John Paul Godwin
VerifiedAbout John Paul Godwin
John Paul Godwin is a partner at Hardison & Cochran in North Carolina, where he has practiced since law school graduation in 2010. His practice focuses primarily on personal injury, including car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, child care negligence, defective medical devices, mass torts, and dangerous drugs. He also handles Social Security disability and workers' compensation matters.
Godwin earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2006 and his Juris Doctor from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University in 2010.
He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
He is the published attorney on Long v. Fowler, 2020 N.C. App. LEXIS 169, 841 S.E.2d 290 (2020). He has spoken at the National Business Institute on 'Plaintiff's Personal Injury From Start to Finish.'
Notable case results
A Johnston County jury awarded $3 million to commercial truck driver Keave Bayes after a log fell on him at a logging deck, and John Paul Godwin of Hardison and Cochran, with co-counsel Sanford Thompson, secured the full verdict.
A 4-3 North Carolina Supreme Court decision held that state employees cannot invoke sovereign immunity to block individual-capacity wrongful death claims, arising from the death of an NCSU maintenance worker killed by a pressurized refrigerant flange.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
