18 May 2026
Baker Donelson Adds Veteran Trial Attorney G. Gray Wilson to Winston-Salem Office
"Baker Donelson welcomes veteran trial attorney G. Gray Wilson as a shareholder in its Winston-Salem office. He will focus on professional liability and medical malpractice litigation within the firm's health care litigation practice."
Mr. Wilson brings decades of experience defending health care providers, professionals, and businesses in complex, high-exposure litigation. His practice focuses on professional liability and medical malpractice matters involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and significant damages claims. He is particularly known for defending physicians, surgeons, and medical practices across high-risk specialties and has more recently been involved in numerous business disputes representing both defendants and plaintiffs.
He joins Baker Donelson as a shareholder and was previously with Nelson Mullins.
Mr. Wilson is regularly entrusted with matters requiring an understanding of complex medical and technical issues, extensive expert testimony, and sustained jury trials. He has defended cases involving allegations of diagnostic failures, surgical complications, and standards-of-care disputes, often in matters seeking multimillion-dollar recoveries. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, which honored him with the J. Robert Elster Award for Professional Excellence. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and has been named The Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants Lawyer of the Year in Winston-Salem. His other honors include induction into Business North Carolina's Legal Elite Hall of Fame and recognition from North Carolina Lawyers Weekly with its Power List Award and Leaders in the Law Award.
Outside his practice, Mr. Wilson serves as a Forsyth County Commissioner and has held numerous leadership roles with the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina State Bar, including service as president of both organizations. He is the author of the two-volume treatise North Carolina Civil Procedure, now in its fourth edition. Mr. Wilson earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he served on the Legal Research Board, and his B.A., cum laude, from Davidson College.