M. Jay DeVaney

Jay DeVaney practices in the areas of commercial real estate, land use litigation, and legal malpractice defense.

Mr. DeVaney has lectured and written extensively on Real Property and Land Use Litigation and Commercial Real Estate for the American Bar Association, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the North Carolina Bar Foundation and other CLE providers on Real Property Litigation, Land Use Litigation and Planning, Condemnation, Title Insurance and Commercial Real Estate Development.

• Board Certified Specialist in Real Property Law - Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions by the North Carolina State Bar
• American College of Real Estate Lawyers - Board of Governors; Land Use/Environmental Committee, Chair
• American College of Mortgage Attorneys - Fellow
• North Carolina Bar Association - Real Property Section (Chair, 1982-1983), Board of Governors (1992-1995)
• American Bar Association - Real Property Probate and Trust Section, Foreclosures and Related Remedies Subcommittee (Former Chair); Subcommittee of Lender Participations, Chairman; Real Property Financing Committee (1983-1987)
• Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law
• Outstanding Lawyers of America
• North Carolina "Super Lawyer" for Real Estate Law
• Elite Lawyers of North Carolina

• 45 Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers
  Columbia, SC – Forty-five Nexsen Pruet attorneys will be included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. The publication also ranks Nexsen Pruet #1 in eleven practice areas in South Carolina and three in North Carolina.
• Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"
• Seven Attorneys Named Among N.C.’s “Legal Elite”
• 38 Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Names To "The Best Lawyers in America 2008"
  Thirty-eight attorneys from Nexsen Pruet, LLC were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 – including six who have now earned the honor for 10 years or more.
• Seven Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"
• 6 Attorneys Named Among NC's "Legal Elite"
  Business North Carolina magazine has named six attorneys from Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier’s Greensboro office to its “Legal Elite” listing, an honor bestowed by the publication on less than 5 percent of the state’s lawyers.
• 32 Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named to 2007 Edtion of "Best Lawyers in America"
  Thirty-two attorneys from Nexsen Pruet, LLC have been named to the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America – including six who have now earned the honor for 10 years or more.
• Six Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Named Among North Carolina's "Legal Elite"
  Business North Carolina magazine has named Six attorneys from Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier to its list of the profession's "Legal Elite," an honor bestowed by the publication on just 3 percent of the state’s lawyers.
• Six Nexsen Pruet Lawyers Named Among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers"
  Six attorneys in the Greensboro office of Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, PLLC have been named among North Carolina's "Super Lawyers" in a Law & Politics publication survey.
• 5 Lawyers Named Among "Legal Elite" in Business North Carolina Survey
  Five Nexsen Pruet attorneys have been named among the 2005 "Legal Elite" in a survey by North Carolina Business magazine.
• Five Attorneys Named Among "Legal Elite" In Business North Carolina Survey of Attorneys
  Five attorneys from Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, PLLC have been named among the "Legal Elite" in a survey of more than 16,500 lawyers by Business North Carolina magazine.