MARTIN & JONES - Key Persons

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• Injury Attorney at Martin & Jones Can Help You Put Your Family Back Together
• Injury Attorney Helping Families Recover from Serious Accidents
• Personal Injury Attorney

One of the challenges of caring for children is that they don't often recognize danger when they see it. This is why we go to such lengths to keep an eye on our children at all times. When we leave them in someone else's care, we reasonably expect the same level of commitment. Unfortunately, accidents still happen, and many of these accidents are the result of negligence. If your child has been injured, their future is at stake. Fortunately, you do not have to face this alone. A Raleigh child injury attorney can help you hold the negligent parties accountable and obtain the compensation you need to rebuild your child's future. At Martin & Jones, we understand how devastating it can be when your child suffers an injury. We also know that it can be overwhelming, leaving you with very little time to deal with insurance claims or some of the other difficult questions surrounding your child's injury. For that reason, we walk with our clients every step of the way, from investigating the accident to filing the insurance claim to pursuing litigation. If your child has been injured we can help - call us today at 800-662-1234 or contact us online to schedule a free consultation to disc A Raleigh personal injury attorney can handle the settlement discussions on your behalf so that you can focus on your recovery and your day-to-day life. They can provide guidance as to what would be a reasonable settlement offer and help you understand your options as you proceed. Ultimately, your lawyer acts at your direction - you get to decide whether to settle your claim or move to the next step.

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• Suffered Brain Damage Because Nurse Ignored Fetal Distress

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• Attorney
• Partner
• Attorney / Raleigh, North Carolina

Forest has been practicing law for more than thirty years. He spent the first six years of his career as a partner with a large "defense" law firm mainly defending large corporations in civil lawsuits. Seeing the inequalities that existed in the justice system between wealthy and powerful companies and regular people, Forest was motivated to change his law practice, join Martin & Jones, and help level the playing field for ordinary, hard-working men and women and their families. With the experience Forest gained from defending lawsuits, he now represents people who have been severely injured or families of those killed due to the negligence of others. Forest has tried lawsuits for his clients to successful jury verdicts in numerous states, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Texas. He has also successfully represented clients in lawsuits filed in other states including New Jersey, Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Minnesota, Florida, Utah and Illinois. Forest has argued appellate cases in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Forest has obtained verdicts or negotiated settlements for his clients from corporations in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical, railroad, and trucking industries. He continues to represent clients in a wide variety of cases, including asbestos disease, defective drug, professional negligence, and the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). Forest was lead counsel in a case in which he won what was reported to be the single largest FELA asbestos disease verdict in the country on behalf of a CSX railroad worker who contracted the asbestos related lung cancer, mesothelioma. Forest has also obtained other verdicts or negotiated settlements for his railroad worker clients against various railroads in numerous states. Forest has been chosen by his peers as a Best Lawyer in America for more than a decade, and has the further honor of being named Lawyer of the Year 2020 for Product Liability Litigation. Forest also received the distinction of Lawyer of the Year in 2018 and 2012. He has also been chosen by his peers annually for inclusion in North Carolina Super Lawyers since 2010. Forest has achieved the highest attorney rating, "AV," by Martindale-Hubbell, an independent legal services company whose peer-review attorney ratings service is an objective indicator that an attorney has the highest ethical standards and professional ability. What these accolades and ratings do not show is Forest's commitment to and compassion for his clients. Forest has held leadership positions in the NC Advocates for Justice, and NC Bar Association and has been a speaker at seminars sponsored by these and other legal organizations. He is a Senior Fellow of The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society of the Litigation Counsel of America. Partner Forest Horne has been accepted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). ABOTA is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Seventh Amendment, which guarantees the right to civil jury trials. Members in this prestigious invitation-only group must have tried a minimum of ten civil jury trials

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• Attorney
• Attorney / Raleigh, North Carolina

Hunt grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University, Hunt was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army, where he served as a captain. He is a former intelligence officer and veteran of the Iraq War. After leaving the Army, Hunt graduated cum laude from Campbell University School of Law. While in law school, he was the Managing Editor of the Campbell Law Review and a member of the national moot court team. Hunt served as an extern to the Honorable Rick Elmore of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and upon graduation was inducted into the Order of Barristers. He was later awarded the Safran Moot Court Award by the law school for outstanding contribution to the school's appellate advocacy program. Hunt's practice focuses on representing real people who have been harmed by the negligence of others, including from tractor-trailer and commercial vehicle collisions, car wrecks, defective and dangerous products, industrial explosions, fires and other major incidents involving serious injury or death. In the courtroom, Hunt routinely tries cases to verdict for his clients before juries across the state of North Carolina, whether it's State or Federal court. In fact, Hunt's trial team won jury verdicts of $3.35 million, $2.25 million, and $250,325 in 2014 alone. Outside the courtroom, Hunt has obtained many significant multi-million dollar settlements for his clients. His practice includes a wide variety of areas, from product liability and wrongful death to commercial trucking litigation and insurance coverage disputes. Hunt also has considerable experience and success advocating on behalf of seriously injured children and the unique challenges presented by those important cases. He is licensed to practice in all North Carolina courts, as well as all federal courts in North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. He is an active member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the American Association for Justice, and the Southern Trial Lawyers Association. Hunt is also a member of several national and local Veterans advocacy groups where he maintains the connection to his military family. Hunt has been recognized by Super Lawyers since 2016, as a Best Lawyer in America since 2020, as well as among the Legal Elite in North Carolina by Business NC magazine. Hunt lives in Raleigh with his wife and daughters. In their free time, they love traveling, fitness, and the outdoors. Attorney Hunt Willis had two 2020 cases listed in North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's annual listing of the previous year's top verdicts and settlements that published today. Lawyers Weekly editor David Donovan introduced the list with an article on how the pandemic did not ultimately change how lawyers were able to

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• Attorney
• Founding Member
• Managing Partner
• Attorney / Raleigh, North Carolina

John Alan Jones is the founding member and managing partner of Martin & Jones, where he has worked since he began practicing law in 1982. John Alan was born and raised in Pine Level, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1979, he entered law school at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Holderness Moot Court. Upon graduating from law school in 1982, John Alan began representing workers with occupational diseases caused by toxic chemicals and cotton dust. His practice soon became statewide. He represented hundreds of North Carolina workers in these occupational disease cases, which led to an interest in both medicine and product liability claims. In the mid-1980's, he began representing people who had been injured by major corporations manufacturing toxic chemicals, asbestos, defective pharmaceuticals and harmful medical devices. From 1984 until 1997, he successfully represented approximately 1,100 women from 28 states who had been injured by the Dalkon Shield IUD. Indeed, he obtained a large plaintiff's verdict in the last Dalkon Shield case tried in the United States. In 1988 he first agreed to represent someone injured by medical malpractice. He tried and won his first medical malpractice case in 1990, and he has successfully represented medical malpractice victims throughout North Carolina, having tried these cases from the mountains to the coast. He now heads the firm's medical malpractice group, which is comprised of three attorneys and seven staff members. John Alan continues to devote a large percentage of his practice to representing individuals catastrophically injured by medical negligence, defective pharmaceuticals, toxic substances or other negligence. He has also devoted a significant amount of his work time to consumer class action litigation and representing small businesses victimized by unfair business practices of major corporations. John Alan served as lead counsel on behalf of thousands of consumers in class actions against major banks arising from predatory lending practices. After more than seven years of litigation, John Alan settled predatory lending class actions against a Bank of America subsidiary, NationsCredit, for $38,750,000 and a CitiBank subsidiary, Citifinancial, for $42,500,000. Each of these class actions went to the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court, resulting in landmark appellate decisions providing protection for North Carolina consumers and providing compensation to more than 12,000 North Carolina consumers. John Alan handles both trial and appellate work in state and federal courts throughout North Carolina and around the U.S. He has received Martindale-Hubbell's "AV Preeminent" peer review rating, which is the highest rating given. He has also been recognized by his peers as a North Carolina Super Lawyer every year since 2007 and as one of North Carolina's "Best Lawyers" every year since 2008. Since 2014 he has six times been voted by his peers as "Lawyer of the Year" in either Medical Malpractice, Product Liability Litigation or Mass Tort Litigation. John Alan is married and has two children. He happily spends most of his free time with family activities, and has a particular fondness for travel.

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• Attorney

Kelly's practice is focused on representing people injured by professional negligence, such as medical malpractice, or by defective drugs, including adverse reactions to vaccines. After completing law school, Kelly began her legal career at the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., where she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marian Blank Horn. In 2021, she joined Martin & Jones because of her strong desire to fight for individuals who have been wrongly injured or harmed. Kelly understands how difficult it can be to be injured or to lose a loved one because of professional negligence or an adverse reaction to a drug or vaccine. She takes to heart the problems of the clients of Martin & Jones, embraces hard work, and is totally committed to obtaining the maximum recovery and benefits under the law for our clients. Kelly graduated from the George Washington University Law School in 2019, with honors. While in law school, she was recognized as a Thurgood Marshall Scholar. During her second year of law school, she was selected to represent clients as a student-attorney in the George Washington Law Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic. Kelly served as the Executive Articles Editor of the quarterly journal of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and was a member of the Moot Court and Mock Trial Boards. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, South Carolina and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Prior to attending law school, Kelly graduated with highest honors from North Carolina State University, earning a degree in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy, summa cum laude. During her time at N.C. State, she was a Dean's List student, a member of the University Honors Program, Pi Sigma Alpha (the National Political Science Honors Society), and Pi Beta Phi. Kelly is a Greensboro native where she attended Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School. Outside of the office she enjoys taking walks with her dog, participating in sports, and reading novels. Education George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

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• Attorney
• Attorney / Raleigh, North Carolina

Mike has been practicing law with Martin & Jones for more than 20 years and his practice focuses on representing individuals suffering from asbestos-related diseases including malignant mesothelioma, asbestos related lung cancer and asbestosis. His clients include workers who were occupationally exposed to asbestos in industrial settings such as power plants, chemical plants, railroads, shipyards, paper mills and other manufacturing facilities. Mike has represented clients from states all over the United States as well as from various provinces in Canada.

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• Rig Accident Lawyer for Maintenance - Related Truck Accidents

"Forest, once again, my family and I thank you for obtaining another settlement on behalf of my Father. It's almost uncanny that these checks seem to come at very opportune times. This one comes as we are expecting our fourth grandchild. It will provide her some sound footing towards her future college education, plus help Mom and Dad with the medical expenses. Sometimes, I think my Dad is helping you guys with this. Maybe so. Anyway, thank you again for your hard work." Trucking companies and truck drivers provide a vital service to our economy, delivering foods, machinery, and other goods to where they need to go. However, their large size and heavy weight mean that they pose a significant threat to other drivers in the event of an accident. Truck drivers and trucking companies have a legal obligation to ensure that their trucks are adequately maintained. When they fail to perform routine maintenance, the result can be a serious accident and life-changing injuries. If you have been injured in a maintenance-related truck accident, a Raleigh big rig accident lawyer from Martin & Jones can help you get your life back.

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• Attorney
• Attorney / Raleigh, North Carolina

Steven's practice is focused on representing workers who have been injured on the job, including those who have been injured due to the negligence of a third party. He routinely appears before the North Carolina Industrial Commission on behalf of clients in workers' compensation claims, and frequently represents clients in related civil litigation against at-fault parties. Steven has successfully tried numerous workers' compensation claims before the Industrial Commission and has also obtained multiple million-dollar settlements for his clients. Steven started his legal career with the office of the North Carolina Attorney General, where he worked primarily defending the state of North Carolina in workers' compensation cases. In 2015, he decided to join Martin & Jones out of a desire to help real people who have been injured or harmed. Steven understands how difficult it is for people who are injured, out of work and concerned about providing for their families after an on-the-job injury. He takes representing these folks to heart and works diligently and urgently to obtain the maximum recovery and benefits allowed under the law. Steven graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2013. While in law school, he was recognized for earning the highest grades in both Workers' Compensation and Sales, which included review of North Carolina's product liability law. Steven has been recognized as a Best Lawyer In America and as a Super Lawyers Rising Star, as well as among the Legal Elite in North Carolina by Business NC magazine. Steven is licensed to practice in all North Carolina courts, as well as the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to law school, Steven attended Lenoir-Rhyne University, earning an undergraduate degree in Political Science. During his time at Lenoir-Rhyne, he was a member of Pi Sigma Alpha (the National Political Science Honors Society) and the Deans' List. Steven also spent a semester in Washington, D.C., where he interned in the office of Congressman David Price. Steven is a Raleigh native, and attended Millbrook High School. Outside of the office, he enjoys tennis and golf, cooking, and watching the Demon Deacons. Attorney Steven Corriveau obtained a $2.4 million settlement for a woman injured after falling over...