Jenny M. McKellar

Associate

Areas of Experience

Services
Business Litigation
Condemnation
Financial Transactions Litigation
General Litigation
Plaintiff's Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Tort Litigation and Insurance
Industries
Banking
Insurance

Education

University of North Carolina, JD, 2005, with High Honors

Comments Editor, North Carolina Law Review

Order of the Coif

University of North Carolina, BA, 2002, with Highest Distinction

Phi Beta Kappa

Professional and Community Activities

Women's Network of Eastern North Carolina
North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys
District 7 Judicial District Representative for the North Carolina Bar Associations' Young Lawyer Division
Leadership Rocky Mount
Young Professionals Network of Rocky Mount
Tar River Civic Club, Board Member

Jurisdictions Licensed

130 S. Franklin St., Rocky Mount, NC 27804	t: 252.972.7060	\|	email
PO Box 353, Rocky Mount, NC 27802-0353	f: 252.972.7045	\|	vcard

Jenny has been an associate in the firm's litigation section since 2005 and practices in both federal and state court. While a large part of her practice focuses on representing insurance companies and their insureds in negligence actions, she has worked on a wide range of civil lawsuits, including fraud, wrongful death, construction, contract and land condemnation actions. Jenny has experience in all phases of litigation, including preparing pleadings and motions, conducting discovery, trying cases, and arguing in the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Representative Experience

City of Wilson Redevelopment Commission v. Boykin et al., 667 S.E.2d 282 (N.C. App. 2008) - We represented two of the owners of a house in Wilson, North Carolina which was being condemned by the City's Redevelopment Commission because it was "blighted and substandard" and located in a neighborhood with "very high crime rates." The Commission's expert witness, a real estate appraiser, testified that he thought the fair market value of the property was $45,000. One owner of the house testified that she thought the fair market value of the property was $85,000, and our client testified that the fair market value was $150,000. The jury returned a verdict of $170,000. The trial court and the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the verdict after it was voluntarily remitted by our clients to $150,000.

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Prior Legal Experience

Jenny joined Poyner Spruill in September of 2005 after clerking with the firm during the summer of 2004. She also served as a Law Clerk for Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Raleigh in 2003 and 2004.