Top Workers Compensation Lawyers Near Me in Asheville Area

Jessica is dedicated to the worker. Since becoming an attorney in 2001, Jessica has focused on getting justice for those who have been sexually harassed, discriminated against, or suffered retaliation on the job. She represents clients who have Family and Medical Leave issues, and those who have are injured at work.. Her areas of practice include employment law, workers' compensation, and personal injury. She has litigated cases in both state and federal court and before the North Carolina Industrial Commission, and she has an extensive background in appellate work before the North Carolina Supreme Court, North Carolina Court of Appeals, and North Carolina Industrial Commission.. Jessica obtained a successful ruling from the North Carolina Supreme Court in an employment lawsuit under the North Carolina Whistleblower Act. She has also litigated a wide variety of other employment law cases, including sexual harassment, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act (REDA) cases, and wage and hour class and collective actions.. Jessica has authored and co-authored numerous publications. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Evan Mahaney Champion of Civil Liberties Award, presented by the Western North Carolina Chapter of The American Civil Liberties Union.. In 2019 and 2017, Jessica was selected to Business North Carolina's Legal Elite in the category of Employment Law. She was selected for inclusion in the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 North Carolina Super Lawyers® list and North Carolina Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" lists in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

I have been in practice since 1995, and am a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law. Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability are the focus of my work.. I am the State Bar Councilor for the 28th Judicial Bar and a Mountain Area Volunteer Attorney.. Previously, I was president of the WNC Chapter of the N.C. Association of Women Attorneys; a member of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Medico-Legal Liason Committee; treasurer and board member of Pisgah Legal Services; board member of Hangar Hall School for Girls and board member of Pathways, Life After Cancer.

I graduated from Western Carolina University and Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1991. I practiced from 1991 – 2001 with a larger Asheville firm. I re-joined two of his former partners, Ike Northup and Beth McConnell, in 2001.  Our attorneys represent clients in matters including: workers’ compensation defense, medical malpractice defense, construction matter, employment matters, patent litigation, intellectual property litigation, education matters and general insurance defense.. I am a NC Bar Certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist and a Certified Mediator.  I have an AV Preeminent Rating with Martindale-Hubbell.  I am a member of the North Carolina State Bar, 28th Judicial District Bar, North Carolina Bar Association Mediation Section, and North Carolina Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section.  I am licensed to practice in North Carolina and the U.S. District Court.. Community involvement is very important as a member of the legal profession and within Asheville.  I served as the Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Asheville, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Education, Chairman of the Soqua District of the Daniel Boone Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and on the Asheville Buncombe Youth Soccer Association Board of Directors.  I currently serve on the Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation Board, the Buncombe County Schools Foundation Board and is a member of the Harry C. Martin American Inn of Court.

I am a North Carolina Board Certified Workers' Compensation Specialist and have been an attorney in North Carolina for more than 40 years. My partner S. Janson Grimes, now retired, and I founded the law firm, Grimes and Teich, in 1979. With the later addition of attorney Scott M. Anderson, we became Grimes Teich Anderson LLP.  To help best serve our clients, our North Carolina and South Carolina personal injury and disability firm has 8 offices in the mountains and the upstate. Our mission has always been to help protect the rights of the injured whether they have been hurt or killed on the job, in car wrecks or in other types of accidents, or because of bad drugs and defective products. We represent clients with social security disability claims and clients with employment law issues including, but not limited to, discrimination and FMLA concerns. Grimes Teich Anderson also represents veterans with veterans' law issues.

David Gantt is an Asheville based Social Security Disability and Workers’ Compensation Lawyer. He has over 30 years of experience representing injured and disabled clients throughout western North Carolina. At the David Gantt Law Office in Asheville, he offers clients knowledgeable and compassionate representation as he pursues compensation and benefits for workers' compensation, Social Security disability, and personal injuries.. Though he is a Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation, his primary focus is in the area of disability and acquisition of Social Security Disability Benefits for clients eligible for assistance, despite being denied those benefits by the government.  David also represents people who have been catastrophically injured in accidents and on the job through every aspect of those types of cases. Call David Gantt for your FREE CONSULTATION today.

Daniel graduated from the University of South Carolina Honors College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, Daniel served on the Editorial Board of the South Carolina Law Review and received the CALI Award for Legal Drafting.. After graduating law school and practicing in South Carolina, most recently as a partner with a litigation defense firm in Columbia, Daniel joined our Asheville office as a partner, and his primary area of practice continues to be workers' compensation defense. He is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina.. Daniel was designated a Medicare Set-Aside Consultant Certified by the International Commission on Health Care Certification. He was certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification.. Daniel has been included in Best Lawyers in America for Workers' Compensation from 2010 to 2014. He was also chosen by his peers to be listed as a “Rising Star” in the South Carolina Edition of Super Lawyers and has earned the highest (AV-Rated) ranking awarded by Martindale-Hubbell.. He is author of the article 2007 South Carolina Workers' Compensation Reform Act: An Overview, published in South Carolina Lawyer magazine, and is co-author of the treatise Beard, Poteat, Lamar, Sumwalt, Hayes, The Law of Workers' Compensation Insurance in South Carolina, Fifth Edition, published by the South Carolina Bar.

Dale joined Van Winkle in 1997. He practices in the area of civil litigation, counseling and representing the firm’s clients on issues arising in professional malpractice defense, personal injury, wrongful death, property damage, workplace accidents, and insurance coverage disputes. With the area’s rapidly increasing Spanish-speaking population, Dale’s fluency in Spanish is a unique asset the Firm offers to its clients.

Christopher B. "Chris" Reinhardt is a native and life long resident of North Carolina. He is a second generation attorney, his father being an accomplished real estate attorney in Durham, North Carolina. Chris was admitted to practice in 2003, North Carolina and has practiced in the Asheville area since being admitted.. Community:. Chris is currently the Legal Counsel for Daniel Boone Council of the Boy Scouts of America serving all of the 14 western most counties of North Carolina. Chris is a Past-President of the Brevard College Alumni Advisory Board, which he has been a member of from 2004-2014. He also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy at Brevard College for eight years. In 2008, Chris was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for Brevard College. He is a member of First Presbyterian Church of Asheville. Chris has been an avid supporter of the Boy Scouts of America, being an Eagle Scout himself.. Personal:. While in law school at the University of North Carolina, Chris met Rebecca Johnston Reinhardt who was from Asheville and became a partner with the firm Roberts & Stevens, P.A. in Asheville.  Chris and Rebecca married shortly after law school, had two daughters, and lived together in Asheville until Rebecca lost her fight with brain cancer in the Spring of 2018.  With the support of friends, family and the church, school and legal community, Chris and the girls are coping and adapting to a new way of life and work.

Allan Tarleton has practiced law in Asheville since 1980.  For the last 20 years he has concentrated his practice in the fields of healthcare litigation in the state Superior Courts and workers’ compensation litigation before the North Carolina Industrial Commission and appeals before the state’s appellate courts.. Allan has spent his professional career representing hospitals and other healthcare providers, small and large businesses, and ordinary people.  He has obtained favorable results in jury trials, administrative hearings, and appeals and has proven to be an effective negotiator before trial and in many cases before suit is even filed.. Allan attended undergraduate school at Wake Forest University , graduating cum laude with a B. A. degree in English in 1974.  While at Wake Forest , he participated in studies in Venice , Italy .  He was a staff writer and city editor for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington (NC) Daily News before returning to Wake Forest for law school, whence he graduated in 1980.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Asheville and surrounding areas.