Jack Wagoner III

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​      Jack Wagoner III, the founder of the Wagoner Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away unexpected on April 23, 2024.

​      Jack had the highest ethical and legal ability rating in the MartindaleHubbell Law Directory. The "AV" rating signifies that Jack Wagoner III is considered a "pre-eminent" lawyer with the highest ethical standards and has held this distinction for over 18 years. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings are derived through anonymous polling of Arkansas lawyers and judges familiar with Jack and his practice.

     Jack for eighteen consecutive years, has been listed in the publication "Best Lawyers in America" (Bestlawyers.com). He has also been listed for each of the last seventeen years as one of the Best Lawyers in Arkansas by the Arkansas Times news magazine. He has been the featured speaker on numerous occasions at continuing education seminars conducted by the Arkansas Trial Lawyers' Association and the Arkansas Bar Association. He has served as a special judge in Pulaski County Circuit Court.

​      Jack, in 1988, graduated with honors from U.A.L.R.  Bowen School of Law.  While in law school, Jack served as Associate Editor of the U.A.L.R. Law Journal.

      Jack was a trial lawyer and had successfully litigated a wide variety of cases before Arkansas judges and juries.  He recovered approximately forty million dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients in a variety of cases including business litigation, products liability, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and nursing home neglect and abuse.

Jack is the namesake of the Jack Wagoner Scholarship fund, which provides an academic scholarship each year to a worthy student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law. Jack has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the law school, teaching family law to second and third year law students.

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