H. Gerald Beaver

Founding 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.

East Carolina University

B.A.

University of North Carolina School of Law

J.D.

1969 - 1973

Founding Partner

Beaver Courie Law Firm

Current

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

2000

Prosecutorial Vindictiveness, Revisiting An Old Check on Overzealous Prosecution

The True Bill

1998

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

1996

Police Brutality, A Call to Arms

The Champion, Journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

1991

Best Lawyers in America in Criminal Law, White Collar Criminal Law, and Personal Injury

Best Lawyers

2017

1993-2017

AV Preeminent

Martindale Hubbell

2016

1982-2016

North Carolina Legal Elite

Business North Carolina

2016

2005-2016

North Carolina Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers

2016

2006-2016

Top 100 NC Trial Lawyers

The National Trial Lawyers

North Carolina State Bar

Member

Current

Cumberland County Bar Association

Member

Current

North Carolina Associates for Justice

Member

Current

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Member

Current

American Bar Association

Member

Current

North Carolina

North Carolina State Bar

Since 1973

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