Attorney Profile

Jay Mills focuses on civil litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of actions, including personal injury, wrongful death, and business and contractual disputes.

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. Jay 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. Jay focused on litigation defense work for several large corporations, including Georgia Power, CNN, Carmike Cinemas, and others. Jay 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 2003, 2004, and 2005.

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.