Michael Jordan
About Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with 25 years of legal experience. He joined the firm in 2001 and was named Partner in 2002. He works out of the Durham, North Carolina office.
Jordan's practice areas include personal injury, workers' compensation, eminent domain, products liability, medical malpractice, mass tort, and other injury claims.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 and his Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham in 1993.
He is admitted to practice in the North Carolina Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
His professional memberships include the American Association for Justice, the Durham Bar Association (former Board member), the 16th Judicial District Bar Association (former Board member), North Carolina Advocates for Justice (former Board of Governors member), and the North Carolina Bar Association (Professional Vitality Committee, Publications Subcommittee, Law Practice Management Section Council).
His honors include Best Lawyers (2024-2026) for Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, the Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished Rating (1996-2024), the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Order of Service Award (2007-2015), and an Avvo 10/10 rating since 2012.
Jordan co-authored the North Carolina Personal Injury Liens Manual (LexisNexis) and served as Editor of Trial Briefs magazine (2008-2012).
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.
