James Wood Law

James Wood Law is an attorney practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico, focused on medical malpractice. The firm represents injured patients and their families across New Mexico and Arizona who have suffered harm from negligent medical care, including care from doctors, nurses, surgeons, and pharmacists. Its attorneys handle high-stakes, complex medical malpractice claims, with areas of focus that include misdiagnosis, surgical error, hospital negligence, and brain injuries. The firm accepts calls 24/7 and arranges free case reviews. It holds a rating of 4.50 based on 48 reviews.

The firm's attorneys have stood up to medical institutions, healthcare corporations, and insurance companies for more than 60 years. James Wood is a Double Board Certified Trial Lawyer, certified in the State of Texas and nationally, and represents individuals, children, and families against corporations, insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law with Honors, where he served as Chief Articles Editor of the Oklahoma Law Review, was a member of the National Moot Court Team, and worked as a teaching assistant at Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College.

Ty Wood graduated cum laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2014, served on the Editorial Board of the New Mexico Law Review, and worked as a teaching assistant for the law school's first-year legal writing class. He later joined the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender as a Deputy State Public Defender before joining James Wood Law in 2015. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in New Mexico and Arizona in Plaintiff's Medical Malpractice for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, has won multiple jury trials, and has settled cases worth many millions of dollars.

The firm's office sits on Marble Ave NW, about a tenth of a mile from 6th Street Northwest, 5th Street Northwest, and Lomas Boulevard Northwest. Saint Vincent Academy, the Harwood Art Center and Montessori, and the Harwood Art Center are each roughly a tenth of a mile away.

James Wood Law has built a solid reputation among the customers it has served, with a steady record of repeat and referred clients. For patients and families in Albuquerque dealing with harm from negligent medical care, that record of standing up to hospitals and insurers is the work the firm is known for.