Paul Dickinson
About Paul Dickinson
Paul R. Dickinson, Jr. is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with more than 30 years of legal experience inside and outside the courtroom. He joined the firm as a partner in 2023 and brings extensive litigation expertise.
Dickinson earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Florida and his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law Houston in 1990, the same year he was admitted to legal practice.
Before joining Farrin, he worked as a Litigation Attorney at DeMayo Law Offices (personal injury) and as a Partner at Lewis & Roberts (business and financial litigation, personal injury, construction law, workers' compensation). He has handled cases in more than a dozen practice areas, including the famous Blackwater Massacre case, in which he represented civilian victims and families.
Dickinson holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest peer-review rating (AV Preeminent) and has been selected to the North Carolina Super Lawyers list in 2012 and from 2017 to 2019.
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.
