Houston1 lawyer
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R. James Amaro
✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026
Amaro Law Firm · Houston, TX · covers Texas
Personal injury firm
Uber & Lyft
Credentials
Licensed in Texas
23 yrs
Since 6 Nov 2002
Texas discipline
None
Per State Bar, 16 Jul 2026
Background
Founder of Amaro Law Firm, with eight Texas offices and a dedicated rideshare accident practice page. A member of the Texas Bar College. Licensed in five states — Texas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico and Wisconsin — of which we have checked one.
Four other state licences unchecked — Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Wisconsin
Verification
Texas: eligible to practise, #24036134 — State Bar, checked 16 Jul 2026
No Public Disciplinary History — State Bar of Texas
Texas Bar College member · contingency · Spanish
Dedicated rideshare accident practice page
Dallas1 lawyer
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Shane V. Mullen
✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026
Mullen & Mullen · Dallas, TX · covers Texas
Personal injury firm
Uber & Lyft
Credentials
Licensed in Texas
23 yrs
Since 6 Nov 2002
Texas discipline
None
Per State Bar, 16 Jul 2026
Background
A father-and-son practice of two to five lawyers, registered as Law Office of Regis Mullen Inc. Publishes case names and a cause number alongside its figures — the most checkable results disclosure on this site — and advertises a 29% contingency fee, below the usual Texas range.
His own site reports a Missouri admission his Texas profile does not — unchecked
Verification
Texas: eligible to practise, #24037152 — State Bar, checked 16 Jul 2026
No Public Disciplinary History — State Bar of Texas
Publishes case names and a cause number — rare
29% contingency fee advertised — below the Texas norm
What the Texas register tells you
Every state’s bar register answers a slightly different question, and Texas answers a narrower one than it first appears to. This matters for reading the two listings above.
The State Bar of Texas publishes its own disciplinary finding, under its own name, and stands behind it. Both lawyers here show No Public Disciplinary History. That part is a genuine check by the body that would know.
Then Texas does something most states don’t: it tells you which half of the page it didn’t write.
✓ The Bar’s own record
Reported by the lawyer
Name · bar card number · licence date · eligibility to practise · public disciplinary history · law school
Firm · firm size · practice areas · fee options · courts of admittance · other states licensed · languages · services
The Bar prints the warning itself: this information is self-reported by Texas attorneys, and current licence or admittance status can only be certified by the appropriate court or licensing entity.
Why that isn’t a technicality
Both Texas profiles carry the line “Other States Licensed: None Reported By Attorney”. It reads like a finding. It isn’t — it’s a sentence the lawyer typed, and nothing prompts anyone to revisit it.
Mullen’s listing proves it. His Texas profile reports no other states. His own website lists the State Bar of Missouri, 2015. Two self-reports by the same person, eleven years apart, that don’t agree. Almost certainly nothing more than a stale field — but it means one of his two state registers is unopened, and the Texas page would never tell you that.
Amaro reports five state licences — Texas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico and Wisconsin. We’ve checked one. The other four are his statement, not a record.
So the honest reading of both Texas listings: clean in Texas, unchecked everywhere else. That’s what the badge means here, and it means something different in Georgia, where the register’s window covers a lawyer’s entire career.
One coincidence worth a line
Amaro and Mullen were licensed on the same day — 6 November 2002. Both graduated in May of that year, from Wisconsin and South Texas College of Law respectively. Our two Texas lawyers are, by accident of our selection, the same admission class. It tells you nothing useful. We liked it.
What we haven’t checked
Not established. Four of Amaro’s five state licences (Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Wisconsin) and Mullen’s Missouri admission — five registers we haven’t opened. Court records for any settlement figure, including the cause number Mullen publishes. What Mullen’s 29% fee covers. Neither firm’s other lawyers. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
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