Matt Harbin
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About Matt Harbin
Matt Harbin is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused on workers' compensation law with more than 20 years of experience. He joined the firm in 2003 and was named Partner in 2008.
Harbin earned his Bachelor of Arts in History and Philosophy (double major) cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1997 and his Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law in 2000.
He is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law and a Fellow of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers.
His professional memberships include the 10th and 16th Judicial District Bar Associations, the American Association for Justice, the Workplace Injury Litigation Group, and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Workers' Compensation Section Liaison).
His honors include selection to Best Lawyers in America for Workers' Compensation (2021-2026) and three NC Advocates for Justice Order of Service Awards (2017, 2018, 2019). He is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Law Offices of James Scott Farrin
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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.
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