Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Civil Litigation; view more
Licensed in Texas since: 1994
Education: Texas Tech University School of Law
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Wood Law Firm, LLP
610 SW 11th AveAmarillo, TX 79101 Visit website
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The founder of the Wood Law Firm LLP, Channy F. Wood focuses his practice primarily on personal injury, wrongful death litigation, and commercial vehicle accidents. If you or a loved one has been hurt in a commercial vehicle/trucking accident please call today! Attorney Wood, has been certified in personal injury trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Located in Amarillo, he provides representation to clients throughout the state who have suffered economic and noneconomic losses due to the negligence of other persons or entities. The types of cases that Mr. Wood has been involved in in this regard have arisen out of medical malpractice, defective medical devices and drugs, nursing home abuse, commercial truck and other motor vehicle crashes, premises liability, animal bites and construction site accidents.
Mr. Wood has been able to obtain numerous high-dollar jury awards and settlements on behalf of his clients, and as a result, he is a member of the invitation-only Multi-Million Dollars Advocates Forum. His fellow attorneys have taken note of his successful track record in other ways as well. He has received both an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo, and he has been named for several consecutive years to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100.
Admitted to practice before all Texas state courts, Mr. Wood is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 5th and 10th Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States. An active participant in numerous legal associations, his memberships include the American Association for Justice, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Litigation Counsel Of America. Mr. Wood, who obtained his Juris Doctor from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1994, has also been certified as a specialist in civil trial law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.
*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff, Civil Litigation: PlaintiffFocus areas
Animal Bites, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury - Plaintiff, Premises Liability - Plaintiff, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death
- 80% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
- 20% Civil Litigation: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 1994, Texas
Professional Webpage: https://www.woodlawfirm-tx.com/channy-f-wood/
- State Bar of Texas, Committee Chairperson, 2016 – 2017
- Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyer, Personal Injury and Civil Trial, 2006 – Present
- Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow
- American Board of Trial Advocates Local Chapter, President, 2015 – 2016
- Texas, 1994
- State Bar of Texas, Consumer Law Section, Member, 1998 – Present
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1999
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Sustaining Member
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Advocates Board Member, 2001 – 2004
- State Bar of Texas, Member District 13 Grievance Committee, 2015 – Present
- State Bar of Texas, Agriculture Law Committee, Member, 2001 – 2004
- American Association of Justice, Sustaining Member, 2000 – Present
- American Board of Trial Advocates Local Chapter, Vice President, 2014 – 2015
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates, Member
- State Bar of Texas, Litigation Section, Member, 1998 – Present
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1996
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2003
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates, State Bar of Texas, Advertising Review Committee Member, 2004 – 2012
- Amarillo Young Lawyers Association, Member
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Board Member, 2004 – 2011
- American Board of Trial Advocates Local Chapter, Member, Secretary/Treasurer, 2013 – 2014
- College of the State Bar of Texas, Fellow
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Member
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1995
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1999
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Sustaining Member, 2000 – Present
- Amarillo Bar Association, Member
- Board Certified Civil Law Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 2004
- Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1999
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2011 – 2017
- AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell, 2004 – 2017
- The National Trial Lawyers, 2011 – 2014
- Texas Super Lawyer, Plaintiff’s Personal Injury, 2006 – 2017
- Top Texas Verdicts, 2010 - 2012
- Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1989, B.S., Honors: Phi Alpha Delta, Major: Agriculture Economics
- Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College, Graduate, 2012
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2006 - 2024