Mike Amos

Every injury case is an argument about what actually happened. Mike Amos has spent thirty years finding out.

He graduated from the University of Louisville in 1996 with a degree in Administration of Justice, a minor in Military Science, cum laude, and was selected as the Distinguished Military Graduate of the ROTC program. He commissioned as an Infantry officer. Within a few years he was commanding an infantry company responsible for turning 230 soldiers at a time into Infantrymen, and he was back at U of L as an Assistant Professor of Military Science, mentoring 80 cadets.

In 2001 he joined the Louisville Metro Police Department. He began is career as a patrol officer and later served as a field training officer and detective. After promoting to Sergeant, he commanded platoons of police officers within the patrol division, supervised the department’s school resource officers, and later was in charge of the Recruitment and Selection Unit. He was awarded the department’s Medal of Valor and earned the academic award for the highest GPA in his police academy class. He completed over 2,699 hours of law enforcement and legal training, including basic and advanced Reid Technique interviewing and interrogation, intermediate crime scene processing, and street level investigations.

He did not leave the Army to do it.

From 2001 to 2019 Mike ran both careers at once. He deployed to Iraq as a Major, serving as the Joint Operations Officer for a Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center and the Operations Officer for a Military Intelligence Battalion. He was the responsible for  manning, equipping, training, and deploying the Army Reserve’s first interrogation battalion, over 160 soldiers, to the Iraq theater in under nine months. That unit earned the United States Army Superior Unit Award.

He completed his career as a Lieutenant Colonel at United States European Command, where he helped the Intelligence directorate stand up an Insider Threat Program under presidential directive and made sure it did not erode civil liberties, civil rights, or privacy protections. His director rated him in the top 15% of officers and recommended him for battalion command. He retired in 2019 after 23 years in uniform.

Then he went to law school. Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law, with CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Criminal Law, Civil Trial Practice, and Business Organizations.

Twenty-three years in the Army. Twenty-four on the police force. Eighteen of them at the same time. Then a law degree.

Here is what that buys you. Insurance companies defend claims by telling a story about what happened to you. Mike has spent his entire career taking stories apart. He knows how an investigation is supposed to be run, which means he knows when one was run badly. He knows what an account sounds like when it stops holding together. He has processed the scene, worked the evidence, and testified about all of it under cross examination.

He is the second Lieutenant Colonel at this firm. That is not a coincidence.

He is the second Lieutenant Colonel at this firm. That is not a coincidence.

Military Service & Leadership

Mike Amos served 23 years in the United States Army and Army Reserve, commissioned in 1996 and retired in 2019 as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Command and Operations: Commanded a U.S. Army Infantry company training over 230 soldiers at a time. Assistant Professor of Military Science, University of Louisville ROTC. Mobile Training Team Commander. Organized force protection training for over 800 soldiers and 12 units deploying to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Selected to draft the field manual for a machine gun fielded to the 101st Airborne Division ahead of the official manual. It was used by every heavy weapons squad in the division.

Iraq: Joint Operations Officer, Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center and military intelligence battalion. Operations Officer, the Army Reserve’s first interrogation battalion. Manned, equipped, mobilized, trained, and deployed over 160 soldiers to the Iraq theater in under nine months. The unit earned the United States Army Superior Unit Award.

United States European Command:  Helped the Intelligence directorate establish an Insider Threat Program under presidential directive, built to protect civil liberties, civil rights, and privacy. Coordinated the directorate’s annual Ballistic Missile Defense Working Group and a NATO/SHAPE counterintelligence workshop. Rated in the top 15% of officers by the Director of Intelligence and recommended for battalion command.