About Ali Overby
Susan "Ali" Overby is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focusing on workers' compensation law. She joined the firm in 2015 and was named partner in 2024.
Overby earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2008, where she was a Dean's List Scholar. She completed Meredith College's NC State Bar Approved Paralegal Certificate Program in 2009 before earning her Juris Doctor from Campbell University School of Law in 2014, where she received a partial merit scholarship.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. She is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, and North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
She has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants from 2021 through 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
These results are credited to Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Farrin co-lead counsel Gary Jackson won an $8 million class settlement for roughly 6,500 residents forced from their homes by the 2022 ammonium nitrate fire at the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant, with a separate $4.5 million for affected businesses.
A Johnston County jury awarded $5.1 million to the family of Joan Drake, killed when a driver going 98 mph struck her car as she turned into a Clayton Walmart, after Farrin attorneys Coleman Cowan and Donald Clack tried the case without putting on a single medical bill.
A mother and her two teenage daughters were seriously hurt in an October 2018 head-on crash on North Carolina Highway 49 with a company truck driven by an unlicensed man. After the injury claims were resolved by agreement, a federal court held that the construction company's commercial excess policy covered the accident and that interest was owed on top. The Fourth Circuit affirmed in August 2025, and the family's total recovery reached $2,861,458.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
