R. James Amaro
R. James Amaro founded Amaro Law Firm and has practised in Texas for 23 years. The State Bar of Texas lists him as eligible to practise, with no public disciplinary history in Texas.
He is also licensed in four other states, and that turns out to matter. More on it below.
The bar record
State Bar of Texas
Other states
The gap in this check
The Texas record says "No Public Disciplinary History". That sentence is doing less work than it looks like it is, and we'd rather explain than let it pass.
It covers Texas. Amaro is licensed in five states. Discipline in Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico or Wisconsin would not appear on a Texas page, because Texas doesn't hold those records.
The profile does carry a second line — "Other States: None Reported By Attorney". Read that phrase carefully. It isn't a check. It's Amaro's own statement, recorded as his statement, and the State Bar of Texas says so on the page.
Texas flags its own data. The page states that this information is self-reported by Texas attorneys, and that current licence or admittance status can only be certified by the appropriate court or licensing entity. The disciplinary finding under the "State Bar of Texas" heading is the Bar's own record. Much of the rest — firm size, practice areas, courts, other states — is what the lawyer entered. We've split them accordingly rather than presenting the page as one uniform fact.
A small illustration of that: his State Bar profile records the firm's size as 6 to 10. The firm's own website currently lists eleven lawyers plus two of counsel. Nothing turns on it — self-reported fields go stale — but it shows what kind of data this is.
Where this leaves us. One of five registers checked, and it came back clean. That's a real result and it's not the whole picture. We'll say so on the page rather than round it up to "no disciplinary history".
Background
Amaro founded the firm and, per its own site, is known for representing victims of major disasters alongside high-stakes personal injury and complex litigation.Reported The site cites national recognition for representing victims of the BP Texas City refinery explosion, one of the first Hurricane Ike lawsuits tried, and work for cleanup workers and businesses after the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.Reported
He started out on the other side. His own bio describes him beginning his career as a defence lawyer at a Houston insurance defence firm, "where he learned how the 'insurance racket' works", handling insurance coverage, construction, toxic torts, product liability and commercial litigation.Reported Whatever you make of the framing, a plaintiff's lawyer who spent years defending insurers knows how the other side builds a file.
He earned his JD at the University of Wisconsin in May 2002 and was licensed in Texas that November.Verified He was managing editor of the Wisconsin International Law Journal.Reported He is a member of the Texas Bar College, an honorary society for lawyers who complete substantially more continuing legal education than required.Verified
Practice
His State Bar profile records his practice areas as insurance, commercial litigation and personal injury litigation, and confirms contingency fees and Spanish-language assistance.Verified
The firm runs a dedicated rideshare accident practice page, listed under motor vehicle accidents alongside car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle and boating.Reported That's a step beyond a general injury firm that simply appears in rideshare searches — though short of a practice that takes rideshare work only.
The firm lists eight Texas offices: Houston, Dallas, Austin, Lakeway, San Antonio, Katy, Sugar Land and The Woodlands.Reported His registered primary location is Houston.Verified Worth distinguishing from the multi-city listings we reject — this is one firm with named lawyers operating across one state, not an address in a city where nobody works.
Courts of admittance
Self-reported to the State Bar: the Fifth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Texas Southern District and Bankruptcy Court, and the Western District of Wisconsin.Reported
Results
The firm publishes a case results page. We haven't collected the figures from it, and when we do they'll be marked as the firm's claims rather than as statistics — the same treatment every recovery total on this site gets, because no audited source exists for any of them.
Reviews
4.9 average across 3,450 Google reviews — the largest review record of any firm we list.Verified We confirm the record exists and is consistent with the firm's location and practice. We don't audit individual reviews and nobody outside Google can.
What we haven't checked
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