Michael DeMayo
VerifiedAbout Michael DeMayo
Michael A. DeMayo, Esq. is the CEO and Managing Partner of DeMayo Law Offices, LLP, which he established on September 1, 1992. The firm has grown to over 140 legal professionals with three offices in Charlotte, Hickory, and Monroe, North Carolina. His team has helped over 132,000 individual clients and their families recover over $1 billion in total verdicts and settlements.
DeMayo's practice covers personal injury, workers' compensation, products liability, automobile and tractor-trailer accidents, catastrophic personal injuries, mass tort cases involving medical devices and dangerous pharmaceutical products, chemical exposure, brain injury, and wrongful death.
He is rated AV Preeminent (5.0 of 5.0) by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest professional rating achievable — and has been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for 12 consecutive years and to the American Association of Trial Lawyers Top 100 for nine consecutive years. He has also been named to the Nation's Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel and was a Charlotte Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 Businessman in 2003. His firm has been ranked Top 5% for customer satisfaction since 2014.
He is a founding member of the Mecklenburg Trial Lawyers Association and is active in the NCAJ President's Club, NCAJ Leaders Forum, the American Association for Justice (where he chairs the Marketing Committee), and the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums.
He earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill in 1990 and his undergraduate degree cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1987. He is admitted to the State Bar of North Carolina, the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Notable case results
Behzad "Al" Abedi was killed when stacked marble slabs fell on him at a Charlotte stone warehouse in 2019, and DeMayo Law Offices resolved his family's premises- and products-liability claims for $12 million.
An 8-year-old girl was left paraplegic by a spinal cord infarction after a recreation center failed to spot her backbend and waited about two hours to get her emergency care; the claim settled for $6 million, the largest personal injury settlement in North Carolina that year.
DeMayo Law attorneys Elizabeth G. Grimes and Michael A. DeMayo won a $3 million settlement for an elderly North Carolina man who was run over by another vehicle while standing beside his disabled car on a West Virginia roadside.
A 53-year-old pedestrian hit from behind by a box truck at about 35 mph and thrown more than 34 feet, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures, settled his claim for $2.5 million.
A commercial truck driver who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a double stack of unsecured pallets spilled onto her settled her North Carolina claim for $2.2 million.
A 30-year-old passenger was left tetraplegic after a speeding driver hit his stalled car on a South Carolina road, and Michael A. DeMayo stacked two liability policies and an umbrella policy to reach a $1.6 million settlement.
The estate of an Army paratrooper killed when a pickup truck turned left into his motorcycle near Fayetteville settled its wrongful-death claim for $1.5 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
