R. Bailey Melvin

Attorney R. Bailey Melvin is the founder and owner of The Melvin Law Firm in Greenville, North Carolina. A top-rated trial attorney with more than 27 years of legal experience, Mr. Melvin devotes his practice to advocating on behalf of clients throughout his area and all across the state who suffered an injury or lost a loved one as the result of misdiagnoses, hospital and surgical errors, birth injuries, failure to diagnose, medication errors, and other acts of medical malpractice.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Melvin has assisted hundreds of individuals and families that were adversely affected by sub-standard or negligent health care. He has earned reputation as a tenacious trial attorney and a devoted advocate who aggressively pursues the most favorable outcomes for his plaintiff clients. From his efforts, he has secured numerous substantial settlements and verdicts for those he has served, including more than a dozen awards well in excess of a million dollars, and he has gained the respect of his peers and clients alike.

Among his most notable accolades, Mr. Melvin was selected for inclusion into the Top 100 list by The National Trial Lawyers. He is also a member of the Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court and the Roscoe Pound Foundation, and he served as chair of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice's Professional Negligence Section in 2017.

A 1989 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with degrees in history and education, Mr. Melvin returned to his alma mater and obtained his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1992. The North Carolina Bar Association admitted him to practice that same year, and he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.