Sam Mcgee
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Phone: 704.377.6680
Fax: 704.377.6690
Practice Areas
- Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect, Construction Defects, Class Actions, Business Torts, Products Liability, Serious Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Professional Negligence
Education
- Wake Forest University (B.A., summa cum laude, Politics, 1995)
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Claude Richards Award for Highest GPA in Politics Department; Omicron Delta Kappa; Carswell Scholar; Politics Honors Society; Honors Program in Politics Department. - Yale Law School (J.D., 1998)
Honors: Champion of 1995-1996 Trial Competition;
John Fletcher Caskey Prize for best presentation of a case
Activities: Thomas Swann Barristers’ Union
Yale Journal on Regulation, Editor;
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Editor.
Clerkships and Teaching/Research Experience
- Law Clerk, The Honorable Morris S. Arnold United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit (1998-1999)
- Intern, The Honorable Henry E. Frye, Supreme Court of North Carolina (1996)
- Research Assistant to Professor Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School (1997-1998)
- Instructor, Trial Practice Seminar for Thomas Swann Barrister’s Union, Yale Law School (1996-1997)
Representative Reported Cases
- Raiteri v. NHC Healthcare/Knoxville, Inc., 2003 Tenn. App. LEXIS 957 (Tenn. Ct. App., 2003) (defeated mandatory arbitration clause in nursing home admissions contract).
- 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).
- Smith v. Town of Stalling Board of Adjustment, 581 S.E.2d 833 (N.C. Ct. App., 2003).
- Kniep v. Templeton, 649 S.E.2d 425 (N.C. Ct. App. April, 2007).
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina (1998)
- Tennessee (2003)
- United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- United States District Courts (Western, Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina; Eastern District of Tennessee)
Professional Memberships
- American Association for Justice
- Construction Defects Litigation Group
- Nursing Home Litigation Group
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association
Lectures and Publications
- "Surgical Intervention: Navigating the Labyrinth of Corporate Owners, Entities and Insurers in Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases," STLA Annual Convention, January 2008 (New Orleans, LA, Speaker)
- "Strategies and Tactics in Opposing and Defeating Arbitration Clauses," NCATL Seminar, February 2008 (Raleigh, NC, Speaker)
Community Involvement
Union County Library Board, Chair, 2000-2002 (Helped oversee overhaul of County’s library system, including renovation of two existing libraries, and construction of two new libraries)
Civitan International, 2007-Present
Interests: Writing, Fishing, Hiking and Baseball.
Born: Rockingham, North Carolina, October 9, 1973.