About Amy Bruning
Amy Bruning is an attorney at D'Amore Law Group, joining the firm in June 2018. She advocates for clients severely harmed by negligence and brings diverse legal experience, having previously represented plaintiffs in employment, housing, education, and civil rights matters.
Bruning is admitted to practice in all Oregon state and federal courts and the Ninth Circuit. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, where she received a Dean's Scholarship, served as a contributing editor of the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and was a student attorney with the Child Advocacy Law Clinic. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College in Claremont, California. She serves on the Oregon Justice Resource Center's Amicus Curiae Committee.
Notable case results
A federal jury in Pendleton held two trucking companies and their drivers responsible for a 90-mile road-rage chase that ended in a fatal head-on crash, returning a $26.5 million verdict that survived the defendants' appeal intact.
A Multnomah County jury found a property management company and a private security firm liable after one of the firm's unlicensed armed guards shot and killed Freddy Nelson Jr. in a Lowe's parking lot, returning $21.25 million to his family.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
