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Jessie C. Fontenot Jr. 
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Senior Associate
phone 336-725-8688
fax (336) 725-8867
email Email Me

Jessie is a litigator with experience assisting clients in a wide range of industries, including banking, mortgage lending, trucking, home appliance, construction, and insurance. He seeks out creative, aggressive strategies to maximize his clients' chances of success, and has obtained favorable results for clients through both traditional trial practice and alternative dispute resolution.

Representative engagements include:

  • Several engagements representing a national trucking company in accident cases involving serious and catastrophic injuries;
  • Successful representation of a national appliance manufacturer in product liability litigation involving issues of carbon monoxide poisoning and mold sickness;
  • Successful representation of a national manufacturer providing products to law enforcement in multiple product liability lawsuits involving complex issues of medical causation requiring aggressive use of expert witnesses;
  • Successful representation of a financial institution in various disputes, including construction disputes with general contractors, lender liability disputes with borrowers, among others;
  • Successful representation of a pharmaceutical company in a complex advertising dispute with a competitor; and
  • Successful representation of an employer in an employee fraud matter involving nearly a million dollars in misappropriated funds.
Areas of Practice:
Product Liability Litigation/Business Litigation/Financial Services
Bar Admissions:
Georgia, 2001
Education:
Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, 2001
J.D.
Honors: Vice President, Black Law Students Association
Law Review: Law and Contemporary Problems, Managing Editor


University of Oklahoma, 1998
B.B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: Oklahoma Board of Regents Scholar
Honors: President's Leadership Class
Honors: President, National Student Business League
Major:  Marketing


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Black Law Students Association
Vice President


Past Employment Positions:
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Atlanta GA, Attorney, 2001 - 2009


Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Atlanta GA, Summer Associate, 1999


Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Atlanta GA, Summer Associate, 2000


The Marketing Arm, Dallas, TX, Marketing Intern, 1998


University of Oklahoma Athletic Department, Norman, OK, Sports Marketing Assistant, 1997


Key Practice Areas Office Location

Strauch Fitzgerald & Green
118 So. Cherry Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Toll Free: 866-941-2401
Local: 336-793-4204
Fax: 336-725-8867