Greensboro, North Carolina, Attorney

At the law office of Jay Gervasi, P.A., we strive to provide respectful, open, and friendly service to clients facing legal concerns. North Carolina workers' compensation lawyer Jay Gervasi has more than 20 years of legal experience and is a Board Certified Specialist in Workers Compensation. Additionally, with our insurance defense and workers compensation defense background, we are better prepared to assist clients filing workers compensation, premises liability, personal injury, and general liability claims.

You can learn more about workers' compensation lawyer Jay Gervasi, including his affiliations, experience, and background by reviewing the attorney profile listed. To inquire about scheduling a free initial consultation with a knowledgeable personal injury and workers compensation attorney, contact our Greensboro injury law office today.

Jay A. Gervasi, Jr.

Attorney

Jay was born in Charleston, West Virginia on May 18, 1958. He lived with his family in Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as brief periods in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. He has been married since 1985 and has two daughters.

Jay graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1980, with a B.S. degree in Zoology. After working as a medical research technician at the Duke Medical Center for a few years, he attended Vanderbilt University Law School, where he graduated in 1986 in the top 15% of his class. After four years of practice for business-oriented firms, in which he represented defendants and insurance companies in workers’ compensation and other personal injury claims, along with a variety of other types of matters, Jay “jumped the fence” in 1990 and joined a plaintiffs’ personal injury law firm in Greensboro, where he headed up the workers’ compensation practice area and worked on other personal injury cases. After 10 years at that firm, in 2000, Jay opened his own law practice, Jay Gervasi, P.A., where he remains today.

Jay has been certified as a Specialist in workers’ compensation by the North Carolina State Bar since 2000, when certification was first offered in that field. He has been the chair of the workers’ compensation section of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, is a permanent member of the executive committee of that section and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Jay has been a frequent speaker at educational seminars for fellow lawyers and others, has written “Friend of the Court” briefs on behalf of the Academy of Trial Lawyers, and has been actively involved in advising and assisting other attorneys in their cases. Further, Jay, along with a number of his trial lawyer colleagues, has devoted significant time and resources to the political process, fighting to protect injured people in all aspects of the system. While engaging in these other activities, Jay has devoted his work to representing hundreds of seriously injured people, advising them about their decisions in the complicated variety of issues they face, and litigating their claims, before the trial courts, the Industrial Commission and the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Jay has chosen to focus his practice on a relatively limited number of cases involving severe injuries and complex issues.

Deborah L. Hones

Paralegal

Debbie was born in Denver, Colorado in 1955. She has lived all over the United States since she was nineteen years old. Debbie has been married since 1986 and has one son.

She received her degree in Paralegal Studies in 1994 and an Associates degree in Theology in 1984. She has also studied Private Investigating. She was selected as an Outstanding Young Woman of America in 1986.

Debbie began her career as a paralegal at a plaintiffs’ personal injury law firm in 1990. She began working with Jay Gervasi then and has been with him ever since, with the exception of a few years' absence to have her baby and work at a couple of other law firms. When Jay opened his own practice in February of 2000, she went to work for him as his paralegal, office manager, and bookkeeper.
Debbie received her certification as a board certified paralegal as soon as certification became available in 2005. She has been a member of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (Workers’ Compensation and Legal Assistants Sections) since 1997. She has been a member of the North Carolina Bar Association (Workers’ Compensation and Legal Assistants Sections) since 2004.

Jay A. Gervasi, Jr.