Chelsea Townsend
About Chelsea Townsend
Chelsea D. Townsend is an attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused on car accidents, personal injury, and workers' compensation matters. She joined the firm in 2024.
Townsend earned her Bachelor of Arts in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016 and her Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2018, where she was a National Order of Barristers Dean's Scholar.
Before joining Farrin, Townsend worked as a Resident-in-Practice Student Attorney at the Wake County Public Defender's Office, served as Compliance Officer for the Amateur Athletic Union in Florida, and practiced as a Workers' Compensation Defense Attorney.
She is admitted to practice in North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Her professional memberships include the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, and the Mecklenburg County Bar Association. She is also a Certified NFLPA Contract Advisor.
She has volunteered with Just Grace (Cape Town, South Africa) and supports sports equity organizations Keep It PlayHER and BeyondFour.
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.
