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Jamie Huffman Jones

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Litigation, Business and Class Action Litigation

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501-370-1430 [email protected]
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400 West Capitol Ave. Suite 2000 Little Rock, Arkansas 72201

BIOGRAPHY

Jamie Jones is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.  She joined the firm after earning the highest score on the Arkansas Bar Exam in 2003. 

Jamie has extensive experience in complex business and commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, having defended claims involving class actions, ERISA, business torts, trade secrets, commercial practices, breach of contract, product liability, among others.  Jamie also has experience in real time corporate investigations, including catastrophic accident investigations for trains, motor vehicles, tractor/trailers, and electrical utilities.  She handles FELA and regulatory litigation of rate largest Class One freight railroad in the country and defends counties against constitutional claims. Jamie has trial experience on the federal and state levels. In 2024 alone she defended clients in multiple jury trials to successful verdicts for the defense.  In 2024, she was named as a Best Lawyer in America in the categories of Commercial Litigation, Insurance Litigation, Mass Tort/Class Action Litigation—Defendants, and Personal Injury Defense Litigation.  

Jamie is a leader in the Arkansas legal community.  In June 2025, she will be sworn in as the President of the Arkansas Bar Association after being elected without contest in October 2023.  She is the past President of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel.  She serves in multiple leadership roles for the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, a national organization that awarded her its the Joseph R. Olshan Award in 2021 for her leadership as the Chair of the Amicus and Public Policy Committee.  In 2017, Arkansas Business named her a “40 Under 40.” She is a former Board of Trustee for the Arkansas Bar Association, a tenured delegate, and a former two term Board of Director for the Arkansas Bar Foundation. 

Jamie is also a leader in the Arkansas community.  She was appointed in 2023-2025 to be Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association—Central Arkansas.  She is a past director for the Boards of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Junior League of Little Rock, and the Chamber of Commerce Leadership Greater Little Rock.  

Jamie graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2003, Order of the Coif, as the Managing Editor of the Kansas Law Review, and was honored as with the class Leadership Award upon graduation.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arkansas in 2000 with a BA in Psychology, earning the WJ Richard Memorial Award as the top psychology student of the year, and as a SILO Undergraduate Research Fellow.  

Education

  • University of Kansas School of Law, J.D., 2003
    • Order of the Coif
    • Managing Editor, Kansas Law Review
    • University of Kansas School of Law Class of 1949 Class Leadership Award 
    • Top score on Arkansas Bar Exam, July 2003
    • Phi Delta Phi
  • University of Arkansas, B.A., in Psychology, magna cum laude, 2000
    • W.J. Richards Memorial Award
    • University of Arkansas Psychology Department 
    • SILO Undergraduate Research Fellow 
    • Dean's Scholar
    • Chi Omega

Noteworthy

 

  • Awarded the Presidential Award of Excellence by the Arkansas Bar Association, 2017
  • Elected to the Arkansas Bar Association's Board of Trustees, 2020
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
    • Commercial Litigation
    • Litigation - Insurance
    • Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
  • Named "40 Under 40" by Arkansas Business, 2017
  • Received the 2019, 2020 & 2021 Golden Gavel Award from the Arkansas Bar Association
  • Received the Joseph R. Olshan Award from Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2021
  • Selected to the Mid-South Super Lawyers List, 2019
    • Rising Star, 2018-2018
  • University of Kansas School of Law "Class of 1949 Class Leadership Award," 2003

Associations and Memberships

  • American Heart Association, Central Arkansas Board of Directors
  • Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel
  • Arkansas Arts Center, Current Ex-Officio Trustee of Board of Trustees
  • Arkansas Association of Defense Lawyers, Board of Trustees, Treasurer
  • Arkansas Bar Association
    • Board of Trustees
    • Board of Governors
    • House of Delegates, Pulaski County, 2013
  • Arkansas Bar Foundation, Board of Trustees
  • Arkansas Supreme Court, Model Jury Instructions Civil Committee, 2018-2021; Chair, 2021-2023
  • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Chair of the Amicus & Public Policy Committee, 2020-2021
  • Defense Research Institute
  • IADC Trial Academy, 2008
  • Junior League of Little Rock: Centennial Committee Member
  • Leadership Academy Graduate, 2013
  • Leadership Greater Little Rock graduate, Class XXXIII, 2018
  • Overton Inn of Court
  • Pulaski County Bar Association

Admissions

  • Arkansas, 2003
  • United States District Courts for the  Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
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