Leila Jarmusz
About Leila Jarmusz
Leila Hicks Jarmusz is an attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She joined the firm in 2017. Her practice areas include personal injury, Social Security Disability (including Veterans' Disability), car accidents, and medical malpractice.
Jarmusz earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy with a minor in Social and Economic Justice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and her Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law in 2011, where she was an editor/staff member of the UNC Banking Institute Journal (2009-2011).
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the 16th Judicial District. She serves as Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Membership Committee (2021-2023) and is a member of the Durham County Bar Association and North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
Her honors include Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2021-2023), the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2017), North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society induction (2020), and the Charles Blanchard Young Lawyer of the Year Award from NCBA (2021). She was also a Governor appointee to the NC Brain Injury Advisory Council.
She presented four National Business Institute CLEs on evidence collection and motorist insurance law in 2017.
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.
