About Edward Ortega
Edward J. Ortega is a Personal Injury Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focusing on car accidents and other personal injury matters. He joined the firm in 2024.
A first-generation American born in Puerto Rico and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Ortega earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Appalachian State University in 2021. He received his Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2023, commuting three hours daily during law school while balancing family responsibilities. He served as Secretary of the Hispanic and Latin Law Student Association during law school.
Before joining Farrin, Ortega practiced family law. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina and is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and North Carolina Advocates for Justice. He is bilingual in English and Spanish.
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.
