D. Jay Davis, Jr.

Partner
Email: jdavis@ycrlaw.com | Phone: 843-720-5406

D. Jay Davis, Jr. is chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group and serves on its management committee. He focuses his practice primarily in the areas of professional liability, business, commercial, and real estate litigation.  He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the Charleston School of Law where he teaches litigation.

He has also been a frequent speaker and presenter on issues related to litigation and insurance defense including trial, lender liability, cross-examination, risk management, and malpractice issues. He has presented to the South Carolina Medical Association, The South Carolina Hospital Association, the Medical University of South Carolina, Roper Hospital, and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association. He has also served as a lecturer on behalf of the National Business Institute.

His articles have been published in the South Carolina Law Review, The Professional Lawyer, For the Defense: The Magazine for Insurance and Corporate Counsel, the Federation of Regulatory Council Quarterly Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation, and The Defense Line.

Additional Biographical Information

Practice groups

Admitted to practice

  • South Carolina, 1996
  • U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1996
    • South Carolina Law Review, Associate Editor
  • University of Georgia, B.A., 1988
  • College of Charleston, M.P.A., 1993

Memberships

  • American Board of Trial Advocates
    • Associate
  • South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys
    • Executive Board
  • Defense Research Institute
    • Young Lawyers Subcommittee of the Toxic Tort Committee, past vice-chair
  • American Law Firm Association
    • Health Care Steering Committee
    • Professional Liability Steering Committee
  • Charleston County Bar Association
  • South Carolina Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
    • Section on Business Law

Community Service (Past/Present)

  • South Carolina Maritime Foundation, Board of Directors
  • Low Country Children's Museum, Board of Directors
  • Chamber of Commerce, Board of Economic Advisors
  • Communities in Schools, Board of Directors

Articles / case studies

  • Multi-Week Dockets: A Pilot Project by D. Jay Davis, Jr. And Christine K. Toporek 

Contact Young Clement Rivers, LLP

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