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S. McKinley Gray, III


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.

Practice Groups
Labor and Employment
Litigation
Agribusiness

Practice Concentration
Employment Contracts, Compensation, and Benefits
Employment Discrimination and Harassment
Employment Litigation
Occupational Safety and Health
Wage and Hour Law
Workers' Compensation

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 Distinctions*
The Best Lawyers in America, 2009-2010
"Legal Elite," Business North Carolina, 2010

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)


Publications

Agribusiness

Labor and Employment
The Importance of Saving Litigation-Related Electronic Documents

Litigation

 

*Please see the following websites for an explanation of the standards of membership for the listings above: www.bestlawyers.com and www.businessnc.com/legalelite.

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