Gary
S.
Parsons
Partner
Raleigh
Business Phone:
919.835.4110
Business Fax:
919.829.8713
gary.parsons@troutmansanders.com
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Representative Experience
Gary has broad experience in trials and appeals of civil actions, including complex cases in state and federal courts and multi-district litigation. He has defended manufacturers in a wide variety of claims involving, among others, pharmaceutical, automotive, vaccine, asbestos, and swimming pool products. He also represents businesses, lawyers, government agencies and officials, physicians, schools, and industry in commercial, products liability, professional liability, aquatics liability, athletic injury, catastrophic personal injury actions, civil rights and law enforcement liability actions, and regulatory litigation. Gary also represents businesses and insurers in commercial insurance coverage disputes.
Gary has participated in over 125 appeals before North Carolina’s state and federal appellate courts. He has also participated in over 75 trials in state and federal courts in North Carolina.
Publications
Gary has authored or presented over 40 articles for seminars or publications sponsored by, among others, the American Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, and the Wake Forest University School of Law.
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
Gary has spoken on a variety of topics, including trial technique, admissibility of expert testimony, legal malpractice claims avoidance, insurance coverage and claims practices, defense of legal malpractice claims, and legal ethics.
Other Distinctions
Selected as one of the Top 100 lawyers in North Carolina in the 2006, 2007, and 2008 editions of North Carolina Super Lawyers, published by Law & Politics and Charlotte Magazine.
Selected as the top Litigation Attorney in North Carolina in Business North Carolina magazine (January 2005).
Listed in North Carolina's "Legal Elite" in Litigation in Business North Carolina magazine (January 2002, 2004).
Listed in the The Best Lawyers in America, in Commercial Litigation (since 2005), Legal Malpractice Law (since 2005), and Personal Injury Litigation (since 2003).
Work Experience
Partner, Troutman Sanders, LLP, 2005-present
Partner, Bailey & Dixon, LLP, 1982-2005
Associate, Bailey & Dixon, LLP, 1978-1982
Law Clerk, Associate Justice J. William Copeland, North Carolina Supreme Court, 1977-1978