James Porter

James 'Lamar' Porter was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and grew up in Little Rock, where he attended Catholic High School. He went on to Hendrix College in Conway and graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1978, where he served as associate editor of the Arkansas Law Review. Over more than forty years of practice, Lamar has handled all aspects of personal injury litigation, including motor vehicle, trucking, defective products, and catastrophic injury cases. For the past twenty-five years he has focused primarily on medical malpractice, representing patients and their families in cases against providers who have caused serious injury or death. He heads the medical malpractice and litigation section of the firm. In 2009, Lamar's wife Debbie was hospitalized for six months after surgical complications from a colon resection, spending four months on a ventilator and undergoing numerous additional surgeries before recovering. That experience deepened his understanding of what families go through during a medical crisis. Lamar is also admitted in Texas.