and others. He also represented a number of individual clients, largely on a pro-bono basis, and was recognized by Troutman Sanders for excellence in pro-bono advocacy in each of his first three years with the firm.

In 2007, Jay moved to Raleigh and joined Burns, Day & Presnell, P.A. He is licensed to practice law in state and federal courts in North Carolina and Georgia, and also has been admitted to practice in both the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the Georgia Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.