Jess Davis

Jess Davis is an Atlanta medical malpractice lawyer; he’s represented people catastrophically injured by medical negligence in Georgia and almost every other state. Jess has received nearly every award and honor available to Georgia trial attorneys, has led numerous legal and community organizations, and is regularly called upon by the media for comment on complex or high-profile legal matters. His law firm has recovered more than $100,000,000 for its clients, including multiple eight-figure verdicts and settlements.

Before founding Davis Adams, LLC, Jess was a member of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group at Alston & Bird, a leading international law firm, where he focused primarily on antitrust litigation. He has published articles on the subject of predatory bidding and was a contributor to the preeminent antitrust law treatise, Antitrust Advisor, as well as the American Bar Association’s seven-volume In-House Counsel’s Essential Toolkit. Although his antitrust days are behind him, the complexity involved in those cases was ideal training for medical malpractice litigation.

Jess maintains a highly active and wide-ranging pro bono practice. He helped spearhead a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government related to the illegal detention of Vietnamese refugees; he’s successfully represented detainees at ICE’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., through the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative; and he’s provided free legal services to animal welfare organizations through the Animal Rescue Legal Society, which he founded in 2005 after participating in the emergency evacuation of animals from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Outside of his legal work, Jess has served on the Board of Directors for The Community School and Druid Hills Youth Sports, where he’s coached more than 30 seasons of youth baseball.

Before attending law school, Jess spent nearly a decade as a political aide and operative in Washington, DC, and in Georgia, including stints with the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and numerous political campaigns at every level, including presidential, congressional, state and mayoral races. He remains active in national, state, and local politics.