Elizabeth Ligon
About Elizabeth Ligon
Elizabeth Ligon is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with more than 10 years of experience in workers' compensation law. She joined the firm in 2023, after 10 years as a defense attorney.
Ligon earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010 and her Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law in 2013.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law. She is a member of North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association (Workers' Compensation Council).
Ligon has been recognized in Best Lawyers for Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants (2025-2026). She has presented extensively on workers' compensation topics, contributed to LexisNexis publications (2018-2023), and participated in panel discussions on multi-jurisdictional issues and claims management.
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.
