Glen Lerner built a Las Vegas advertising-driven practice out of a struggling storefront legal shop; Kevin Rowe brought a Phi Beta Kappa transcript and Arizona bar admission. The two met in 1998, partnered as the practice expanded into Arizona, and opened a joint Bullhead City office in 2005 that grew into a seven-state firm now reporting more than $2 billion recovered for clients.
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AT A GLANCE
| FIRM Lerner & Rowe Injury Attorneys | FOUNDED 2005, Bullhead City, Arizona; rebranded from Glen Lerner Injury Attorneys in 2019 |
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| FOUNDERS Glen J. Lerner (Nevada-barred) & Kevin M. Rowe (Arizona-barred) | PRACTICE FOCUS Personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort/product liability |
| PHOENIX OFFICE 2701 E Camelback Rd, Ste 140, Phoenix, AZ 85016 | FOOTPRINT 7 states — AZ, NV, CA, NM, TN, IL, IN |
| SIGNATURE EDGE One of the few firms in this series built by two separately-barred solo practices that merged rather than a single founder | TRACK RECORD Firm reports recovering more than $2 billion for clients, including roughly $1 billion in the five years before this profile |
| RECOGNITION Kevin Rowe: National Association of Distinguished Counsel, “Nation’s Top Attorneys” (2017) | CONTACT (602) 977-1900 · lernerandrowe.com |
Most Phoenix personal-injury firms trace their origin to a single founder. Lerner & Rowe traces its origin to two of them, practicing a thousand miles apart, who didn’t meet until both were already building injury practices of their own — one through late-night television advertising, the other through a more conventional law-school-and-bar-admission path.
Today, Lerner & Rowe Injury Attorneys operates a Phoenix office on East Camelback Road, with additional Valley locations in Glendale/Arrowhead, Mesa, and Gilbert, and reports having recovered more than $2 billion for over 150,000 clients across Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana.
Origin: Two Very Different Paths Into Personal Injury
Glen Lerner has said he worked as a Teamster and a garbage man before law school — jobs he credits with teaching him how to relate to the working-class clients he later represented, per his own professional biography. He played a year of varsity soccer at Dartmouth College before transferring to Duke University, where he was a member of the Blue Devils’ 1986 NCAA Division I men’s soccer national championship team, graduating in 1987 with a degree in religious studies. He earned his J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 1990 and was admitted to the Nevada State Bar in 1991.
After law school, Lerner moved to Las Vegas, bought a small operation called Budget Legal, and grew it into a 20-plus-employee practice. In 1998 he rebranded it as Glen Lerner and Associates and narrowed its focus to personal injury, built on the kind of ubiquitous local television advertising that made his name recognizable across Las Vegas. Lerner remains licensed to practice law only in Nevada; the firm’s expansion into Arizona and beyond has been built on partnership with state-specific counsel, principally Kevin Rowe.
Kevin Rowe’s path looks different on paper: born and raised in Southern California, cum laude from the University of Washington with Division I soccer and a Phi Beta Kappa induction, then a J.D. from Southwestern Law School in 1997 and admission to the Arizona Supreme Court and federal courts. Rowe and Lerner met in 1998; by the mid-2000s, Rowe had become Lerner’s partner in the firm’s expansion into Arizona, the market that would become the practice’s flagship, culminating in a joint Bullhead City office in 2005.
From Two Solo Practices to a Seven-State Firm
Growth from the 2005 Bullhead City office was steady rather than sudden: by 2017, per the firm’s own history, the practice had grown to ten lawyers across three Arizona offices — two in Tucson and one in Phoenix. The firm added New Mexico and Tennessee offices in 2017 and 2018, and maintained Lerner’s original Nevada base and a later Chicago office, both operating for years under the separate “Glen Lerner and Associates” name. In 2019, the partners consolidated everything under a single brand: Lerner & Rowe Injury Attorneys.
The firm now reports offices in seven states with more than 35 attorneys, supported by case managers, paralegals, and a 24/7 intake operation. Client-facing attorneys named in the firm’s own materials include Jeffrey Fronczak, Andrew Gaggin, Edward Earle, and Richard Hutchison in Arizona, alongside Rowe’s own active caseload of catastrophic and complex matters. The firm also operates a separate, co-branded Lerner & Rowe Law Group handling criminal defense/DUI and bankruptcy matters outside the personal-injury practice proper.
What Lerner & Rowe Handles
- Car, motorcycle, truck, and bicycle accidents (per the firm)
- Rideshare (Uber/Lyft) and pedestrian accidents (per the firm)
- Slip-and-fall and premises-liability claims (per the firm)
- Wrongful death (per the firm)
- Medical malpractice (per the firm)
- Dangerous drugs and defective products, including mass-tort matters such as hernia mesh, transvaginal mesh, and talcum powder litigation (per the firm)
The firm works on a standard contingency-fee basis — no fee unless it recovers for the client — and advertises free consultations, 24/7 phone and live-chat availability, bilingual English/Spanish staff, and a discount program for military and first-responder clients.
Track Record
Lerner & Rowe reports having recovered more than $2 billion for clients over the life of the practice, including, per the firm’s current published figures, roughly $1 billion in the five years leading up to this profile. The firm publishes a running list of representative case results; two examples illustrate the range of its Phoenix-area work: a $10,000,000 settlement for a motorcyclist injured in an accident, and a $4,230,000 jury verdict against a driver for failure to stop at a red light (both firm-reported).
Past-Results Disclaimer. Every case is different, and results depend on each matter’s specific facts and circumstances. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any other matter. Figures above are reported by the firm on its own published materials and have not been independently audited by Awesome Attorneys.
In Their Clients’ Words
Public reviews of the firm’s Phoenix office, aggregated across Yelp, Google, and the Martindale-Avvo network, rarely mention Glen Lerner or Kevin Rowe personally and instead single out the specific staff member who handled a client’s file day to day. Reviewers have named attorney Jeffrey Jones and a legal assistant identified as Alicia for repeated praise, while other reviews credit case managers such as Crystal Lee and Donna Mazia with keeping clients informed and managing insurance paperwork. Not every review is positive; as with any large, high-volume firm, some describe frustration with case-team turnover or the pace of communication on more routine claims, and prospective clients should weigh both patterns.
Beyond the Courtroom
Lerner & Rowe’s community profile centers on Lerner and Rowe Gives Back, a nonprofit founded by Kevin Rowe that partners with organizations serving children facing poverty or illness, the homeless, and local animal-welfare groups, per the organization’s own materials. Documented initiatives include a partnership with Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS) to fund teen centers and back-to-school backpack giveaways for Phoenix-area children.
Recognition
Kevin Rowe was designated among the top 1% of practicing attorneys in the country by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel in 2017, and his professional memberships include the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, the Maricopa County Bar Association, the Scottsdale Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the American Bar Association. The firm’s own award materials also cite recognitions from Super Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, and Avvo’s Client’s Choice program, along with local reader-poll recognition as “Best Personal Injury Law Firm” in the Phoenix Valley — all firm-attributed claims rather than an Awesome Attorneys assessment.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information about Arizona law, not legal advice. Arizona’s general statute of limitations for personal injury claims is two years (A.R.S. § 12-542). Claims against a government entity — relevant to any of this firm’s bus, municipal-vehicle, or public-property cases — instead require a Notice of Claim within 180 days of the injury (A.R.S. § 12-821.01), followed by a one-year period to file suit (A.R.S. § 12-821), both far shorter than the standard two-year window. Arizona is a pure comparative-negligence state (A.R.S. § 12-2505): a claimant’s own fault reduces, rather than bars, recovery. For minors and people of unsound mind, the personal-injury limitations clock is tolled until the disability ends (A.R.S. § 12-502).
This section is general legal information about Arizona statutes, not legal advice, and may not reflect changes after July 2026. Anyone with a potential injury claim should consult a licensed Arizona attorney promptly.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Lerner & Rowe’s story is less about a single lawyer’s rise and more about what happens when an advertising-driven solo practice and a traditionally credentialed trial lawyer combine forces and keep scaling. The result, two decades after their first Bullhead City office, is a seven-state firm with a genuinely large Phoenix presence, a nine-figure annual recovery pace by its own reporting, and a service model built around case-management teams rather than face time with either name partner — a trade-off worth understanding before choosing this firm over a smaller, founder-led practice.
METHODOLOGY & SOURCING
This profile was compiled from publicly available sources, including the firm’s own website (lernerandrowe.com) and its attorney biography, about, results, and community-outreach pages; third-party legal directories (Justia, Lawyers.com, Super Lawyers, Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell, ZoomInfo); local business and consumer listings (Yelp, BBB, Facebook, LinkedIn); and local press coverage of the firm’s community programs. Recovery figures, awards, and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel recognition are the firm’s own published claims or third-party directory listings and are attributed as such. Client review themes are paraphrased from publicly posted reviews rather than reproduced verbatim. All figures, dates, and credentials should be re-verified against primary sources prior to publication.
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