Goldberg Segalla added associate Phillip B. Jefferson to the law firm’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group in Raleigh.

Phillip focuses his practice on representing clients in a variety of workers’ compensation matters. He counsels and defends employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators throughout all stages of the workers’ compensation claims-handling process, from inception through resolution. Dedicated to improving workers’ compensation claims-handling strategies and practices, he has presented on various topics at continuing legal education (CLE) seminars for workers’ compensation carriers, employers, and fellow attorneys.

Phillip received his bachelor’s in Justice Studies from James Madison University before going on to earn his juris doctor from Campbell University School of Law. As a law student, he sat on the Campbell Law Leadership Council, served on the executive board of the Student Bar Association, and competed in many competitions as an advocate on Campbell Law’s Mock Trial Team. During law school, Phillip also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable J. Douglas McCullough of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, worked in the Office of the General Counsel for an international pharmaceutical company, and spent a summer in Superior Court as an extern with the Wake County District Attorney’s Office.