Michael A. DeMayo - Charlotte, NC
Attorney at DeMayo Law Offices, LLP
Personal Injury Lawyers in Charlotte, NC
1211 E. Morehead St. Charlotte, NC 28204
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Charlotte Personal Injury Lawyer
Updated: 06/16/2026
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Consumer Protection
- Complex Mass Torts
Litigation: 100%
Attorney Information
Overview
Michael A. DeMayo is the founding and managing partner of DeMayo Law Offices, LLP (DLAW) and DeMayo Law Group, PLLC (exclusively focused on the Camp Lejeune Litigation). Since opening our Personal Injury, Consumer Protection, and Complex Mass Torts Law Practices over thirty years ago, his vision statement has been squarely focused on putting the needs and interests of our clients and team members first. He explains that he had a very simple and understandable vision for his plaintiffs’ law firm from day one, “Put our clients’ and team members’ interests first, and everything else will follow!”
Mr. DeMayo understands that the world is a rapidly changing place and that technology coupled with social media drives both perception and “reality” for much of our society. Often justice and equality does not balance out for individuals when in competition against powerful corporate interests, and sometimes the only option for many is to turn to DLAW as the equalizer. DLAW’s role and responsibility is holding powerful industries and corporations accountable to individuals for the harm they cause. Our mission is to represent individuals and family members that have suffered serious catastrophic personal injuries and significant economic loss or have been killed as a result of the negligence and damage that it has caused. Mr. DeMayo reminds us that it’s a right that we all have to live free from harm and injury. Moreover, when big companies put “profits over people”, bad things happen! DLAW ensures that we hold those that cause the harm accountable because after all: “A right without a remedy is just a suggestion™!”
Mr. DeMayo understands that everyone that comes to DLAW is a victim: individuals injured in serious automobile accidents or tractor trailer cases, catastrophic personal injuries, groups of people harmed by medical devices, dangerous and defective pharmaceutical products, chemical exposure cases, brain injury and wrongful death lawsuits, workers’ compensation claims, mass tort litigation, and more. Mr. DeMayo and DLAW have been recognized for their work in the Carolinas and across the Nation. Our unique team of dedicated attorneys, paralegals, and medical professionals have been consistently recognized as the leaders in Personal Injury and Consumer Law. Over the years, the DLAW team has grown to over 130 legal professionals. Our experienced team has helped over 132,000 individual clients and their families from across the United States recover over One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000.00) in total verdicts and settlements for their cases.
Our main office is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, but we have additional locations in Hickory and Monroe, NC as well as Columbia, South Carolina. We plan to open expansion offices in Eastern North Carolina in the near future. Additionally, DLAW and DeMayo Law Group, PLLC maintains established co-counsel and collaborative relationships with over 50 national and regional law firms across the country allowing us to assist individuals with their Mass Torts, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, and Camp Lejeune Cases in almost every jurisdiction across the country.
In addition to his many accomplishments and honors, Mr. DeMayo has also earned recognition and accolades throughout the region for his commitment to community service programs including his signature programs to combat underage drinking and driving, feeding the less fortunate, and numerous other charities and organizations. Mr. DeMayo has seen countless injuries and deaths due to drinking and driving collisions and is committed to trying to make the community a safer place.
In 2003, as a direct result of his personal experiences, Mr. DeMayo developed and initiated his own program: “Arrive Alive®”, an outreach program to educate teenagers about the dangers and consequences of underage drinking and driving. The firm has delivered its “Arrive Alive®! Don’t Drink and Drive” message to thousands of teens in the local areas the law firm has served for a number of years.
In conjunction with this initiative, the firm has also awarded over Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($650,000.00) in college scholarships to graduating high school seniors through the Michael A. DeMayo Arrive Alive Scholarship for the last 20 years. Every year, the firm awards fifteen $2,500 scholarships to students who create presentations or write essays on how to prevent underage drinking and driving. Through this scholarship program, DLAW and Mr. DeMayo aim to try to prevent accidents caused by underage drinking and driving by encouraging teenagers to make smart decisions.
Mr. DeMayo loves being a plaintiffs’ attorney. He can’t imagine doing anything else. He dreams of building a legacy firm that will thrive for generations into the future. Mr. DeMayo is a single parent to four very different young adults, and he enjoys the challenge of his family. He describes it as an “ever-changing dynamic of activity and personal interaction.” He believes that his personal life is a great training tool for his legal career and credits his resilience and perseverance to living with his lovely children. His daily experience with them requires creativity, adaptability, and an openness to problem solving with new and unique situations.
Mr. DeMayo and the trial lawyers at his firm hold numerous awards, memberships, qualifications, and certifications. Mr. DeMayo and all the of the North Carolina lawyers at DeMayo Law Offices are licensed in the Eastern Federal District Court.
Awards and Honors
Honors
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” by the AATL
- Rated AV Preeminent (5.0 of 5.0 Stars)
- Named the Nation’s Top One Percent for several years by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel
- Named as a top 100 Trial Lawyer for the past 12 consecutive years by the National Trial Lawyers
Education
Legal Education
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University of North Carolina School of Law,
Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, 1990
J.D.
Honors: Wake Forest University Alumni Council, Member
Honors: Wake Forest University Executive Board
Honors: Member of the UNC- Chapel Hill School of Law
Honors: Board of Directors for UNC-School of Law
Honors: Current select member of the Dean’s Committee on Trial Advocacy
Honors: Davidson Parents Council
Honors: Cornell Parents Board
Honors: USC Marshall School of Business Parents Council
Honors: Order of the Barristers
Non Legal Education
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Wake Forest University,
Winston Salem,
NC,
USA, 1987
B.A.
Honors: cum laude
Major: Politics
Current Employment Position(s)
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CEO & Managing Partner
Past Positions
- Karney & Karney, 1991 - 1992
References
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Charlotte Copy Data
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Putney Bowes
Languages
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Spanish
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English (Primary)
Classes and Seminars
- Frequent speaker and presenter at: AAJ, NCAJ, Trial Lawyers Summit, M&L, and MMG Seminar Co.
Published Works
Articles
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Co-author of Carolina Injury Law: A Reference for Accident Victims
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 1991
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 1991
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina, 1991
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina, 1991
- United States Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- AAJ President's Club (Member)
- AAJ Eagle Club (Member)
- AAJ (Chairman, Lawyer's Marketing Committee)
- Academy of Trial Lawyers Association (Sustaining Member)
- North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (Benefactor)
- Mecklenburg County Trial Lawyers Association (Founding Member)
- Pro Humanitate Society of Wake Forest University
- North Carolina Academy (Member, Media Committee)
- North Carolina Bar Association (Member)
- American Bar Association (Member)
- Mecklenburg County Bar Association (Member)
- Bobbitt Inns of Court (Member)
- North Carolina State Bar (Member, Brain Injury Foundation)
- Wake Forest Alumni (Member, Leadership Committee)
- University Gift Club (Leadership Counsel)
- YMCA James H. Harris Society (Member)
- UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law (Member, Chancellor's Club)
- AAJ, Eagles PAC
- Leaders Forum Patron
- AAJ member
- NCAJ Leaders Forum
Fraternities and Sororities
- Pi Sigma Alpha
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