Jeffrey P. Gray is Of Counsel with Bailey & Dixon, LLP in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he concentrates in administrative and regulatory law, occupational and professional licensing, trial and appellate advocacy, and state government and legislative lobbying. He currently serves as legal counsel to four occupational boards, including the State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators, and as hearings counsel to one. Of the fifty-six occupational and professional licensing boards in North Carolina, he has served thirteen in one legal capacity or another in his career. Prior to entering private practice, Gray served as Special Assistant to the Attorney General, then as an Assistant Attorney General and Law Enforcement Liaison in the Criminal Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice. He obtained his B.S. degree in 1981 from Western Carolina University (cum laude) and his J.D. in 1985 from Campbell University School of Law. He will be talking about his 2021 article in the Campbell Law Review, “In Defense of Occupational Licensing: A Legal Practitioner’s Perspective.” Much of the material throughout his article derives from his extensive experience in the realm of occupational licensing and over thirty years of legal practice.