James Farrin

James Scott Farrin is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in Durham, North Carolina. He launched the firm in 1997 with a single paralegal and grew it into one of the largest plaintiff firms in North Carolina, later expanding into South Carolina. The firm's practice areas now include personal injury, workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, complex litigation, whistleblower, civil rights, and eminent domain (in Georgia and North Carolina).

Farrin earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and his Juris Doctor with honors from Duke University School of Law. After law school, he initially practiced corporate law in California before returning to Durham in 1995 to join a plaintiffs' firm and ultimately launch his own practice.

He played a leading role in one of the largest civil rights cases in United States history: In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation, Case No. 08-mc-0511 (PLF) (D.D.C.), where he served as class counsel and on the plaintiffs' steering committee. The case addressed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's discrimination against Black farmers across the United States.