William Massengale
About William Massengale
William F. Massengale is a Personal Injury Attorney at the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, with more than a decade of legal experience. He joined the firm in 2025 and brings a background in both criminal prosecution and civil plaintiff litigation.
Massengale earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a Minor in Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University in 2010 and his Juris Doctor from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2014.
He is admitted to the North Carolina Bar.
Notable accomplishments include trying hundreds of bench trials and dozens of jury trials, prosecuting five first-degree murder trials (all resulting in convictions), recovering a $6.2 million settlement in a disputed-liability products case, and trying hundreds of DWI cases across Superior and District courts.
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.
