Sam Mcgee
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Phone: 704.377.6680
Fax: 704.377.6690
Areas of Practice
- Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
- Class Actions
- Appeals
- Business Torts
- Serious Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Professional Negligence
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 1998
- Tennessee, 2003
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
Education
- Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
- J.D. - 1998
- Honors: Champion, Trial Competition (1995-1996)
- Honors: Best Presentation of a Case, John Fletcher Caskey Prize
- Honors: Instructor, Trial Prac. Seminar, Thomas Swann Barrister's Union, 1996-1997
- Honors: Research Assistant to Professor Bruce Ackerman (1997-1998)
- Law Journal: Yale Journal on Regulation, Editor
- Law Journal: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Editor
- Wake Forest University
- B.A. (Summa Cum Laude)
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
- Honors: Claude Richards Award, Highest GPA in Politics Department
- Honors: Omicron Delta Ka
- Honors: Carswell Scholar
- Honors: Politics Honors Society
- Honors: Honors Program in Politics Department
- Major: Politics
Published Works
- "Day v. Brant" (Reprint of Amicus Brief by Sam McGee and Adam Stein) Trial Briefs, (February 2011
- Consequences of the Confidentiality Clause, TRIAL, June, 2009
Representative Cases
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Rodrigues v. Southern Assisted Living, Inc., 699 S.E.2d 686, 2010 N.C. LEXIS 1898 (N.C. Ct. App., 2010) (defeated mandatory arbitration clause in nursing home admissions contract).
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Raiteri v. NHC Healthcare/Knoxville, Inc., 2003 Tenn. App. LEXIS 957 (Tenn. Ct. App., 2003) (defeated mandatory arbitration clause in nursing home admissions contract).
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Howell v. NHC/Healthcare-Fort Sanders, Inc., 109 S.W.3d 731 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003) (defeated mandatory arbitration clause in nursing home admissions contract).
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Kniep v. Templeton, 649 S.E. 2d425 (N.C. Ct. App. 2007) (enforced contract to sell property when buyer refused to close).
Classes/Seminars
- Speaker, "Surgical Intervention: Navigating the Labyrinth of Corporate Owners, Entities and Insurers in Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases", Southern Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2008
- Speaker, "Strategies and Tactics in Opposing and Defeating Arbitration Clauses", North Carolina Advocates for Justice Seminar, Raleigh, NC, 2008
- Speaker, Document Discovery and the Use of a Forensic Accountant in Nursing Home and Assisted Living Case", North Carolina Advocates for Justice Seminar, Raleigh, NC, 2009
- Speaker, "Interviewing the Defendant Organization's Employees: When Can You, When Should You, and When Are You Ethically Prohibited From Doing So?", North Carolina Bar Association Seminar, Cary, NC, 2009
- Speaker, Game Plan for Handling a Nursing Home Case, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Asheville,, NC 2009
- Program Chair, "Wrongful Death: Achieving Maximum Results for Your Client," North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Greensboro, NC 2011
- Program Chair and Panelist, "Lessons from America's Largest Nursing Home Verdict," North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Raleigh, NC 2011
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group; Construction Defects Litigation Group
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Secretary, Vice Chair and CLE Chair, Nursing Home Litigation Group; Legal Affairs Committee; Education Committee
Past Employment Positions
- The Hon. Morris S. Arnold United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1998 - 1999
- The Hon. Henry E. Frye, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Intern., 1996
Pro Bono Activities
Chair, Union County Library Board, 2000 - 2002
Interests: Writing, Fishing, Hiking and Baseball.
Born: Rockingham, North Carolina, October 9, 1973.