Jamie H. Jones Walsworth 5YEARSAWARDED

Jamie H. Jones Walsworth

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Awarded Practice Areas
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Bet-the-Company Litigation Commercial Litigation Litigation - Insurance Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
*Named the "Lawyer of the Year" in this practice area in the 2027 edition in Little Rock.
Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2027 - Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
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Biography

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.

Works at
Friday Eldredge & Clark LLP

60 Best Lawyers awards

Friday Eldredge & Clark LLP logo

Locations

Education

  • University of Kansas, JD, graduated 2003
  • University of Arkansas, B.A., Psychology, graduated 2000

Bar Admissions

  • Arkansas, 2003

Court Admissions

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

Affiliations

  • Arkansas Arts Center - Current Ex-Officio Trustee of Board of Trustees
  • Arkansas Bar Association - Board of Governors Member
  • Arkansas Bar Association House of Delegates - Pulaski County, elected 2013
  • Arkansas Bar Foundation - Board of Trustees
  • Arkansas Supreme Court - Model Jury Instructions Civil Committee, appointed 2018
  • Defense Research Institute - Member
  • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel - Chair of the Amicus & Public Policy Committee, 2020-2021
  • IADC Trial Academy - 2008
  • Junior League of Little Rock - Centennial Committee Member
  • Leadership Academy - Graduate, 2013
  • Leadership Greater Little Rock - Class XXXIII, 2018
  • Phi Delta Phi - Member
  • Pulaski County Bar Association - Member
  • American Heart Association - Central Arkansas Board of Directors
  • Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel - Member
  • Arkansas Bar Association - Board of Trustees, 2020
  • Arkansas Supreme Court - Model Jury Instructions - Civil Committee, 2018
  • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel - Vice-Chair of the Amicus & Public Policy Committee, 2019-2020

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2027 - Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2026 - Litigation - Insurance
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, Little Rock (2027)
  • Litigation - Insurance, Little Rock (2026)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2027 for work in:
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Insurance
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law
  • Railroad Law
Awards:
  • Awarded the Presidential Award of Excellence by the Arkansas Bar Association, 2017
  • Named "40 Under 40" by Arkansas Business, 2017
  • Received the 2019 & 2020 Golden Gavel Award by the Arkansas Bar Association
  • University of Kansas School of Law "Class of 1949 Class Leadership Award," 2003
  • Awarded the Presidential Award of Excellence by the Arkansas Bar Association, 2017

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