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En resumen
| Despacho | Amy Hernandez Law, PLLC |
| Office | 6340 N. Campbell Ave., Ste. 170, Tucson, AZ 85718 |
| Abogado | Amy Hernandez — Drake University Law School (J.D. with honors, 2003); admitted 2004 |
| Enfoque de práctica | Exclusively plaintiff-side medical malpractice, legal malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury |
| Reconocimientos | Best Lawyers in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Litigation and Medical Malpractice Law (2026); Southwest Super Lawyer (2020–2024); Rising Star (2012–2016); American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) member since 2025 |
| Bar leadership | Appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court to a 3-year term on the State Bar of Arizona Board of Governors (2024) |
| Military service | U.S. Army, Military Intelligence Analyst, 1996–2000, Fort Hood, TX (Top Secret clearance) |
| Contacto | amyhernandezlaw.com · (520) 209-1855 |
From Army Intelligence to the State Bar’s Board of Governors
Before law school, Amy Hernandez served in the United States Army as a military intelligence analyst from 1996 to 2000, stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, where she held a Top Secret clearance analyzing and disseminating intelligence. She went on to earn her law degree with honors from Drake University in 2003 and clerked for the Arizona Court of Appeals for a year before entering practice. Her firm’s own description of her work is unambiguous about scope: she “exclusively represents people who have been injured by others,” across medical malpractice, legal malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury — no defense work, no general civil practice as a hedge.
That focus has translated into sustained institutional trust from Arizona’s legal community. In 2024, the Arizona Supreme Court appointed Hernandez to a three-year term as a district representative on the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Governors — the body that governs the state’s mandatory bar association — and in 2025 she was voted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only association of experienced trial lawyers.
Áreas de práctica
Hernandez’s docket concentrates on the most technically demanding tier of plaintiff-side injury work: medical malpractice (including multiple first-chaired, lengthy trials), legal malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury claims. Her firm’s marketing does not diversify into auto-accident volume work or unrelated practice areas; the entire practice is built around cases requiring extended trial preparation and expert-witness coordination, consistent with the malpractice-heavy caseload her credentials reflect.
Historial
Awesome Attorneys did not locate a published verdicts-and-settlements ledger with case-specific dollar figures for Amy Hernandez Law as of the research date. Her firm’s materials state she has “first-chaired numerous trials, including multiple lengthy medical malpractice trials,” which Awesome Attorneys treats as a description of trial experience rather than a quantified results claim. Prospective clients should ask the firm directly for outcome examples relevant to their type of case.
En palabras de los clientes
Client reviews on the firm’s own site describe both the outcome and the emotional weight of malpractice and wrongful death representation. One family, describing the loss of a child, wrote that they found Hernandez “highly recommended” and that she “was there for us” through the grieving process, keeping them “completely informed” throughout. Another client called her “prompt, direct and honest,” specifically citing her ability to have “tough conversations” clearly. A third reviewer said simply: “Amy is the lawyer you want in your corner.”
Más allá de la sala del tribunal
Hernandez served as president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Pima County Bar Association (2007–2008) and as a board member of the State Bar of Arizona’s Young Lawyers Division (2006–2008). In 2013, she was named one of Tucson’s Top 40 community leaders under 40. She is a former member of the Morris K. Udall Inn of Court and has served as a board member for the Arizona Association for Justice, the state’s plaintiff-bar organization.
Reconocimientos
Hernandez has been named to Best Lawyers in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Litigation and Medical Malpractice Law for 2026, and was recognized as a Southwest Super Lawyer from 2020 through 2024 and a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2012 to 2016 — a distinction limited to attorneys under 40 or in practice fewer than 10 years. Her 2025 induction into the American Board of Trial Advocates and her 2024 Arizona Supreme Court appointment to the State Bar’s Board of Governors are peer- and institutionally-conferred credentials distinct from paid marketing recognitions, and among the strongest this series has documented for a solo practitioner.
Contexto legal de Arizona
| A.R.S. § 12-542 | Two-year statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims |
| A.R.S. § 12-821.01 | 180-day notice of claim requirement before suing a public entity or employee |
| A.R.S. § 12-821 | One-year statute of limitations for suits against public entities |
| A.R.S. § 12-2505 | Arizona’s pure comparative negligence rule — recovery is reduced, not barred, by the injured person’s own share of fault |
| A.R.S. § 12-502 | Tolling of limitations periods for minors and persons under a legal disability |
Given Hernandez’s malpractice-heavy docket, A.R.S. § 12-2603 and § 12-2604 — the preliminary expert affidavit and same-specialty expert qualification statutes — govern most of her caseload from the outset, in addition to the general injury framework above.
La evaluación de Awesome Attorneys
Amy Hernandez Law is one of the more institutionally credentialed solo practices in this series: a sitting appointee to the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Governors, an ABOTA member, five consecutive years as a Super Lawyer following an earlier five-year run as a Rising Star, and a 2026 Best Lawyers listing specifically in plaintiff’s personal injury and medical malpractice — the exact niche her practice occupies. The client reviews Awesome Attorneys located, several involving wrongful death and malpractice matters, are specific and emotionally substantive rather than generic praise.
There is little to caveat here beyond the ordinary limits of this methodology: Awesome Attorneys could not independently verify a dollar-figure track record, since the firm does not publish one, and readers should treat “first-chaired numerous trials” as the firm’s own characterization of experience rather than a itemized results claim. This is a genuinely well-documented, narrowly focused practice.
Metodología & fuentes
This profile was researched using amyhernandezlaw.com (firm site and attorney biography), Super Lawyers, Yelp, Facebook, Halt Law Directory, and TrustAnalytica. All statutory citations were checked against the Arizona Revised Statutes as published by the Arizona State Legislature. No compensation was sought or received from the firm, and the firm was not contacted prior to publication of this profile.
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