D. Jay Davis, Jr. is a partner at Clement Rivers, LLP, where he chairs the Professional Liability section and the Business Litigation practice group and serves on the firm’s Management Committee. He focuses his practice on professional liability, medical and legal malpractice, commercial litigation, nursing home and assisted living, business, and real estate litigation.

Jay has earned recognition from many of his peers for his defense work. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and the Legal Elite of the Lowcountry, where he was named the top professional liability lawyer in Charleston in 2023.

Jay is a frequent speaker on litigation and trial practice, insurance defense, trial techniques, artificial intelligence, risk management, and malpractice issues. He has presented to or on behalf of organizations including the South Carolina and North Carolina chapters of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the South Carolina Medical Association, the South Carolina Hospital Association, the Medical University of South Carolina, Roper Hospital, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the American Law Firm Association, and the National Business Institute. His articles have been published in the South Carolina Law Review, The Professional Lawyer, For the Defense, the Federation of Regulatory Counsel Quarterly Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation, The Defense Line, and publications of the South Carolina Dental Association.

From Charleston, Jay graduated from Porter-Gaud and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina, and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He has been actively involved in the Charleston community, including past service on the Roper Hospital Board of Directors, the Charleston Day School Board of Directors, the South Carolina Maritime Foundation, the Lowcountry Children’s Museum, the American Heart Association, and the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Board of Economic Advisers.