James Amaro

About

Admissions:
Member:
·        Texas Trial Lawyers Association
·        National Trial Lawyers Association
·        Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers
·        American Association of Justice
·        Houston Bar Association
Education:
·        University of Texas at Austin, B.A. in Economics, Minor in History
·        University of Wisconsin, J.D.
Articles:
·        European Union Regulations of Electronic Communication Networks: Stifling GlobalIntegration of Securities Markets, 20 Wis. Int'l. LJ 397
·        Co-author of article for The Harmonie Group: Texas Law: UM/UIM Coverage
About:
R. James Amaro founded the Amaro Law Firm after leaving his position as an attorney at a defense law firm. Not long after founding the firm, Mr. Amaro was hired to represent many individuals and families who had their lives destroyed by the BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas. Since then, Mr. Amaro has successfully represented thousands of people and businesses in various legal matters, including personal injury claims, business disputes, insurance claims, hurricane claims, and commercial litigation.   Under his leadership, the Amaro Law Firm tried the first Hurricane Ike case to verdict, assisted thousands of individuals and businesses with their claims against BP for damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and won a landmark case before the Texas Supreme Court which will provide a mechanism for millions of Texans to protect themselves from hospital billing fraud.
Every year since being founded, the Amaro Law Firm has recovered several millions of dollars for its clients who have been personally injured or suffered damages in business and insurance disputes. Mr. Amaro has instilled his firm and staff with his relentless drive and determination to effectively represent the firm's clients with the utmost duty of candor and loyalty.
Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Amaro gained a wide breadth and invaluable work experience working at some of the largest national and state based law firms in Wisconsin and Texas. In his career, Mr. Amaro has written federal opinions for a federal judge and worked for many large defense law firms. His experiences have given him the perspective to manage his firm's cases efficiently and effectively. In the beginning of his legal career, Mr. Amaro was an aggressive defense attorney with a Houston insurance defense firm where he learned how the "insurance racket" works. As a defense attorney, Mr. Amaro practiced in the areas of insurance coverage and defended clients in the areas of construction law, real estate law, toxic torts, products liability, commercial litigation and arbitration, personal injury and wrongful death.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Amaro worked and studied in real estate, engineering, and internet technology as a student and as an entrepreneur during and after his college studies. To finance his education, he had obtained multiple academic scholarships to several top-tier universities across the United States. Despite the offers, Mr. Amaro decided to stay in Texas and attend the University of Texas at Austin to study chemical engineering in its reputable program. In his chemical engineering studies, Mr. Amaro excelled and obtained an internship with a large engineering company in Houston called Bechtel Corporation at which he reviewed process flow diagrams and wrote a visual basic program for engineers to use to perform calculus and differential equations. He was in the advanced sequence of his studies in the middle of his junior year before he decided to change his major to economics and pursue a career in law. Before finishing his studies in economics at the University of Texas, Mr. Amaro co-founded a popular internet based business in Austin which provided marketing and social services to students and to companies marketing to students. The company exploded in popularity and was advertised on the radio within 3 months of launching and became one of the most visited websites in Austin by university students. Also while in Austin and only at the age of 20, Mr. Amaro obtained his real estate license and began selling and leasing apartments and condos all over the Austin area. Today, Mr. Amaro still owns interests and invests in real estate and internet technology companies.
Through this experience, Mr. Amaro has learned how the judicial system perceives insurance and personal injury claims and the common strategies of insurance defense law firms and the insurance companies that pay them. Through his business and entrepreneur experiences, he understands what makes businesses successful and how to protect valuable business interests.