J. Brett Davis
About J. Brett Davis
J. Brett Davis is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, working out of the firm's Durham, North Carolina office. He joined the firm in 2017 and brings approximately 26 years of legal experience. His practice covers personal injury, car accidents, medical malpractice, motorcycle accidents, nursing home negligence, and medical negligence.
Davis earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College in 1994 and his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1997 (with a study-abroad term at Oxford University).
He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, Ohio, and the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, and the Southern District of Ohio. He is a Certified Superior Court Mediator with the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission and is involved with the NCAJ Advocate Educational Achievement Program (formerly serving on the NCAJ Membership and Political Action Committees).
Davis received the NCAJ Order of Service Award.
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.
