Jim Fitzgerald

Jim Fitzgerald is the founding partner of The Fitzgerald Law Firm in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which focuses solely on personal injury and wrongful death cases. He represents people with catastrophic injuries and families who have lost loved ones in product liability, workplace, medical malpractice and other complex damages cases.

Fitzgerald began practicing in 1975 and founded the firm in 1982. According to the firm, he holds the records for both the largest injury verdict and the largest wrongful death verdict upheld on appeal in Wyoming. Before law school, he worked his way through the University of Wyoming, completed Army Officer Candidate School and served in Vietnam, where he received two Bronze Stars. He then earned his law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.

He is triple board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in civil trial, civil practice advocacy and truck accident law. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers and the Inner Circle of Advocates, which he led as president from 2000 to 2001. He has taught at the Gerry Spence Method since 2000, and his son, Michael, joined him in practice in 2015.