Janet Downing, Attorney at Law, only represents workers injured on the job.

Janet was raised on a tobacco farm in Rural Hall, North Carolina—her father farmed  while her mother worked in a nearby hosiery mill.  From her family and her farm neighbors, she learned the values of honesty and hard work.

Her mother and father instilled in Janet a strong will to help others in need.  She saw the practice of law as an important way to help bring justice to people who were being cheated by the legal system. 

In 1977, Janet graduated from the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She began her career with the National Labor Relations Board.
There, Janet met and represented people that worked a wide variety of manufacturing  jobs and skilled trades who often times were illegally fired.

Janet left the NRLB and worked for a few years as a prosecutor for the District Attorney in Forsyth County.  There, she gained fame by being the first female prosecutor in the State of North Carolina to obtain a death penalty conviction. You can read about this trial in a book written by Jim Schutze entitled Preacher’s Girl—the Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore. 

Later, Janet served as a Deputy Commissioner with the North Carolina Industrial Commission where she gained expertise in worker’s compensation law.   She quickly discovered a love for helping injured workers, and for the past 15 years, she has done nothing else.  

Limiting her practice to the representation of injured workers has allowed her the opportunity to feel the financial and emotional issues workers compensation clients experience.  For this reason, Janet is uniquely qualified, not just as a workers compensation attorney, but also as a source of strength, hope, and support for those needing her services.