H. Gerald Beaver
Beaver Courie Law FirmFounding parter of Beaver Courie, Jerry Beaver is one of North Carolina's best known and well-respected trial attorneys. He has been listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for more than two decades and as one of North Carolina’s Legal Elite by North Carolina Business Magazine since the inception of the directory. Since 2003, he has been selected for recognition in the publication North Carolina Super Lawyers, a listing of lawyers made up of 5% of North Carolina lawyers selected by peer review. He has been listed as an AV lawyer by Martindale Hubble Legal Directory for twenty-five years. Jerry has been involved in many of the region’s most interesting and eventful criminal cases including representation of Robert Fulton Kelly in the notorious “Little Rascals” prosecution which resulted in the dismissal of more than 100 separate charges of child sexual abuse. Today, his criminal practice is largely concentrated in representation of clients charged with serious felony offenses in both State and Federal Court, including white-collar prosecutions, wire fraud, bank fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, sexual offenses, drug charges, and crimes of violence. For forty-three years, Gerald has participated in hundreds of personal injury, premises liability civil trials and settlements including his successful representation of Jackson “Rock” Pinckney, a Fort Bragg NC soldier against international film star Jean Claude Van Damme for personal injuries sustained during the filming of the motion picture “Cyborg,” a case featured on Court TV.
- White Collar Crime
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Free Consultation
- North Carolina
- North Carolina State Bar
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Founding Partner
- Beaver Courie Law Firm
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- East Carolina University
- B.A.
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- University of North Carolina School of Law
- J.D.
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- Best Lawyers in America in Criminal Law, White Collar Criminal Law, and Personal Injury
- Best Lawyers
- 1993-2017
- AV Preeminent
- Martindale Hubbell
- 1982-2016
- North Carolina Legal Elite
- Business North Carolina
- 2005-2016
- North Carolina Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyers
- 2006-2016
- Top 100 NC Trial Lawyers
- The National Trial Lawyers
- North Carolina State Bar
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- Cumberland County Bar Association
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- North Carolina Associates for Justice
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- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
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- American Bar Association
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- Strategy for Establishing Monell Liability Against Local Governmental Entities in § 1983 Litigation
- Effectively Dealing with “Trial by Ambush,” Combating Late Discovery in Criminal Cases
- Trial Briefs Journal of the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, Revisiting An Old Check on Overzealous Prosecution
- The True Bill
- Presumptive Testing for the Presence of Blood; Limiting the “Glow” of Misleading Expert Testimony
- Trial Briefs Journal of the N. C. Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Police Brutality, A Call to Arms
- The Champion, Journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
