About Miriah Yanez
Miriah Millis Yanez is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused exclusively on personal injury law. She joined the firm in 2017 and was named Partner in February 2023.
A Wake Forest, North Carolina resident, Yanez decided in sixth grade that she wanted to be an attorney and committed to her goal in high school by enrolling in a "3+3" early admissions program. She earned her Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law in 2012.
She is admitted to the North Carolina State Bar and is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, and the Auto Torts Division of North Carolina Advocates for Justice. She also oversees the firm's Summer Associate Internship program for law students.
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.
