Jim Wall represents entrepreneurs and businesses in a wide array of transactions and governance issues. He has significant experience representing health care providers and other clients in the health care field including owners and managers of long-term care facilities, management service organizations, providers of clinical research and local management entities. He has extensive experience helping providers and MSOs navigate North Carolina’s corporate practice of medicine doctrine. He also has assisted health care entities address recapitalization and insolvency issues. Additionally, Jim assists executives in connection with their employment relationships, including negotiation of employment and separation agreements.
Prior to being a founding member of Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey PLLC, Jim founded and managed Wall Babcock LLP. Prior to that, Jim practiced as a partner with Kilpatrick Stockton in its corporate and health care departments. Earlier in his career, Jim was a shareholder and director of Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A. where he practiced in the firm’s corporate, health care and insolvency sections.
Jim is a 1986 graduate of the College of William and Mary, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national business honor society. He is a 1989 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
James D. "Jim" Wall
Awarded Practice Areas
Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Corporate Law Health Care Law
Awarded Practice Areas
Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Corporate Law Health Care Law
Biography
Locations
Education
- College of William & Mary, B.B.A., Accounting, graduated 1986
- University of Virginia, J.D, graduated 1989
Bar Admissions
Affiliations
- Young Lawyers Division - Executive Council, 1995-97
- Bankruptcy Law Section - Council, 1995-98; Treasurer, 1996-97
- Business Law Section - Member
- Health Law Section - Chair, 2014-15; Vice Chair, 2013-14; Council, 2008-2015
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
- Corporate Law, Greensboro (2012)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Law
- Health Care Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Corporate Governance Law
Special Focus:
- Finance
- Fraud and Abuse
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Physicians
- Practice Acquisition
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