S. McKinley Gray, III

Gray, S. McKinley (III)

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P: 252.672.5476
F: 252.672.5477
smg@wardandsmith.com

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New Bern, NC 28562
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New Bern, NC 28563-0867

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Practice Concentrations

  •  Employment Contracts, Compensation, and Benefits
  • Employment Discrimination and Harassment
  • Employment LitigationOccupational Safety and Health
  • Wage and Hour Law
  • Workers' Compensation

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Biography

Mr. Gray is leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. His practice experience encompasses various areas of employment-related litigation. Mr. Gray advises clients and litigates cases involving all forms of employment discrimination, wrongful discharge, and breach of employment contracts from small start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations. He is a frequent lecturer on employment discrimination, workplace retaliation, workers' compensation, and wage and hour law issues. Mr. Gray has been rated by his peers as being "preeminent" in his fields of law and serves in leadership roles with various legal and civic organizations. He is a former president of the Craven County Bar Association and a former two-term president of the Board of Directors for the United Way of Coastal Carolina.

Admitted to Practice

  • North Carolina, 1993
  • All state courts in North Carolina
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina

Honors and Distinction*

  • The Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2012
  • "Legal Elite," Business North Carolina, 2010 and 2012

Education

  • J.D., magna cum laude, Campbell Law School, 1993. Business Editor, Campbell Law Review.
  • B.S., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990. Johnston Scholar.

Professional and Community Affiliations

  • American Bar Association — Sections: Labor and Employment Law; Tort Trial and Insurance Practice
  • Craven County Bar Association (secretary/treasurer 1998-1999; president 1999-2000)
  • North Carolina Bar Association — Sections: Labor and Employment Law; Litigation; Young Lawyers Division (co-chair of Quality of Life Committee 1995)

* Please see the following websites for an explanation of the membership standards for the following recognitions: www.bestlawyers.com; www.businessnc.com/legalelite; and www.superlawyers.com/north-carolina.