Daniel Lehrer
About Daniel Lehrer
Daniel R. Lehrer is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused exclusively on workers' compensation cases and based in the Durham, North Carolina area. He joined the firm in 2019. He began his legal career writing Social Security Disability briefs and brings additional experience in personal injury and Social Security Disability matters.
Lehrer earned his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and his Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2010.
He is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law — a distinction held by fewer than 1% of NC-licensed attorneys. His memberships include the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, and North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
His honors include selection to Best Lawyers in America for Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants (2024-2026) and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2021-2023). He authored "Workers' Compensation Should Cover CBD Oil" in Queen City Nerve (2024).
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.
