Sam McGee
(866) 753-6982
Sam McGee graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, and began his legal career by clerking for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sam then returned to his home state of North Carolina, and has been representing injured individuals and their families ever since. Sam's practice has included many complex litigation matters in the areas of nursing home abuse and neglect, professional negligence, and class actions. Many of these matters have resulted in substantial recoveries, including multiple recoveries in excess of $1,000,000.
In the area of nursing home litigation, about which he has lectured to the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association, Sam defeated a mandatory arbitration clause in nursing home admissions contracts that was designed to force nursing home patients and their families to arbitrate their claims before a trade association for the health care industry.
Areas of Practice
- Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
- Class Actions
- Business Torts
- Serious Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Professional Negligence
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 1998
- Tennessee, 2003
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
Education
- Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
- J.D. - 1998
- Honors: Champion, Trial Competition (1995-1996)
- Honors: Best Presentation of a Case, John Fletcher Caskey Prize
- Honors: Instructor, Trial Prac. Seminar, Thomas Swann Barrister's Union, 1996-1997
- Honors: Research Assistant to Professor Bruce Ackerman (1997-1998)
- Law Journal: Yale Journal on Regulation, Editor
- Law Journal: Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Editor
- Wake Forest University
- B.A. (Summa Cum Laude)
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
- Honors: Claude Richards Award, Highest GPA in Politics Department
- Honors: Omicron Delta Ka
- Honors: Carswell Scholar
- Honors: Politics Honors Society
- Honors: Honors Program in Politics Department
- Major: Politics
Published Works
- Consequences of the Confidentiality Clause, TRIAL, June, 2009
Representative Cases
- Raiteri v. NHC Healthcare/Knoxville, Inc., Tenn. App. LEXIS 957 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003)
- Howell v. NHC/Healthcare-Fort Sanders, Inc., 109 S.W.3d 731 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2003)
- 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. 2007)
Classes/Seminars
- Speaker, "Surgical Intervention: Navigating the Labyrinth of Corporate Owners, Entities and Insurers in Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases", Southern Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2008
- Speaker, "Strategies and Tactics in Opposing and Defeating Arbitration Clauses", North Carolina Advocates for Justice Seminar, Raleigh, NC, 2008
- Speaker, Document Discovery and the Use of a Forensic Accountant in Nursing Home and Assisted Living Case", North Carolina Advocates for Justice Seminar, Raleigh, NC, 2009
- Speaker, "Interviewing the Defendant Organization's Employees: When Can You, When Should You, and When Are You Ethically Prohibited From Doing So?", North Carolina Bar Association Seminar, Cary, NC, 2009
- Speaker, Game Plan for Handling a Nursing Home Case, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Asheville,, NC 2009
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group; Construction Defects Litigation Group
- Southern Trial Lawyers Association
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice, Secretary, Nursing Home Litigation Group; Legal Affairs Committee
Past Employment Positions
- The Hon. Morris S. Arnold United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1998 - 1999
- The Hon. Henry E. Frye, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Intern., 1996
Pro Bono Activities
- Chair, Union County Library Board, 2000 - 2002
