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Our legal team has a diverse, well rounded wealth of experience. We are ready to serve and meet your demands for high quality professional service. Our team currently includes two law clerks, two legal assistants, two private investigators, and the following two attorneys:

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We accept referrals from other counsel through the AAJ/IB/FJA networks and will co-counsel on a case by case basis. Referral inquiries are welcome.

Our legal is also actively involved in community affairs. Giving back to the community is a must at the Gregory Law Firm.

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Our American justice system, statutory, constitution, and decisionary, grew from the English system centuries ago. Back in the twelfth century, under King Henry II, England had the “common law”. It was established to avoid the unfairness, eccentricity, and inconsistencies of rules and penalties that sound alike, read alike, serve a common purpose, but have wide ranging interpretations, consequences, and results. The Common Law replaced the federal customs, Germanic customs and other customs and practices that were previously considered the wide body of the law applicable to all parts of England.

At the time, England was supreme among the European nations (England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia et.al). However, England had numerous legal provisions and many local governments, it lacked although the consistency of a common thread. France, by comparison, through King Louis IX, allowed each province of France (like States in the USA) to have its own laws and procedures after becoming part of France. Yet France (unlike America) lacked at the time an overriding body of laws binding on the whole.

King Henry II, sent out circuit judges to hear various civil (money and property) and criminal (violations of penal provisions subject to imprisonment) cases each year. During this process, there was a frustrating development in criminal trials. A person accused of a crime without a specific accuser, witnesses, or written evidence was held to a “Trial by Ordeal” if the trial judges had a subjective belief that the accused had a bad reputation. At trial, the accused, bound by hands/wrists and feet/ankles) was dropped into a body of water, including a river or lake. This “sink or swim” method of jurisprudence was premised on the belief that water was a pure (neutral) that would reject any fowl or unclean substance. This method was iconic: an innocent person would sink (likely drown) while a guilty person would float (likely swim away), leaving the fate (presumed “justice”) to God as happenstance and not people.

Since this system determining the fate of the accused was capricious and not based on facts fairly considered by any acceptable standards, guilty persons could avoid punishment by physical (not guilty determinative actions) while innocents could perish. King Henry didn’t like the capriciousness of the “sink or swim” method of jurisprudence. By the thirteenth century the trial by jury of twelve (later reduced in America to six unless the death penalty was involved) was eventually developed. Imagine a system awarding the guilty with an undeserved continued life while punishing an innocent by death!

Submitting issues of guilt or responsibility to a trial by a jury of your peers raised the stakes of fairness and resulted in a jurisprudence that continues to be refined to this day.

This trial by a jury of your peers, formerly all men but now, in America, extended to a jury of men and women, regardless of race, color, creed, or religious belief (later extended to civil (money trials) trials as well) is the hallmark of American Jurisprudence.

The Gregory Law Firm is a law firm of lawyers and legal assistants that handle civil and criminal trials. From the initial interview to case completion, we remain in a trial ready mode until the case is resolved. Despite our combined legal experience of over thirty five (35) years of legal experience, no case is viewed as a “been there, done that” experience. Each case presents a unique fact pattern arising from your factual and personal circumstances.

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Attorney Profiles

Personal profile for Rodney G. Gregory, Esquire

All trial attorneys at the Gregory Law Firm believe that there is a social purpose to tort law – accident and injury prevention. Our duty, as trial lawyers who are safety advocates, is to educate the public on the dangers that accompany preventable injuries and deaths. The following text provides a personal profile for Safety Advocate Rodney G. Gregory Esquire.

Rodney Glenn Gregory, Esq. has over thirty-two (32) years of civil and criminal trial litigation experience. He has been very successful in his representation of plaintiffs in civil matters and defendants in criminal matters.

Mr. Gregory is a veteran board member of The American Association for Justice (AAJ) and the Florida Justice Association (FJA). He is also a member of the Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court (1985), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits (1981), and the Middle an Northern Districts of the Federal Courts in Florida (1980). He is a past member of the boards of the Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association (President), National Bar Association (Director), Southern Trial Lawyers Association (Director), National Urban League (Trustee), Jacksonville Urban League and Jacksonville Urban League Foundation (Chairman), D.W. Perkins Bar Association (Officer) and the Jacksonville Chapter of the NAACP (Board Member and Counsel). Mr. Gregory recently became a member of the INJURYBOARD, a national network of personal injury attorneys spanning almost every State, bound together by a common set of values – professional competency, lasting client relationships, results outweigh rewards, and trial lawyers working for the greater good for all of us.

Mr. Gregory graduated from University of Illinois (B.S. Management), Washington and Lee University, The School of Law (J.D.), and Nottingham Trent University , The School of Law (LLM – Advanced Civil Litigation), Nottingham, England. He was an Associate, Assistant, and Lecturer at the innovative Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, Florida. He has lectured extensively on numerous legal topics across North America and abroad, including in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Gregory also has lengthy record of active involvement in community and civil affairs.

Mr. Gregory was a participant in the U.S. – Japan Bilateral Session on Law and Economics held in Tokyo, Japan from August 26, 1988 to September 2, 1988.

In June 1992, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Mr. Gregory to the Jacksonville Sports Development Authority (now known as the Jacksonville Sports and Entertainment Board) where he held several offices, including serving as its chairman. He was reappointed in 1994, 1996, and 2000. In July 1993, Jacksonville Mayor Ed Austin appointed Mr. Gregory to the Mayor’s Base Conversion and Redevelopment Commission, later renamed Cecil Field Conversion and Redevelopment Commission. He was also a member of the Board of Directors for the Northeast Florida Aids Network, Inc. (NFAN). He was twice appointed by separate Jacksonville Mayors to the General Counsel Legal Research Committee (1987 and 1991), and led or served on numerous hiring, recruitment, and selection committees.

Mr. Gregory has served in several significant administrative, supervisory, and financial positions, prior to and after law school, involving management of large groups of professional and volunteer associations and organizations over the last thirty (30) years, serving in the role of chairman, president, or as an executive officer.

He has also appeared extensively in the print and electronic media discussing litigation matters, high profile cases, community issues, and other matters of civic concern, including numerous appearances on Court TV, C-Span, PBS, CNN, Fox News, other national programs and on every local news operation.

Mr. Gregory has received numerous awards and certified recognition including placement in Who’s Who Worldwide Registry, Platinum Edition, and a registry of notable persons in Business, Arts, Education, Science, Professions, and Government. Mr. Gregory also has a profile on Linkedin, Injury Board, and Facebook.

Outside of the office, Mr. Gregory enjoys family time, fitness training, Jacksonville Jaguars, HBO/Showtime/ESPN Boxing, painting, reading, writing a novel, traveling, and mentoring youths and students.

Personal profile for Nah-Deh Simmons, Esquire

All trial attorneys at the Gregory Law Firm believe that there is a social purpose to tort law – accident and injury prevention. Our duty, as trial lawyers who are safety advocates, is to educate the public on the dangers that accompany preventable injuries and deaths. The following text provides a personal profile for Safety Advocate Nah-Deh Simmons, Esquire.

Nah-Deh Simmons is an Associate with the Gregory Law Firm. He is a litigator with several years of experience in both civil and criminal trials.

Mr. Simmons received his J.D. from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, a MBA with concentration in Criminal Justice from St. Leo University, Tampa, Florida, and his BA in Criminal Justice from Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia. He is also a Notary Public.

Mr. Simmons is an Adjunct Professor, Legal Studies Department at Keiser University, Jacksonville, Florida, and previously was an attorney in another private practice firm after serving with distinction as an Assistant Public Defender with the local Office of Public Defender for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, Florida. He also has experience as a Court Program Specialist with the State of Florida, Domestic Violence Division and interned at a family law firm preceded by an internship at the Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Office.

Mr. Simmons is a member of the Florida Bar Association, American Bar Association, Florida Justice Association, and American Association for Justice.

Mr. Simmons through the Gregory Law Firm recently became a member of The Injury Board, a national network of personal injury attorneys spanning almost every State, bound together by a common set of values – professional competency, lasting client relationships, results outweigh rewards, and trial lawyers working for the greater good.

Outside of the office, Mr. Simmons enjoys playing pick-up basketball, running, weight training, swimming, bowling, and reading. He also participates routinely through mentoring and volunteer programs with the YMCA.