About Tom Wilmoth
Tom Wilmoth is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. He has 18+ years of legal experience, including more than 10 years in corporate complex litigation on the defense side before joining the firm in 2021.
Wilmoth earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002 and his Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in 2010.
He is admitted to the North Carolina Bar and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina. His memberships include the North Carolina Bar Association, the Forsyth County Bar Association, and North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
He has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Consumer Protection Law (2025-2026).
Notable case work includes the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant fire settlement and other mass torts and federal multidistrict litigation. He has co-authored Amicus Curiae Briefs filed with the North Carolina Supreme Court and presented "How to Catch a Copycat - And How to Avoid Being One" (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.
