Amy Oleksa

Managing Pre-Litigation Attorney and Personal Injury Advocate in North Carolina

Amy Oleksa is the Managing Pre-Litigation Attorney at Horton & Mendez Injury Lawyers, based in the Charlotte metro. Amy leads the firm’s pre-litigation team, guiding injured clients and their families through the earliest, and most consequential, stages of their personal injury claims. Her focus is on building each file for maximum value from day one, so that cases are either resolved on the client’s terms before suit or handed to the firm’s trial team in the strongest possible posture.

Amy’s background is uniquely suited to the pre-litigation role. She began her career as an Assistant Public Defender in Mecklenburg County, accumulating extensive North Carolina District Court trial experience before spending nearly a decade as a civil defense attorney and as a Shareholder. There, she defended physicians, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, governmental entities, retailers, manufacturers, and insurance carriers in negligence, medical malpractice, and personal injury claims across the state. Most recently, she served as a Third-Party Administrator, evaluating and resolving claims from the carrier’s side of the table. Having sat in every seat — criminal attorney, defense trial lawyer, claims manager, and plaintiff’s counsel — Amy brings an unmatched perspective to how insurers think, how adjusters assign value, and how defense counsel prepares for trial.

Before joining Horton & Mendez, Amy spent seven years serving as Senior Pre-Litigation Attorney for a one of North Carolina’s largest plaintiff firms directing case strategy and supervising a staff of more than thirty legal and administrative professionals. That operational discipline now powers the pre-litigation practice at Horton & Mendez.

Amy lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family, where she has built her entire legal career and is a proud, longtime member of the Mecklenburg County legal community.