About Emily Fertig
Emily Fertig is a Personal Injury Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She has practiced personal injury law since 2014 and joined the firm in 2019. She works to guide clients through the legal process and fight for the relief they justly deserve.
Fertig earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and her Juris Doctor from Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson in 2013, where she received the Henderman Law Scholarship for outstanding academics.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Durham County Bar Association.
She authored the blog article "No Female Crash Test Dummies = Women at a Greater Risk for Injury or Death."
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.
