James E. Murphy

Partner - Trial Lawyer

22 yrs experience
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Bar admitted 2003
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Las Vegas, NV

Bar admissions

Nevada
2003
Colorado
2026
U.S. District Court, District of Nevada
2003
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
2009
U.S. Supreme Court
2010
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
2025

Memberships

Nevada State Bar - Character and Fitness Committee
Nevada State Bar - Fee Disputes Committee

Background

James E. Murphy is a Partner and Trial Lawyer at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers, focusing on aviation disasters, trucking accidents, and wrongful death cases. Murphy earned his Juris Doctor from the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law in 2003, his Master of Arts in United States History from UNLV in 2000, and his Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. Murphy spent two decades as an insurance defense attorney before transitioning to plaintiff representation, joining Claggett & Sykes in 2023. He holds a 40-hour Basic Mediation Essentials certificate and has handled over 200 Court-Appointed Attorney Arbitrator cases. He has served on the Nevada State Bar character/fitness and fee disputes committees.

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