Jay A. Gervasi Jr.
Areas of Practice
- Workers Compensation
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Motor Vehicle Defects
- Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
- Wrongful Death
- Car Accidents
- Insurance Law
Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
- J.D. - 1986
- Duke University
- B.S. - 1980
- Honors: cum laude
- Major: Zoology
Bar Admission
- North Carolina, 1986
- South Carolina, 1988
Professional Activity
- Seminar presentations for continuing education of other lawyers, including the annual worker’s compensation appellate case law update at the annual convention of the NC Advocates for Justice for over 20 years
- Monitoring, with colleagues, cases and legislation affecting worker’s compensation and taking action to help shape the law
- Formal participation as “friends of the court” in cases before the appellate courts, a well as informal assistance to other lawyers and association in other lawyers’ cases
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Fellow of the invitation-only national College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers
Past Positions
- Duke Medical Center, Medical Research Technician
Professional Associations
North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Worker’s Compensation Section:
Chair, Previous
Member of Executive Committee, 1995 – present
Co-Chair of Amicus Committee 2004 – present
- North Carolina Bar Association, Workers Compensation Section, 1995 to Present
- American Bar Association, Member
- North Carolina Advocates of Justice, Workers' Compensation Section, Member Since 1990, Executive Committee, Member since 1995
- American Association for Justice, Member
- North Carolina Advocates of Justice, Workers' Compensation Section, Amicus Committee, Co-Chair
Certified Legal Specialties
- Board Certified, Specialist in Worker's Compensation Law, Board of Legal Specialization, North Carolina State Bar, since 2000, when certification in that field was first created
About Jay A. Gervasi
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 adult daughters.
Jay graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1980, with a Bachelors of Science 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 percent of his class. After returning to North Carolina and 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.
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