Women Wednesday With Amy M. Stewart
Amy Stewart
Meet Amy M. Stewart, business attorney and Founder of Stewart Law Group.
Selected by Texas Lawyer in 2022 as one of the top three Attorneys in Texas, Amy is the woman you want on your team; she’s intuitive, strategic, and relentless. What sets Amy apart from other attorneys are the skills she garnered from her experience in the athletic world. Winning is in her blood – she played college basketball at Wake Forest University and coached Division I basketball at her alma mater and Tulane University before shifting her focus to wins in the courtroom. Amy’s unique background allows her to implement a dignified competitive nature to her legal practice.
Based on her experience building winning teams, Amy has an innate ability to connect with clients. By listening to her clients, Amy identifies and understands the critical success factors before developing a game plan—what does a “win” look like for this legal dispute? Amy never gives up on meeting her client’s objectives and uses her intellect and intuition to alter the game plan when issues arise. Business clients want Amy to lead and represent their interests as their outside legal counsel. Opposing counsel respects her legal acumen and her tenaciousness.
Amy has expertise in resolving contract disputes, business torts, investigations, product liability, ERISA, employment, and labor matters. In addition to her civil trial experience representing companies on the Fortune 100 list to startups, Amy is a certified Title IX Investigator by the Association of Title IX Administrators and a certified Arbitrator with the AAA, presiding over commercial, construction, and employment matters. Amy is also certified as a FINRA arbitrator and was inducted into the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals.
Do you have a personal quote or life's motto you live by?
“Be vulnerable enough to be you.” Throughout my legal career, I have had amazing mentors who were older White men, so I tried to emulate them. However, despite being the best White man I could be, it just was not resonating. As soon as I became vulnerable enough to embrace my beauty and strength as a Black woman trial lawyer, with a fierce competitive streak from my years of collegiate athletics, I began experiencing the most success, both professionally and personally.”
What inspires you?
I enjoy helping others in my community thrive. It is our obligation to lift others as we climb. As a minority and woman-owned business leader, I am driven to prove that diversity and excellence are not mutually exclusive concepts. Through community activities within the legal profession, I am inspired to promote diversity and inclusion through hiring, retention, volunteering, and mentoring minority women and LGBTQ attorneys. I am inspired by how I can pay my success forward, uplifting women throughout the legal profession and celebrating their accomplishments.
A fun fact about yourself?
I love painting and cooking; I make a mean seafood lasagna.
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