Jay worked as a corporate auditor at Regions Bancshares prior to entering law school. After law school, Jay served as law clerk to Justice H. Mark Kennedy on the Supreme Court of Alabama. He then entered private practice with Beasley Allen. Jay has practiced law at Beasley Allen since 1997, focusing in the areas of consumer fraud and complex commercial litigation. The majority of the cases Jay handles involve life insurance, reinsurance agreements, annuities, telecommunications issues, self-insured health plans and hospital pricing practices. Of the numerous cases he has tried, four returned jury verdicts in excess of $1 million. The verdicts in three of these cases were as follows: $1.88 million against Alfa Life Insurance Company, $3.6 million against Liberty National Insurance Company, and $12.4 million against Horace Mann Life Insurance Company.

Jay spends most of his time focused on class actions. He has now or has handled a digital cable class against Charter Communications; several nationwide classes against major banks and insurance underwriters involving the sale of annuities; several classes against failed self-insured health insurance plans; and classes against major hospital chains for overcharging uninsured patients. Jay is currently lead counsel in five separate national class actions in the federal courts of Alabama, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. He is lead counsel in New York for a national class of insureds against a large insurance company who overcharged juveniles as adult smokers. He is lead counsel in a class against the fifth largest hospital chain in the United States for price gouging. Additionally, he heads up a class action against Blue Cross Blue Shield for illegally reducing payments to dentists.

Jay is serving as co-lead counsel representing the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, in a multi-district litigation (MDL) proceeding in Memphis, Tennessee. The case involves the financial collapse of three separate major malpractice carriers against General Reinsurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Milliman USA, their board members, key executives and several offshore entities. The litigation stems from a complicated reinsurance scheme that drove the three companies into receivership, leaving thousands of policyholders uninsured and exposed to claims. Damages exceed $700 million.

Jay has represented over 40,000 clients at Beasley Allen resulting in settlements valued at over $300 million. As in the past, he continues to guide global settlements nationwide for clients.

Jay has spoken and written frequently on consumer fraud issues and especially class actions. He has authored several articles that were published in the Alabama Trial Lawyers Journal. He serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors for the Alabama Association for Justice and is a member of the Business Torts and Insurance Section of AAJ.

Jay is married to the former Jennifer Woodman of Montgomery, and they have two children. He attends church at St. James United Methodist Church in Montgomery, where he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees. He is an advisory member of the William O. Nowell Scholarship Fund of Auburn University-Montgomery. Jay is also active in fundraising and volunteer work for the Young Life Christian Organization and Feeding the Multitudes Ministry.