James Scherr
About James Scherr
James F. Scherr, a native El Pasoan, is the founding partner of Scherr Legate. Jim has been practicing law for over 43 years and has served as lead trial counsel for the plaintiff in more than 250 wrongful death and personal injury jury trials. He has handled cases in Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, and other states, covering construction, trucking, bus, product liability, trains, tires, fires and explosions, trench collapse, building collapse, electrocution, civil rights, motor vehicle, and workplace incidents. His cases have been covered by CBS, Insider Exclusive, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other outlets. In 1976, at age 22, Jim was sworn in as one of the youngest attorneys in Texas at the time, earning one of the top grades on the bar exam. Shortly after his 1977 election as the youngest person ever elected to El Paso City Council, he began his personal injury practice and has remained committed to the community through civic, business, and political involvement.
Notable case results
A Santa Fe jury awarded $165.5 million, the largest verdict in New Mexico history, to the survivors of a young mother and her daughter killed when a FedEx tractor-trailer plowed into their stopped pickup at highway speed on Interstate 10.
An El Paso jury awarded more than $4 million on behalf of an auto dealership employee who was catastrophically injured when a co-worker's truck struck her in the dealership parking lot after hours, and the Texas Supreme Court in June 2023 blocked an attempt to retry the case, locking in the verdict.
Jury verdict against Union Pacific, the largest single-family verdict against Union Pacific at the time, for the wrongful deaths of a mother and her 8-year-old daughter struck by a train
Verdict Search top trucking verdict of the year, 2015
International law journal award for Mendoza case holding U.S. company liable for death in Mexico
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
