Gary V. Mauney



Practice Areas

  • Complex Civil Litigation; Business Torts and Investment Fraud; Professional Malpractice (Medical, Accounting, Auditing and Legal); Securities Litigation; Class and Shareholder Derivative Actions; Abusive Tax Shelters; Catastrophic Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Education

  • North Carolina State University (B.A., Business Management; B.A., Economics (with concentration in finance), 1988)
  • American University, Washington College of Law (J.D. 1995)

Clerkship

  • Law Clerk, N.C. Court of Appeals to the Honorable Jack Cozort and Donald L. Smith (1995)

Honors

  • Paul J. Sedgewick Scholar, American University, Washington College of Law 
  • Fellow, James G. Hanes Memorial Fund, North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership, 1990-1991
  • Listed in: Strathmore's Who's Who Registry (attorney), 2002-2003; The Contemporary Who's Who, 2003-2004 (attorney); Marquis Who's Who in American Law, 2007-2008
  • Student Body President, North Carolina State University, 1986-1987
  • President, University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), 1986-1987
  • Martindale-Hubbell "AV" (highest) Peer Review Rating

Bar Admission

  • North Carolina (1995)
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
  • U.S. District Courts (Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of North Carolina)

Professional Memberships

  • Mecklenburg County Bar Association
  • Mecklenburg Trial Lawyers Association
  • North Carolina Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • American Trial Lawyers Association
    • Co-Chair, Abusive Tax Shelter Litigation Group
  • North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers

Representative Reported Cases

  • Ryan v. University of North Carolina Hospitals, 128 N.C. App. 300, 494 S.E.2d 789 (1998)
  • Gaunt v. Pittaway, 135 N.C. App. 442, 520 S.E.2d 603 (1999)
  • Bailey v. State, 353 N.C. 142, 540 S.E.2d 313 (2000)
  • Wilkerson v. Norfolk Southern R.R., 151 N.C. App. 332, 566 S.E.2d 104 (2002)
  • Coffman v. Roberson, 153 N.C. App. 618, 571 S.E.2d 255 (2002)
  • Keeter v. KPMG, et al., 2005 WL 5369543 (N.D.Ga. 2005)
  • Burgess v. Campbell, 642 S.E.2d 478 (N.C. App. 2007)

Representative Current or Formerly Filed Cases

  •  Larkey-Wrigley, LLC v. Commercial Defeasance, LLC, Case No. 07-376     (U.S.D.C., W.D.N.C. 2007)(defeasance of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities "CMBS" loan/putative class action)
  • Eberdt v. Quellos Group, LLC, et al., Case No. 06-820 (U.S.D.C., M.D.N.C 2006)(investment fraud/abusive tax shelter/putative class action)
  • Smith v. Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, Case No. 05-187 (U.S.D.C., M.D.N.C. 2005)(ERISA class action)
  • Stevens v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co., Case No. 04-2615 (N.C. Sup. Ct. 2004)(policyholder class action)
  • Keeter v. KPMG, LLP, et al., Case No. 04-3759 (U.S.D.C., N.D.Ga. 2004)(investment fraud/abusive tax shelter)
  • Hutchens v. McGee Corp., Case No. 04-1007 (N.C. Sup. Ct. 2004)(workplace accident resulting in plaintiff's paralysis)
  • Blue Rhino v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Case No. 01-4733 (N.C. Sup. Ct. 2001)(auditor malpractice)
  • Walls v. Int'l Paper Co., Case No. 00-528 (U.S.D.C., M.D.N.C. 2000)(industrial explosion and fire/wrongful death)

Publications/Seminars Taught

  • FLIP, OPIS, BLIPS and COBRA: Litigating Tax Shelter Cases for Plaintiffs in the Age of ENRON (ATLA Winter Convention, 2005)
  • FLIP, OPIS, and BLIPS: Current Issues in Tax Shelter Litigation From the Taxpayer Plaintiff's Perspective (Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, July/August 2004, Vol. 17 No. 6)
  • Recent Issues in Discovery: The Hulse Decision and the Application of the Attorney-Client Privilege to Interrogatory Responses (The Litigator, March 2004)
  • Howerton v. Arai Helmet Ltd.: The N.C. Court of Appeals Confirms Adoption of the Daubert Methodology (The Litigator, October, 2003)
  • Mastering the Trial Notebook in North Carolina (North Carolina Business Institute 2003)
  • Advanced Civil Discovery for the Litigation Paralegal in North Carolina (North Carolina Business Institute 2000)
  • North Carolina's RICO Act , Leveraging Your Practice Through Business Torts (NCATL CLE seminar, 1998)

Civic Activities

  • Member, Board of Trustees, North Carolina State University, 1986-1987
  • North Carolina State University Alumni Association

Hobbies: Politics, Astronomy/Physics, Charlotte Bobcats basketball

Office Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Phone: (704) 347-8990

Fax: (704) 347-8929