Stephen Dinkel
About Stephen Dinkel
Stephen C. Dinkel is a Personal Injury Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. He emphasizes practicing with integrity and humility, leveraging his personal injury experience and insurance defense background to represent clients in matters including insurance defense, wrongful death, and contract disputes.
Dinkel earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico in 2012, and his Juris Doctor from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in Raleigh in 2022. After graduation, he practiced at a New Mexico firm before joining Farrin.
He is admitted to practice in North Carolina and New Mexico and is a member of the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division.
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.
