About Walter Wood
Walter McBrayer Wood is a Partner at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and head of the firm's South Carolina operations. He joined the firm in 2017 and pioneered its expansion into South Carolina, opening the Greenville office in 2020.
A Greenville native who spent most of his childhood in Miami, Wood has over two decades of personal injury experience and has successfully handled hundreds of cases, including multiple million-dollar recoveries.
Wood earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law.
He has been selected for the 2026 South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Personal Injury Power List and named to the 2024 SC Lawyers Weekly Leader in the Law list. He has been named to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars lists for both North Carolina and South Carolina multiple times and holds a Martindale-Hubbell Preeminent rating.
He is a member of the South Carolina Association for Justice and the Greenville County Bar Association.
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.
