Jonathan E. Hall
Partner
In litigation, there is no substitute for trial experience. It makes you a better lawyer and gives you credibility when advising clients in high stakes disputes.
Jonathan Hall is an accomplished trial attorney with deep experience defending product liability claims against industrial and durable medical equipment manufacturing companies. He is the Office Managing Partner for the firm’s Raleigh office and leads the firm’s growing team across the Carolinas and Virginia.
He has an extensive range of litigation experience throughout the Carolinas, Virginia and nationwide involving complex commercial disputes and products liability law. Jonathan has tried dozens of cases to jury verdicts involving contract disputes, industrial accidents, fatal fires, health care professional and legal malpractice, employment disputes, auto and trucking accidents, defective products, and toxic torts.
Experience
- Secured a low five-figure jury verdict, significantly below the plaintiff's eight-figure pretrial settlement demand, in a traumatic brain injury case on behalf of an employee of a large health care company, despite conceding negligence.
- Led trial team in first all-remote video bench trial conducted in federal court in North Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic, in case arising out of the alleged breach of a services agreement.
- Obtained summary judgment for all defendants in a wrongful death case involving an industrial accident at a local research university.
- Secured federal appellate victory for homeowner to operate their 15,000-square-foot home as a vacation rental in compliance with North Carolina's amended zoning and land use laws after contentious, multiyear litigation.
- Secured jury verdict in federal court for substantially less than pre-suit offers and successfully challenged competence of plaintiff's expert economist in case involving a wrong-way collision on an interstate highway.
- Reached favorable settlement in breach of contract claim on behalf of international bakery distributor after federal jury failed to reach verdicts on claims from two former delivery route owners.