About Leah Parady
Leah Parady is a Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with additional focus on veterans benefits matters. She joined the firm in 2024 after retiring from a distinguished 18-year career as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, where her experience included medical planning for U.S. operations in Europe and serving as U.S. liaison to NATO. She retired due to combat-related PTSD and pursued law to help others facing difficult circumstances.
Parady earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of New Hampshire in 1993, her Master of Arts in Healthcare Administration from Webster University in 1995, and her Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins School of Law in 2021.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a member of the NC Bar Association's Military and Veterans Division, the National Organization of Veterans Advocates, and the CAVC Bar Association. She has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Personal Injury Litigation and Workers' Compensation (2026).
Notable case work includes helping a young veteran with PTSD obtain disability benefits and helping the surviving spouse of a Vietnam veteran secure an increased disability rating and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation. She has been featured in the NCBA's NC Lawyer Magazine.
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.
