Martin, Gregory M.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1985

Lawyer Overview

Greg has been licensed to practice law in North Carolina since 1982.  He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Law with honors, where he received the Order of the Coif and served on the North Carolina Law Review.  Greg also attended undergraduate school at UNC, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1979.  He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1978.

In the early 1980s, Greg's practice was initially devoted to workers' compensation claims, specializing in brown lung (byssinosis) cases before the North Carolina Industrial Commission.  Later in the 1980s, Greg began handling jury trials involving the victims of automobile accidents, as well as products liability claims against manufacturers of defective drugs and products including breast implants and the dietary supplement L-Tryptophan, leading to a multi-million dollar settlement of those claims in 1993.  From late 1997 through early 2001, he successfully litigated a large group of products liability claims on behalf of residents in North Carolina and many other states who sustained serious valvular heart disease and primary pulmonary hypertension after taking American Home Products's diet drug, fenfluramine ("fen-phen").  He continues to concentrate on pharmaceutical litigation, including such cases as the defective Sulzer hip implant and the defective diabetes drug Rezulin.  He is an active member of the Shelby American Automobile Club.

Areas of Practice

• Workers Compensation
• Product Liability
• Defective Drugs

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina, 1982
• U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
• American Bar Association
• North Carolina Bar Association
• Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC)

Past Employment Positions

• Cabarrus County Small Claims Court, Judge, 1983 - 1984

Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1982
  J.D.
  Honors: With Honors
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Law Review: North Carolina Law Review, 1980 - 1981
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 1979
  B.A.
  Honors: James M. Johnson Scholar
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  Major: English Literature

Address

The Creamery
410 Glenwood Avenue
Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27603

Phones

919-821-0005
800-662-1234 (Toll Free)

Faxes

(919) 863-6076

Emails

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Websites

http://www.martinandjones.com