Jessica Yañez
About Jessica Yañez
Jessica L. Yanez is a Personal Injury Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She has 15+ years of legal experience, including over a decade in immigration law before joining the firm. Her practice areas include car accidents, personal injury, Social Security Disability, and workers' compensation.
Yanez earned her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2007 and her Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in 2011.
Before joining Farrin, she operated her own immigration law practice in Greensboro and taught as an adjunct professor at Elon University School of Law (2017-2023).
She is admitted to practice in North Carolina, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Immigration Law (2016-2026).
Her professional memberships include the Greensboro Bar Association and North Carolina Advocates for Justice. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (Immigration Law, 2018-2021) and named to Business North Carolina's Legal Elite (2018-2022). She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
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.
