Sara Royster
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About Sara Royster
Sara Royster is an attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, focused on personal injury law. She transitioned to legal practice after more than 10 years of experience in child welfare social work and has practiced as an attorney since 2019.
Royster earned her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2005 (Dean's List), her Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008 (Phi Alpha Society), and her Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in Greensboro in 2019.
She is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and is a member of North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
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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