History

The original founder of the firm was Jay Thomas McCamic who was born July 1, 1894, in Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. Jay was the youngest of seven sons and one daughter born of Frances and Nathan McCamic.

Jay attended the public schools of Brooke County and upon graduation from high school was released by his father from further family duties so that he might seek a higher education.
Jay worked in steel mills until he had saved enough money to enter Washington and Jefferson College. He earned the highest marks ever achieved before at the college and graduated Summa Cum Laude.

World War I interrupted his education and he served in France as an infantry officer. While there he took an examination given by the Army and qualified for special duty as a student at the London School of Economics. While in London he met Joan Whitehead, the future Mrs. McCamic.

Upon discharge he returned to his educational pursuits at the Yale Law School, earning an editorship on the Yale Law Review. Upon graduating he entered the practice of law with his older brother Charles in Wheeling.

In 1926, seven years after meeting Joan Whitehead, he returned to England and he and Joan were married. Two sons, Jeremy C. McCamic and Jolyon W. McCamic, were born of this union and both became lawyers who practiced together with their father in the firm of McCamic & McCamic in Wheeling until his death in 1971. The firm of McCamic & McCamic continued and Jeffrey W. McCamic, son of Jolyon W. McCamic joined in 1983 and Jay T. McCamic, son of Jeremy C. McCamic joined the next year.

On January 1, 2003 the firm was reorganized and McCamic, Sacco & Pizzuti, PLLC was formed with members Jay T. McCamic, Jeffrey W. McCamic, Gary A. Sacco, and John J. Pizzuti. Jeremy C. McCamic and Jolyon W. McCamic continue to serve as of counsel members.