Jacqueline D. Grant

Practices & Industries

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Appellate Law
• Business Law
• Civil Rights
• Health Care
• Insurance Coverage
• Labor & Employment
• Litigation
• Manufacturers & Distributors
• Medical Malpractice
• Personal Injury & Wrongful Death

Education

• Western Carolina University, BS, magna cum laude, 1992
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, JD, 1995

Bar & Court Admissions

• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• North Carolina Bar Association: Section: Litigation, Litigation Section Council
• North Carolina State Bar
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, North Carolina, Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts
• U.S. Supreme Court

Biography

Jackie Grant, a partner and litigator at Roberts & Stevens, successfully represents individuals, businesses and organizations in a broad range of areas including civil litigation, complex personal injury, employment litigation and professional liability litigation at the trial and appellate levels in both North Carolina State and U.S. Federal Courts.

Jackie has significant experience obtaining settlements and verdicts on behalf of plaintiffs in employment matters, personal injury litigation, and complex litigation cases. Equally, she has obtained numerous defense verdicts on behalf of physicians and hospitals in multi-million dollar medical malpractice cases. She has also successfully defended employers, individuals, and corporations in employment litigation and complex personal injury litigation.  She is a formidable negotiator who acts in the best interest of her clients through trial, mediation or arbitration.

Jackie is a distinguished member of the North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors and a 2011 North Carolina Super Lawyer in Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice.  Jackie was also recently inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.

An Asheville native, Jackie is a community advocate who has served on the boards of several local organizations including the YWCA, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Western North Carolina and the City of Asheville Sustainable Economic Development Task Force. Professionally, she is an active member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, Defense Research Institute, North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, and North Carolina Bar Association Litigation Council.

Experience

Complex personal injury

Employment law

General civil litigation

Insurance defense

Medical Malpractice on behalf of hospitals and physicians

Professional

Asheville Consistory #253 Commander in Chief Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Law, 1995

AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

The Best Lawyers in America, Medical Malpractice Law/ Defendants, 2012

Defense Research Institute

Epps-Daily-Harrell Law Society

Faculty Presenter at the Palmetto Health Department of Emergency Medicine Class of 2007 Senior Retreat, "Transition to Practice"

Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow

National Holderness Moot Court Team

North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, member, 1997-present; Board of Directors, 2003-2006

North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys

North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors, Executive Committee, 2011-present

North Carolina Super Lawyers, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, 2010 Rising Star;  2011-2012

Top 50 Women North Carolina Super Lawyers, 2012

Pisgah Legal Services, Board of Directors, 1996-1998

Presentations include:

"Documentation and Medical Negligence," Park Ridge Health, 2010

"Issues of Medical Negligence as it Applies to Nurses," VA Medical Center of Asheville, 2006

Community Service

Asheville-Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement, Board of Directors, 2005-2010

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Western North Carolina, Board of Directors, 1997-2001

City of Asheville Sustainable Economic Development Task Force, Member, 2003-2007

Mountain Area Child & Family Center, Board of Directors, 2002-2008

Mountain Area Hospice Foundation, Board of Directors, 2000-2004

University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation, Board of Directors, 2011-present

YMCA of Western North Carolina, Board of Directors, 2006-present, Executive Committee 2009-present

YWCA of Asheville, Board of Directors, 1997-1999