Glazer Hammond Flagstaff: At a Glance
| Firm | Glazer, Hammond & Smets, PLLC |
|---|---|
| Founded | January 2018 (merger); Keith A. Hammond, P.C. founded 1990 |
| PI Attorney | Keith A. Hammond |
| Location | Flagstaff, AZ |
| Practice Areas | Personal injury (plaintiff’s side), criminal defense/DUI, estate planning, family law |
| Admitted | Arizona, 1988 |
| Website | glazerhammond.com |
Origin & Founder History
Keith A. Hammond, the personal injury attorney at Glazer Hammond in Flagstaff, earned a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1985 and a J.D. from Drake University in 1988, then began practicing in Flagstaff that same year. He formed his own firm, Keith A. Hammond, P.C., in June 1990. In January 2018, Hammond combined his practice with Stephen R. Glazer’s Glazer Law Office to form Glazer Hammond, PLLC (later expanded to Glazer, Hammond & Smets with the addition of Jacob R. Smets). Per the firm’s own structure, attorneys specialize by department rather than handling everything: Hammond leads personal injury and shares criminal defense work, Glazer focuses on criminal defense and estate planning, and Smets handles criminal defense.
Practice-Area Breakdown
Hammond “primarily practices in the area of plaintiff’s personal injury and criminal defense,” according to his Justia attorney profile, which lists his PI sub-areas as car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, premises liability, and dog bites. This is a multi-department general practice firm, not a PI-exclusive shop — personal injury sits alongside criminal defense, DUI defense, estate planning, and family law under one roof, with Hammond specifically responsible for the injury docket.
Track Record
| Metric | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Personal injury client recoveries, January 2007–end of 2014 | $4,509,530 | Keith Hammond’s Justia attorney profile |
| Jury trials tried (Hammond, through April 2015) | 41 | Justia attorney profile |
| Criminal cases handled (Hammond, through Jan. 2018) | 1,000+, including 350+ DUI cases | Firm’s own attorney biography page |
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; each case is decided on its own facts. These figures date to 2014–2018 and Awesome Attorneys was not able to locate a more recent published update to the personal injury recovery total.
Client Voice
Reviews on the firm’s own site and Avvo are strongly positive, though most describe Hammond’s criminal defense work rather than PI cases specifically — consistent with a dual-focus practice. One client specific to an injury matter wrote that Hammond and his legal assistant “made my journey through an injury due to a negligent driver very thoughtful.” Awesome Attorneys treats firm-hosted testimonials with appropriate caution since they are curated by the firm itself, but found consistent sentiment on independent platforms (Avvo, Lawyers.com) as well.
Community & Beyond the Courtroom
Awesome Attorneys did not find independently reportable civic or charitable activity specific to Hammond beyond his professional practice and the firm’s general community-focused messaging.
Recognition
Awesome Attorneys did not find evidence of Super Lawyers selection, Best Lawyers recognition, Martindale-Hubbell peer ratings, or Arizona State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certification for Hammond specifically.
Arizona Legal Backdrop
Anyone pursuing a personal injury claim in Arizona should know a few statutory basics. Under A.R.S. § 12-542, most personal injury claims must be filed within two years of the injury. If the at-fault party is a government entity, separate and much shorter deadlines apply: A.R.S. § 12-821.01 requires a notice of claim within 180 days, and A.R.S. § 12-821 requires the lawsuit itself to be filed within one year. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence under A.R.S. § 12-2505, meaning an injured person can still recover damages even if partly at fault, with recovery reduced by their percentage of fault. For minors or people who are legally incapacitated, A.R.S. § 12-502 can toll these deadlines.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Glazer Hammond Flagstaff’s personal injury practice, led by Keith Hammond, is genuine and long-running — a specific, dated recovery figure ($4.5 million, 2007–2014) and 41 tried jury trials are meaningfully more concrete than many firms in this directory provide. The honest caveat is that this figure is now roughly a decade stale with no published update found, and this is a general-practice firm where Hammond’s injury docket sits alongside a larger criminal-defense operation — most of the firm’s visible client reviews describe criminal matters rather than PI cases. Prospective injury clients should ask directly for more recent case outcomes.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was compiled from Glazer, Hammond & Smets’ own website (glazerhammond.com), Keith Hammond’s Justia and Lawyers.com attorney profiles, and Lexinter’s attorney directory.
Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice
This profile is part of Awesome Attorneys’ independently researched directory of Arizona personal injury firms. Glazer, Hammond & Smets did not pay for inclusion or influence its content. Awesome Attorneys periodically offers paid, clearly labeled sponsored placements as a separate product; this editorial profile is not one of them.