About Nicole Thompson
Nicole Thompson is the Managing Attorney of Farah & Farah's Waycross, Georgia office, where she focuses primarily on plaintiffs' auto accident matters. Senior partner Chuck Farah has noted that she 'consistently ranks as a top pre-litigation attorney,' with strong outcomes secured for injured clients during the pre-suit phase.
Thompson began her legal career in Michigan, where she was admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. After moving east, she joined Farah & Farah as a case manager out of the firm's Jacksonville office. Once admitted to the State Bar of Georgia, she began practicing as a personal injury attorney first from the firm's Valdosta office, then moving to lead the Waycross office.
Thompson earned her B.S. in Political Science from the State University of New York and her J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, where she made the Dean's List and received two book awards for the highest grades in her classes. She is admitted to the State Bar of Georgia and the State Bar of Michigan, and is a member of the Georgia Justice Association and the Florida Justice Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Farah & Farah
These results are credited to Farah & Farah. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A federal jury in Jacksonville found for Judith Berger, a forty-year smoker with end-stage COPD, on all claims against Philip Morris USA in September 2014. It awarded $6,250,000 in compensatory damages and $20,760,000.14 in punitive damages. The trial court set aside the fraud claims and the punitive award, but the Eleventh Circuit reinstated them in 2018 and held in 2021 that the punitive award was not unconstitutionally excessive.
A federal jury in Jacksonville found that cigarettes made by R.J. Reynolds were a legal cause of a Florida man's death from lung cancer in 1996. It awarded his widow $5.9 million in compensatory damages and assigned 27.5 percent of the fault to him, which produced a judgment of $4,277,500. In October 2014 the Eleventh Circuit reversed over the exclusion of evidence of his alcohol use and remanded for a new trial, and the case settled on undisclosed terms in January 2015 before any retrial.
A Duval County jury returned a $1.83 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in the wrongful-death claim of Kenneth Hiott, a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer; the trial court reduced the award to $730,000 based on comparative fault, and Florida's First District Court of Appeal affirmed in January 2014.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
