Jamie Jones Walsworth 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 was sworn in as the President of the Arkansas Bar Association, having been elected without contest in October 2023. She is the past President of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel and serves in multiple leadership roles for the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, a national organization that awarded her the Joseph R. Olshan Award in 2021 for her leadership as Chair of the Amicus and Public Policy Committee. In 2017, Arkansas Business named her a “40 Under 40.” She is a former member of the Arkansas Bar Association Board of Trustees, a tenured delegate, and a former two-term director of 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.
