About Vernon
Vernon Sumwalt is a attorney specializing in workers' compensation and appellate practice at The Sumwalt Group Workers' Compensation and Trial Lawyers in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been a member of the North Carolina State Bar since 1998. The firm, located at The Refinery, Fifth Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28208, focuses on workers' compensation, personal injury, wrongful death, industrial injuries. Social Security disability cases. Mr. Sumwalt earned his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1998. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami, obtained in 1994.
Since 2005, he has been a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law, and in 2014, he was certified as a Specialist in Appellate Practice. Throughout his career, Mr. Sumwalt has handled approximately 300 workers' compensation hearings and 120 appeals, primarily from cases he has tried. He has also represented clients in numerous cases before juries and courts of general jurisdiction in both North Carolina and South Carolina. His experience includes teaching 145 state and national classes for lawyers and other professionals. Authoring over 55 books, chapters, and articles on various aspects of workers' compensation and trial law. Mr.
Sumwalt has served in leadership roles within professional organizations, including as Past President of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (formerly the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers). He has chaired the workers' compensation sections of both the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® as the "Lawyer of the Year" for workers' compensation claimants in Charlotte in 2013, 2016, and 2018. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Sumwalt has contributed to various publications, including "The Law of Workers' Compensation in South Carolina" and "The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina." He has been a member of the Larson's National Workers' Compensation Advisory Board with LexisNexis® for over ten years. Mr. Sumwalt is admitted to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina, as well as before the U.S.
Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Federal Claims. U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, and the District of South Carolina.
