Even as a young kid, I was concerned with the ideas of fairness and justice. As I grew up, many of my heroes were gunfighters, superheroes, soldiers, and yes, lawyers: people who helped make sure that justice was served and fairness was something for everyone. I also learned that I loved to argue, and through theater productions, I knew I enjoyed thinking on my feet and was comfortable speaking to a crowd. All these things steered me toward the law.

I grew up in Oakwood, Virginia, and attended Whitewood High School. I then attended King College in Bristol, Tennessee, graduating with honors in 1994. During my last year at King, I was selected to participate in the Christian College Coalition’s American Studies Program in Washington, D.C. for a full semester, where I clerked for an attorney who practiced both criminal and civil law. I found this practice thrilling but also challenging, and knew it was something I wanted to pursue. During my final semester at King, I undertook a directed study of the life and career of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, whose tenure on the Supreme Court often overshadows his incredible work with the Civil Rights Movement. When asked how he’d like to be remembered, Marshall said, “I did the best I could with what I had.” His life exemplified someone who really approached the quest for justice with the knowledge that not every case is perfect, but the only option to achieve justice is to do your best if you think you’re right.

After I graduated from King, I immediately enrolled at Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I knew I made the right choice for a career after winning both the first year trial competition and the first year moot court competition. I went on in law school to serve on the Student Bar Association, worked as a teaching assistant for legal research and writing, and was a member of the Pace Environmental Law Moot Court Team and the National Moot Court Team, which won the regional competition in 1996 and advanced to the quarterfinals in national competition in 1997.

After I graduated from Wake Law in 1997, I immediately began practice with a firm in Raleigh that represented only insurance companies. Although I immediately began trying cases and handling appeals, I knew fairly early on that I was not really satisfied with that practice. I saw immediately the vast resources that injured people are forced to confront just to achieve fairness when dealing with insurance companies. After three years and numerous trials and appeals, I left that firm to begin working with a major personal injury firm in Raleigh which only represented injured people. After eight years at that firm, I had the opportunity to join the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in Durham.

Here at James Scott Farrin, I have the chance to focus my practice on severe and catastrophic injury cases, which are some of the most challenging cases imaginable. Often the victims of catastrophic injury are left physically, emotionally and mentally damaged and exhausted to the point that they simply cannot effectively fight back against the huge insurance companies and business interests that line up to settle their cases for far less than their actual value. That’s where we step in. Our firm is committed to standing as a guardian of the rights of the injured people not just of North Carolina, but of anywhere in the United States.

My wife, an immigration attorney, and our daughter all live in Raleigh. We are proud to call North Carolina home, and I am proud to work as an attorney for the injured. I am proud to work for the law offices of James Scott Farrin.