Laura Ramos James

 Laura Ramos James will fight harder for you than any other personal injury attorney out there.

 HERE’S WHY:

 A victim of a severe personal injury incident herself while growing up in Mexico, Laura developed a yearning for justice early on in life. It wasn’t until college when she learned that something could have been done in the civil court system to help Laura and her family if they had had an accident lawyer on their side. Since then, Laura has taken every single opportunity to learn how the system can help accident victims.

Laura graduated college from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas with honors, even though she had just recently learned English. She went on get her law degree at Baylor Law School, ranked second in the nation for its rigorous trial advocacy program. After law school, Laura was eager to polish her litigation skills, so she went on to work for a boutique insurance defense firm defending large insurance companies in South Texas. It was soon clear that her heart was with the victims, with the injured, with those who regularly got taken advantage of by the big companies. Laura moved to Austin and became a plaintiff’s lawyer.

Laura has over a decade of legal experience. She has handled hundreds of personal injury cases: auto and trucking accidents, drunk driving accidents, distracted driver accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, work injury, product liability, Texas Health Care Liability claims, sexual assault cases, complex construction accident and construction defects, catastrophic injury, wrongful death cases and more. Laura founded her law own firm, Ramos James Law, PLLC in 2018.

Laura prides herself in not being your typical lawyer. Even with all of her experience and educational background, she stays away from “legalese” and “legal terms” when talking to her clients, and enjoys breaking down complicated concepts to their basic meaning so that her clients can fully understand what is going on and have realistic expectations about their case. Read what her former clients say about her  in the "Reviews" tab.

Laura has received some of the highest recognitions in her industry, being named a “Rising Star” by the Super Lawyers™ organization for five consecutive years, being honored as part of even more exclusive recognition within Super Lawyers™ for the years 2023 & 2024 (Up-andComing 100: Texas Rising Stars: 2023 & 2024; Up-and-Coming 50: Women Texas Rising Stars: 2023 &2024) and with lifetime membership in the coveted Million and Multi-Million Advocates Forums. Laura is also a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 and National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. By 2020, Laura had been distinguished as one of America’s Top 100 Attorneys ® High Stakes Litigator.

Laura is a member of several trial lawyer associations such as Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association where she serves as part of the Executive Committee; Texas Trial Lawyers Association, where she serves as part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity committee; the Travis County Women Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association, and Mexican-American Association of Texas, to name a few.

For Laura, the most significant and transforming influence in her life has been becoming the mother of two little girls with her husband Jon: Victoria & Alexandra.

Named "Changemaker" by Austin Woman Magazine for 2025, Winner of the 2023 Austin Woman’s Magazine “Woman’s Way” Award and the “Advocacy and Activism” Award by the Latina Foundation, Laura Ramos James is one of the most recognized Lawyers in Texas and a women attorney who has supported disadvantaged communities in Austin and South Texas for several years. A personal injury victim herself, Laura hoped that one day she’d be the loud and fierce voice of those who could not speak on their own behalf