James M. Dedman IV

Practice Areas

• Tort and Personal Injury
• Transportation
• Subrogation
• Drug & Medical Device
• Toxic Torts
• Banking
• Bankruptcy
• Commercial Foreclosures
• Appellate
  

Background

Jim Dedman is a partner in GWB′s Charlotte office.  Jim joined GWB in 2006 after moving from Beaumont, Texas, where he had practiced for a number of years.  Jim is an experienced litigator with extensive experience in handling complex personal injury and business litigation.  Jim focuses his practice on transportation law, torts and insurance practice, drug and medical device litigation, toxic tort litigation, products liability and banking litigation. 

Jim′s experience ranges from having defended a major pharmaceutical company in state and federal courts concerning its manufacture of diet drugs to defense of a Class I railroad in personal injury matters to representation of lenders in foreclosure and debt collection matters.  Jim is experienced in complex and comprehensive discovery having deposed hundreds of fact witnesses, physicians, medical specialists and experts.

Jim regularly speaks on topics such as use of social media in litigation and is on the firm′s Technology Committee.  Jim brings a diverse legal background to the table being licensed in, and having practiced in, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina and the Pennsylvania MDL 875 (Asbestos).

Jim is also the founder and editor of Abnormal Use (http://abnormaluse.com/) a popular products liability blog named by the American Bar Association as one of the top 100 legal blogs for the past two years running.  In 2011, Jim was recognized as an "Emerging Star" by Super Lawyers.

Education

• J.D., Baylor University School of Law, 2002
• B.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Professional Associations & Memberships

• American Bar Association
• National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
• Defense Research Institute
• North Carolina Bar Association
• Mecklenburg County Bar Association
  

Honors and Awards

• Former Briefing Attorney, The Hon. Eva M. Guzman, Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston, Texas

James M. Dedman, IV

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Current News

• February 14, 2013 - Gallivan, White & Boyd Blog Makes ABA's Cooperstown - SC Lawyers Weekly, December 17, 2012
• January 4, 2013 - Product Liability Blog: Abnormal Use Selected to ABA Journal's BLAWG 100
• April 5, 2012 - Gallivan, White & Boyd P.A. Attorneys Named To Super Lawyers 2012
  

Support Staff

• Secretary
• Paralegal
  

Notable Cases

• City of Cayce v. Norfolk Southern Ry. Co., 391 S.C. 395, 706 S.E.2d 6 (2011)
  
• In re Baptist Hosps. of Southeast Tex., 172 S.W.3d 136 (Tex. App. - Beaumont 2005, orig. proceeding) 
• Aetna Health of the Carolina, et al, v. Piedmont Endocrinology Medical Associates, P.A., 713 S.E. 2d 792 (Table) (N.C. Ct. App. 2011).

Articles and Publications

• Author and Editor, Abnormal Use: An Unreasonably Dangerous Products Liability Blog
• Contributor, North Carolina Law Blog
  
• Searching for the Online Truth on Plaintiffs by James M. Dedman, IV, In-House Defense Quarterly, Spring 2009
• Four Suggestions for Lawyers' Social Media Usage, e-News Technology Newsletter (June 2010)
• At Daggers Drawn: The Confederate Flag and the Public School Classroom - A Case Study of a Broken First Amendment Formula, Baylor Law Review, October 2001
• Cybersleuthing Plaintiff's Retained Testifying Experts, DRI's Trials and Tribulations, December 2010

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 2002
• South Carolina, 2002
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2003
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern,Western and Eastern Districts of Texas, 2003
• U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2007
  
• North Carolina, 2007
• U.S District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, 2009
• U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina, 2009
• MDL 875, In Re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), U.S. District for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2011