Amy Elizabeth Stewart

Amy Elizabeth Stewart is the Managing Principal of Amy Stewart Law, an insurance coverage boutique in Dallas, providing corporate policyholders with insurance advice and handling insurance coverage litigation. She is the author of Texas Insurance Coverage Litigation, the Litigator's Practice Guide, published by Texas Lawyer Books and American Lawyer Media. Amy also speaks regularly on insurance issues and writes for a number of publications, including the American Bar Association’s Coverage periodical. An experienced, AV-rated lawyer, Amy has achieved outstanding results for clients in complex, high-stakes cases through diligent preparation, meticulous attention to detail and tenacious advocacy. Amy's insurance coverage litigation and bad faith litigation practice involves mostly specialty liability policies (directors and officers liability, fiduciary liability, errors and omissions, securities broker/dealers liability, employment practices liability and other professional liability policies). Amy has litigated insurance coverage cases in state and federal court and in arbitration, both in Texas and in other jurisdictions. She also regularly advises clients on insurance and coverage issues such as the extent and scope of coverage, applicability of exclusions, policy interpretation, claim handling and claim resolution.

University of Virginia School of Law

J.D.

1989 - 1992

Activities: Moot Court

Liberty University

B.S. (1989) | Political Science

1985 - 1989

Honors: magna cum laude

Activities: Student Government Association, Executive Vice President; Debate

Shareholder

Amy Stewart PC

2009 - Current

Insurance coverage litigation, bad faith litigation, insurance litigation, business and commercial litigation, complex contract disputes.

Partner

Wilson Elser

2003 - 2009

Insurance coverage litigation, insurance bad faith litigation, insurance litigation, business and commercial litigation, complex contract disputes, construction litigation, ERISA litigation, professional liability defense (accountants, real estate, securities broker-dealers).

Texas Insurance Coverage Litigation: The Litigator's Practice Guide

Texas Lawyer Books

2017

Texas Super Lawyers 2009-2016

Texas Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters)

2016

Named to Texas Super Lawyers in the area of insurance coverage. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas in 2011, 2014, 2015

Texas Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters)

2015

Texas Rising Stars

Texas Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters)

2007

Recognized as a Rising Star in insurance coverage, business litigation and construction litigation by Texas Rising Stars

Current

Activities: State Bar of Texas

Current

Activities: Attorneys Serving the Community

Current

Activities: Dallas Bar Association

American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel

Fellow

2013 - Current

American Bar Association

Member

2009 - Current

Activities: Litigation Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee

State Bar of Texas

Texas

Since 1992

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas

• Insurance Bad Faith Litigation
• Insurance Coverage Litigation
• Insurance Litigation