Preston Lesley
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About Preston Lesley
Preston W. Lesley is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused on personal injury litigation. He joined the firm in 2017 and was named Partner in 2024. He works out of the Raleigh, North Carolina area.
Lesley earned his Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Political Science from North Carolina State University in 2014. He received his Juris Doctor cum laude from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2017, where he was on the Dean's List throughout law school, served as the Class of 2016 Graduation Marshal, and was a Staff Editor of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Law Review.
He is admitted to practice in the North Carolina Bar Association, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
His professional memberships include the North Carolina Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, the 10th Judicial District Bar Association, and North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Legislative Committee).
His honors include selection to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Personal Injury Litigation (2024-2026) and the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2021-2025). He published "Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. Von Eschenbach: Access to Experimental Drugs: Is Access a Fundamental Right When It Comes to Treatment of the Terminally Ill?" in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Law Review (Spring 2017).
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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