“One of the state’s top lawyers.”

ABOUT JESS DAVIS III

Jess Davis is a medical malpractice trial lawyer representing catastrophically injured clients in Georgia and throughout the United States. He has received virtually every  award and honor available to Georgia trial attorneys, has lead numerous legal and community organizations, is regularly called upon by the media for comment on complex or high profile legal matters, and the firm he helps lead has recovered more than $75,000,000 for its clients, including eight-figure verdicts and settlements.

Jess has litigated most every type of medical negligence cases, including failure to diagnose bacterial  infections such as meningitis and necrotizing fasciitis; failure to timely diagnose various types of cancer; surgical and anesthesiology errors resulting in severe neurological damage; IV infiltration and extravasation; birth injuries; failure to diagnose fatal, post-surgery conditions such as sepsis and peritonitis; medication errors; chiropractic malpractice resulting in stroke and other debilitating injuries; and negligent nursing home/assisted living care, including bedsores, resulting in serious injury or death.

Prior to founding Davis Adams, LLC, Jess was a member of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group at Alston & Bird, an Am Law 100 firm, where he focused primarily on antitrust litigation. He has published articles on the subject of predatory bidding, and was a contributor to the preeminent antitrust law treatise, Antitrust Advisor, as well as the American Bar Association’s seven-volume In-House Counsel’s Essential Toolkit.

Jess maintains a highly active pro bono practice. He is part of the team of lawyers that sued U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a California federal court for the illegal detention of Vietnamese refugees, an ambitious habeas class action that garnered national and international media coverage. He also represents detainees at ICE’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. in conduction with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. Jess also provides free legal service to animal welfare organizations through the Animal Rescue Legal Society, which he founded in 2005 after participating in the emergency evacuation of animals from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Outside of his legal work, Jess has served on the Board of Directors for The Community School and Druid Hills Youth Sports.

Before attending law school Jess spent nearly a decade as a political aide and operative in Washington, D.C. and in Georgia, including stints with the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and numerous political campaigns at every level, including presidential, congressional, state and mayoral races. He remains active in national, state and local politics, routinely chairing campaign committees for judges and progressive legislative candidates, and volunteering with a number of social justice organizations.

• Member, Executive Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Parliamentarian, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Chair, Education Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Chair, Membership Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Vice Chair, Education Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Amicus Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Membership Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Education Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Legislative Affairs Committee, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Champion Member, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Board of Directors, Civil Justice PAC
• Champion Member, Civil Justice PAC
• Member, State Bar of Georgia
• Member, Bench & Bar Committee, State Bar of Georgia
• Member, Board of Directors, DeKalb Bar Association
• Member, Southern Trial Lawyers Association
• Chair, Membership Committee, DeKalb Bar Association
• Member, DeKalb Bar Association

• Champion of Justice Award, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
• AV Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
• Lifetime Member, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Lifetime Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Georgia, The National Trial Lawyers
• Top 100 High Stakes Litigators
• Seal of Excellence, American Jurist Institute
• Georgia Super Lawyer
• Georgia Super Lawyer, Rising Star

Trial Themes in Technical Cases—Lessons Learned
Toxic & Mass Torts CLE, ICLE
Presenter—Atlanta, Ga., March 28, 2019

Watch Me CLE, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
Co-Chair, Savannah, Ga., January 27-28, 2017

Practical Tactics for Preparing and Neutralizing Experts
Jury Trial Tactics CLE, ICLE
Presenter—January 2016

Weekly Check-Up with Dr. Bruce Feinberg
WSB-TV News
Radio Interview, Atlanta, Ga., June 21, 2015

Legal Expert: Class Action Lawsuit Against VA Unlikely
CBS 46 News
Television Interview, Atlanta, Ga., June 11, 2014

Ross-Simmons v. Weyerhaeuser: The Supreme Court Rules on Antitrust Liability for Predatory Bidding Antitrust Section Newsletter, American Bar Association
Author—Fall 2006

Initial Investigation—Is the Case Viable?
Medical Malpractice from Start to Finish, National Business Institute
Presenter—Atlanta, Ga., March 7, 2019

Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention
Co-Chair, Atlanta, Ga., April 28-29, 2016

You’ve Got Until Midnight to Cash In These Lotto Tickets
11 Alive News
Television Interview, Atlanta, Ga., July 29, 2015

Strain on Jurors in Atlanta School Cheating Trial
WSB-TV News
Television Interview, Atlanta, Ga., November 14, 2014

Cases Concerning VA Medical Care Continue to Pile Up
WSB-TV News
Television Interview, Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 2014

Using Medical Experts to Add Value to Your Case
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association Essential Torts CLE
Presenter—Macon, Ga., February 2013