Margo Carnahan
About Margo Carnahan
Margo K. Carnahan is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. She has more than 11 years of legal experience, primarily as an insurance defense attorney before joining the plaintiff's bar.
Carnahan earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and her Juris Doctor from Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee in 2009.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina.
During law school, she served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Moot Court Executive Board (as an undergraduate moot court alumna) and was a Semi-Finalist in the National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law (2008).
Her honors include Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs and Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants (2024). She lives in Cary, North Carolina.
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.
