Amy Hargis
Raizner Slania, LLP
Amy Hargis is a Partner at Raizner Slania, where she spends the majority of her time focusing on insurance bad faith litigation, while also pursuing personal injury claims on behalf of victims across the country.
After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Texas A&M University in 2008, Ms. Hargis attended South Texas College of Law where she graduated with magna cum laude honors in 2011. While in law school, she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar and served both as the Note and Comment Editor for the South Texas Law Review and the Managing Student Editor for the Construction Law Journal. She was active in the advocacy program and earned five CALI Excellence Awards for her academic performance in the classroom. Upon graduation with honors, she was admitted to practice in 2011.
Prior to joining the Raizner Slania legal team, Ms. Hargis was an Associate Attorney at an estate planning and probate firm and in 2012 went to work as an Associate with Doyle Raizner, LLP where she represented injured consumers across the country and also worked on one of the nation’s most successful mass tort dockets against an international pharmaceutical company. Ms. Hargis currently works on a nationwide docket of insurance disputes involving hotels, office buildings, churches, and other buildings, and represents individuals who have been harmed through no fault of their own. Ms. Hargis is committed to the firm philosophy of achieving the best possible results in the shortest amount of time on behalf of the firm’s clients.
Active with various professional associations, she serves on the Editorial Board of The Houston Lawyer, a Houston Bar Association publication, and is a member of the Young Alumni Council at South Texas College of Law. She is also actively involved in the community, supporting local organizations and events in the Houston Heights, volunteering at Houston’s First Baptist Church, and serving as a Board Member of Young Friends of DePelchin.
- South Texas College of Law
- J.D. (2011) | Law
- Honors: Magna Cum Laude Dean's Merit Scholar Langdell Scholar - Property II
- Activities: Note & Comment Editor, South Texas Law Review Managing Student Editor, Construction Law Journal Varsity Moot Court Team
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- Texas A&M University - College Station
- B.A. (2008) | International Studies
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- Partner
- Raizner Slania, LLP
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- Associate Attorney
- Raizner Slania, LLP
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- Associate Attorney
- Doyle Raizner, LLP
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- Associate Attorney
- The Shanks Law Firm
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- Judicial Intern
- Fourteeth Court of Appeals
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- Texas Supreme Court Finds Economic Loss Rule Not a Bar to Suit Between Contractual Strangers
- The Houston Lawyer
- Weathering the Storm of Causation Clauses
- Trial Magazine
- Re-thinking Review: The Increasing Need for a Practical Standard of Review on Daubert Issues in Place of Joiner
- South Texas Law Review
- Ethical Considerations and Requirements in the Context of Public Adjuster Contracts, First Party Claims Conference, Providence, Rhode Island
- Super Lawyers
- Thomson Reuters
- Super Lawyers
- Thomson Reuters
- Texas Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers
- Texas Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers
- Texas Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers
- State Bar of Texas
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- American Bar Association
- Member
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- Houston Bar Association
- Editorial Board, The Houston Lawyer
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- Houston Young Lawyers Association
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- Houston Trial Lawyers Association
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- American Association for Justice
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- Young Alumni Council at South Texas College of Law
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- Young Friends of DePelchin
- Board Member
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- Texas
- State Bar of Texas
- ID Number: 24078630
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- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- English: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken