James Amaro
Founder and Lead Trial Attorney | Amaro Law Firm
James Amaro is a personal injury, trucking accidents and wrongful death trial lawyer and founder and lead trial attorney of Amaro Law Firm in Houston, Texas. Admitted in Texas, Wisconsin, Colorado, Illinois and New Mexico; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School.
Meet James
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R. James Amaro is the founder and lead trial attorney of Amaro Law Firm in Houston, Texas. He represents individuals, families and businesses in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, trucking and motor vehicle claims, insurance disputes and commercial litigation.
Amaro founded the firm in 2005 after working as a defense lawyer at large firms in Texas and Wisconsin. Soon after opening the firm, he represented victims of the BP refinery explosion in Texas City, later litigated one of the first lawsuits arising from Hurricane Ike and represented cleanup workers and small businesses harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He studied economics at the University of Texas at Austin and earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was managing editor of the Wisconsin International Law Journal.
He is president of the National Latino Trial Lawyers Association and serves on the national advisory board of the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America. Best Lawyers has listed him for personal injury and insurance litigation, and he has been named a Super Lawyer since 2016. He and his wife, Angelica, co-founded the nonprofit Baseball for Babies, and he serves on the boards of the Sugar Land Heritage Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Alumni Council.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
- B.A., Economics, University of Texas at Austin
- International Law, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Admitted to practice in Texas, 2002
- Admitted to practice in Wisconsin, 2002
- Admitted to practice in Illinois (2015), Colorado (2018) and New Mexico (2022)
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent (2006-present)
Practice Areas
- National Latino Trial Lawyers Association (President)
- Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (National Advisory Board)
- American Association for Justice (President's Club Member)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Houston Trial Lawyers Association
- Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association
- Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
- Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Association
- The Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs (2024-2027)
- The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation - Insurance (2024-2027)
- Super Lawyers, Personal Injury (2016-present)
- Top 100 Super Lawyers in Houston (2020-2023)
- Top 100 Trial Lawyer, The National Trial Lawyers (2011-present)
- Top 10 Trucking Trial Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers (2017-present)
- Top 10 National Latino Trial Lawyers (2017-present)
- Top Attorneys in Texas, Texas Monthly (2016-present)
- Number 1 Jury Verdict (Automotive Premises Liability), Top Verdict (2023)
- Appellate Attorney of the Week, Texas Lawyer (2018)
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