About Oscar Lara
Oscar A. Lara is an attorney at Scherr Legate with a background in employment law, personal injury, and appellate practice. He earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 2011. He is also licensed in New Mexico and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. In the $5.7 million bar wrongful death trial won by Scherr Legate, Lara played a critical role by arguing and defeating the directed verdict, ensuring the case was submitted to the jury.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Scherr Legate
These results are credited to Scherr Legate. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
