Lawyer Bio : H. Grady Barnhill, Jr.

Grady Barnhill, Jr. joined Womble Carlyle in 1958 and first tried a case to jury verdict six months later. Over the ensuing forty nine (49) years, he has tried to jury verdict or settled prior to or during trial hundreds of cases. Cases tried to verdict or disposed of otherwise cover a wide range of civil litigation, including without limitation, cases involving accounting malpractice (Ernst & Young), acquisitions, actuary malpractice (e.g., Booke & Company); air carriers (e.g., Piedmont, U.S. Airways, Eastern, TWA); aircraft and helicopter manufacturers (e.g., Cessna, Beech, Grumman, United Technologies, Bell) and suppliers (e.g., Pratt & Whitney, Teledyne, Avco Lycoming), antitrust (e.g., Armstrong World Industries), architects, automobile, aviation (engineered industry-first package settlement of all 164 cases of major aviation disaster), banking (e.g., Wachovia), bankruptcy, business judgment rule (Brad Ragan, Wachovia, All American Assurance Company, R. J. Reynolds), buses (e.g., Thomas Built Buses, Greyhound), commercial bribery, commercial transactions, conspiracy, constitutional law (e.g., preemption of North Carolina Tender Offer Disclosure Act), construction, contracts, engineering malpractice, ERISA (e.g., Morgan Stanley Group), Federal Trade Commission, fraud (e.g., General Electric Asset Management Incorporated), impotency, medical malpractice (e.g., surgery, anesthesiology, ob-gyn, cardiovascular, internal medicine, emergency room treatment, drugs), mergers, minority shareholders’ rights (e.g., New Breed), municipal (e.g., City of Winston-Salem), partnership, patent (e.g., Macfield, Beauknit), pharmaceutical (e.g., Upjohn), preliminary injunctions, premises liability (e.g., Sears, Roebuck), Public Housing Authority, railroads (e.g., Baltimore & Ohio R.R.), real estate (e.g., John Hancock Life Insurance Company), RICO (e.g., General Electric), security (e.g., class actions, Securities & Exchange Commission litigation, individual action, fraud), taxation, telephone (e.g., AT&T, Southern Bell), tobacco (e.g., a national coordinating counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1984-1989), trademark, trucking, unfair business practices, Uniform Commercial Code, white collar crimes, will caveat, wrongful discharge and zoning. For fifteen (15) plus years he represented numerous liability insurance carriers, including Aetna Casualty and Surety, Aetna Insurance, Allstate, Associated Aviation Underwriters, Central Mutual, Federated, Fireman’s Fund, Great America, National Grange, Ohio Casualty, United States Aviation Insurance Group, USF&G.

Appearances in the Courts of 12 states. Foreign-based litigation includes Canada, England, Hong Kong, Peru, and Dominican Republic.