LaDonna Williams
About LaDonna Williams
LaDonna Williams is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She joined the firm in 2010 and brings approximately 26+ years of legal-industry experience, including two decades as a legal assistant and office manager before becoming an attorney.
Williams earned her Associate of Arts in Business Education from Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia in 1980, her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology magna cum laude from Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2001, and her Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham in 2006.
During law school, she served on the Law Journal Committee and as Symposium Editor of the Law Journal Board.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar Association, the Durham County Bar Association, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina.
Her recognitions include the Super Lawyers Rising Star designation (2010) and inclusion in the Cambridge Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry (2010).
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.
