Lead counsel in numerous employment discrimination cases
Lead counsel in numerous administrative OSHA trials before the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission including death cases, alleged violations of the general duty clause, and trench citations
Lead counsel in OSHA case brought by NC OSHA attempting to appeal the general industry standards to agricultural operations
Lead counsel for the President Pro Tem of the North Carolina State Senate and the Speaker of the North Carolina House on redistricting legislation and pending redistricting litigation (2011 through 2015). Counsel to NC Speaker and President Pro Tem on Voting Rights issues and election law reform (2011-2015)
Lead counsel for plaintiff interveners in Shaw v. Hunt, which challenged North Carolina’s 1992 Congressional redistricting. Successfully prepared and argued appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
Lead counsel in Stephenson v. Bartlett, a lawsuit successfully challenging North Carolina's 2001 and 2002 legislative districts under the North Carolina Constitution Lead defense counsel in class-action suit brought by Washington-based legal defense fund against a local rental car company for alleged racial discrimination against customers
First chair in sexual harassment / intentional infliction and emotional distress claim in which plaintiff sought damages in excess of $20 million against a major corporation. Jury verdict returned in all claims for the defendant
Lead defense counsel in class action by EEOC against major multinational corporation for alleged racial harassment
First chair in employment discrimination lawsuit by railroad employee against major railroad. Jury returned a defense verdict
First chair for a local school board in defense of a case involving an alleged breach of an employment contract and alleged violation of statutory and constitutional rights. Jury returned verdict for school board
Successful argument of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, overturning a bargaining unit determination by the National Labor Relations Board
He received his Bachelor of Liberal Studies, summa cum laude, from Hillsdale College, where he was co-salutatorian. He received his Juris Doctor from Emory University and a Master of Laws in labor law from Georgetown University. He served as a law clerk to Judge Frank William Bullock Jr. of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Prior to entering private practice, he was an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. He is currently a shareholder in the Raleigh office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. where his practice focuses on employment matters and constitutional law.
Now for the crap Wikipedia promotes about him:
Farr represented Republican state legislators in lawsuits related to redistricting and voter identification changes which were struck down by a court as racially biased. Farr, who was involved with drafting the 2013 North Carolina voter I.D. law, had in court defended voting restrictions that were later struck down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which wrote that the law targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision." Newsweek described Farr as having a "history of working on voter suppression...part of a wider Republican effort that critics say disenfranchises African-Americans and the poor." In 2010, he advised the North Carolina General Assembly in what federal courts termed a "racial gerrymander" of the state's voting districts.
In 1990, Farr played a role in an unlawful effort at voter suppression conducted by the Jesse Helms re-election campaign, aimed at preventing African Americans from voting. The campaign mailed 150,000 postcards to residents in African-American neighborhoods stating that the recipients were not eligible to vote and would be imprisoned if they showed up at the polls. When the campaign was sued by the Department of Justice, Farr defended it and in 1992, after the election was over, signed a consent decree.