Our Durham, NC Attorneys: Jessica E. Leaven

Jessica E. Leaven
Glenn, Mills, Fisher & Mahoney, P.A.
400 West Main Street, Suite 709
Post Office Drawer 3865
Durham, NC 27702
Phone: (919) 683-2135
Fax: (919) 688-9339
Email: jleaven@gmf-law.com

Jessica graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1997, and from the University of North Carolina School of Law, with honors, in 2001. In law school, she served on the North Carolina Law Review as a Staff Member and an Articles Editor. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Carl E. Stewart of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After clerkship, she worked first with a litigation firm in Asheville and then with Patterson Harkavy, LLP. She joined the Glenn, Mills, Fisher & Mahoney, P.A., in June 2009.

Jessica is active with the North Carolina Advocates for Justice where she currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Employment Law Section. She is also a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the Durham County Bar Association, the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, and the National Employment Lawyers Association.

Jessica has received the Kellie Crabtree Award from the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the Evan Mahaney Champion of Civil Liberties Award from the Western North Carolina Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Her areas of practice include employment law, personal injury, civil rights, and capital post-conviction cases.

Publications and Presentations:

• Keeping Employees Safe: Dealing with Workplace Injuries and Violence, co-authored with Valerie Johnson, presented at 2009 Festival of Legal Learning, UNC School of Law, February 7, 2009.
• Litigating Post-Conviction Claims of Police Misconduct, co-authored with Frank Goldsmith, presented at Criminal Masters in Advocacy, CLE, North Carolina Advocates for Justice Annual Convention, June 14, 2008.
• Co-Presenter, The Case of Glen Edward Chapman, Criminal Masters in Advocacy, CLE, North Carolina Advocates for Justice Annual Convention, June 14, 2008.
• Panelist, A Special Hearing on Capital Punishment: Perspectives at the Death House Door, North Carolina Legislative Building, Raleigh, NC, May 14, 2008.
• Column, The Ordeal of an Innocent Man, co-authored with Frank Goldsmith, NEWS & OBSERVER (Raleigh, NC), April 11, 2008, at A15, available at http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columns/story/1033006.html.
• Statutory Liens: How to Tell When the Money Belongs to Someone Else, and What to Do When it Does, co-authored with Leto Copeley, THE COURSE AND SCOPE (North Carolina Bar Association, Workers’ Compensation Section), April 2007, at 1, and presented at The Devil is in the Details: Hot Topics in Workers' Compensation Law, CLE, North Carolina Bar Association, February 16, 2007.

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