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Jacob Goad

Jacob Goad

Workers' compensation and personal injury attorney; principal at Law Office of Jacob Goad in Durham, NC; immediate past chair of NCAJ's Hispanic Latino Legal Issues Division.

Jun 15, 2026

9:47
Was there a case or a moment or a particular client that early on or at any time in your career where you knew that this is exactly what I should be doing? I know I've made the right decision to pursue workers' comp.
10:02
And I believe it happened likely in my freshman year as an attorney.
10:08
I was working at the law offices of James Scott Farron under the guidance of several mentors.
10:14
There's too many to name there.
10:16
They had me paired not with one attorney, but like all the attorneys because I was bilingual.
10:21
And so I had the benefit of seeing different styles and selecting from those styles the one that I wanted to incorporate in my practice, which was extremely valuable.
10:32
But coming back to your question, the cases that come to mind are cases that involve people who are probably first-generation, Immigrant employees who have no longer have use of their legs or no longer have use of their brain and the way that they did before.
12:51
How is the HLD division or HLD? How are you able to try to help your fellow attorneys meet those challenges? What's the work going on there that's helping?

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