Jarvis Harris
About Jarvis Harris
Jarvis T. Harris is an attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with more than 23 years of experience in workers' compensation, personal injury, and Social Security Disability law. He joined the firm in 2023 and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Harris earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994 (recipient of the Joseph E. Pogue Scholarship full academic scholarship and a North Carolina Fellow) and his Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law in 1997.
He is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is fluent in Spanish.
Harris is a member of North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the Greensboro Bar Association.
His honors include Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 2005 National Alumni Brother of the Year and the UNC MLK Jr. Award. He served as the first African American male Board Chair of Guilford Technical Community College (also the youngest Board Chair in school history).
He has published "Survey and Discussion of North Carolina State Bar Ethics Opinions About Workers' Compensation Issues" (19th Annual NC Workers' Compensation Educational Conference, 2024), the Social Security Disability Bootcamp CLE (National Business Institute, 2012), and "Reliability, Certainty, Possibility & Probability: An Update on Causation in Workers' Compensation Cases" (NC Bar Association CLE, 2004).
Notable case work includes Adams v. Metals USA, 168 N.C. App. 469 (2005).
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.
