Tom D’Amore

Tom D’Amore is a trial lawyer dedicated to preserving the civil justice system. Tom has earned a reputation among insurance companies, corporations, and opposing counsel as a skilled, experienced, aggressive, and ethical personal injury attorney. Tom is an experienced and board- certified truck accident and civil trial attorney with the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Tom has been selected by Super Lawyers and his peers as one of the Top 50 lawyers in Oregon for the past 15 years. Tom and D’Amore Law Group are AV Preeminent-rated for the highest ethical standards and professional ability by Martindale-Hubbell. In July of 2023 Tom was awarded the David Shrager award which recognizes an AAJ member who has demonstrated former AAJ President David Shrager’s passion for the law and trial bar, and who has made an outstanding contribution to civil justice and the work of AAJ. In 2020 Tom was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and in 2019 Public Justice nominated Tom and his co-counsel Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalists. In 2016, the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) awarded the Arthur H. Bryant Public Justice Award to Tom.

An attorney for more than 30 years — and a former CPA with a Big 8 accounting firm —Tom is licensed to practice law in Oregon, Washington and California. He founded D’Amore Law Group in 1994 with the mission of securing justice for injured people, victims of wrongful death, and their families.
Tom is actively engaged in the plaintiff’s trial bar. Tom is a Board of Governor, Executive Committee member, and former Budget, Audit, and Motor Vehicle Chair of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) in Washington, D.C. Tom is Past President of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association. Tom is licensed to practice in Oregon, Washington and California.

Tom’s practice is devoted nationally and locally to representing individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, spinal cord injury – paraplegia and quadriplegia, brain injury, Multi-District Litigation and class actions, insurance company bad faith, complex business litigation, and banking fraud.

Tom teaches fellow trial lawyers about representing victims of crime, trial practice, arbitration, accident reconstruction, insurance and insurance bad faith law, the business of law, and so-called “tort reform”. He has written several articles and authored a chapter in the Anatomy of a Personal Injury Lawsuit, 4th Edition, a chapter in the Oregon State Bar Civil Practice and Procedures Manual (Défense Medical Examinations), a chapter in the Oregon Trial Lawyers Motor Vehicle Deskbook (Rules of the Road) and is the co-editor of the AAJ Press title Litigating Major Automobile Injury and Death Cases with Ken Levinson.

Tom lives outside Portland, Oregon. He has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 35 years and has three adult children. Tom has spent many years coaching youth sports at the competitive and recreational level, including football, basketball and baseball. He enjoys spending time with his family, traveling with Lisa, trying new restaurants, attending sporting events, and playing softball and basketball.