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INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL · FIRM PROFILES · KINGMAN & BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZONA
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Fifty Years Limited to One Side of the Case
Gary Phillips built a Phoenix injury practice over four decades before opening a second chapter in Mohave County — a firm that, by its own account, represents only accident victims and has never defended an insurance company.
BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · KINGMAN & BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZONA · JULY 2026
GARY PHILLIPS ACCIDENT LAW PROFESSIONALS — AT A GLANCE
| FOUNDED BY | Gary Phillips, who began practicing law in Phoenix in 1973 and founded this firm in 2017 after more than 40 years as founding partner of Phillips & Lyon |
| FOCUS | Plaintiff-side personal injury exclusively — car, motorcycle, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, and boat accidents; dog bite claims; wrongful death |
| OFFICES | Phoenix (1212 E. Osborn Rd.), Kingman (1916 Lucille Ave., Ste. B), and Bullhead City (1984 Highway 95, Ste. 2A) |
| BACKGROUND | J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology; earlier partner at DePrima, Aranda & De Leon before co-founding Phillips & Lyon (per the firm) |
| DISTINCTIVE EDGE | The firm states it takes only cases involving accident victims seriously injured through another’s fault — no general practice, no defense work, ever, per the firm |
| FEE MODEL | Contingency, with a stated guarantee that no client will ever receive less money than the attorney’s fees (per the firm) |
Sources: garyphillipsaccidentlaw.com (firm website), Yelp, Justia, allusinjurylawyers.com. Compiled July 2026.
ORIGIN
From Chicago’s West Side to the Colorado River
Gary Phillips grew up on Chicago’s West Side, in what his firm biography describes as a melting-pot neighborhood, and came to Arizona in 1963 to attend Arizona State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1967. He began law school at the University of Houston before relocating back to Chicago to finish his J.D. at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology, working full time and attending night school to complete the degree. He returned to Phoenix and began practicing law in 1973, becoming a partner at DePrima, Aranda and De Leon before co-founding Phillips & Lyon, which he and his partner built over roughly 40 years into a well-known Valley personal injury firm, according to his biography.
In 2017, Phillips opened Gary Phillips Accident Law Professionals, extending his practice north into Mohave County with offices in Kingman and Bullhead City alongside his continuing Phoenix presence. His biography notes he has been married to his wife Rosemary for more than 40 years and has four adult children and six grandchildren.
PRACTICE
A Deliberately Narrow Docket
The firm’s stated specialties, per its Yelp business profile, are limited to car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents, boat accidents, dog bite claims, and wrongful death claims. The firm represents clients across central and northern Arizona — Maricopa County communities including Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria, Buckeye, Sun City, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, and Tempe, as well as Mohave, Yavapai, Coconino, Navajo, Pinal, and Pima Counties, per the firm’s own service-area description.
TRACK RECORD
What’s Publicly Verifiable
Awesome Attorneys did not find an itemized, dollar-by-dollar case-results page published by the firm, unlike some competitors in this series. What the firm does state, consistently across its site, is more than 50 years of combined personal injury experience and a record it describes as “consistent, proven results.” Because the firm has not published individual settlement or verdict figures, this profile does not report any — a gap Awesome Attorneys flags rather than fills with unverified numbers.
CLIENT VOICE
What Clients Report
Client Barbara Johnson, in a testimonial published by the firm, credits paralegal Pamela Newton with keeping her informed “every step of the way” and says she “could not have done this on my own.” A client identified as Kelly H., writing about a Phoenix car accident that totaled her vehicle, says Phillips “took time to talk to us personally and explained everything that we should expect in detail in an easy to understand way,” adding that the firm “did 95% of the work” and that she was “completely satisfied.” One published account from a caller the firm was ultimately unable to represent — a case outside the firm’s scope — describes Phillips spending over an hour on the phone offering free, candid advice, writing that he “was more helpful in 1 hour than my former lawyer was in nearly a year.”
COMMUNITY
Beyond the Courtroom
The firm’s public materials emphasize accessibility to central and northern Arizona communities that are farther from the state’s concentration of injury firms in metro Phoenix — opening dedicated Kingman and Bullhead City offices rather than serving Mohave County remotely from Phoenix. Awesome Attorneys did not find additional documented charitable or civic involvement beyond this geographic-access commitment and notes the gap rather than filling it with unverified claims.
RECOGNITION
Peer Standing
Awesome Attorneys did not find Gary Phillips listed in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, or Martindale-Hubbell’s peer-review directories at the time of writing. His verifiable credentials are more than 50 years of continuous Arizona legal practice beginning in 1973, his prior partnership at Phillips & Lyon, and a body of Yelp and independent-aggregator reviews that consistently praise responsiveness and personal attention rather than any formal peer-vetted award.
THE LAW
The Arizona Backdrop, in Plain English
Readers considering a personal injury claim in Arizona should understand a few ground rules. What follows is general information, not legal advice.
The two-year clock. Arizona’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims is generally two years from the date of injury (A.R.S. § 12-542).
Suing the government is faster and stricter. Claims against Arizona public entities require a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and a lawsuit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821).
Fault is shared, not all-or-nothing. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence (A.R.S. § 12-2505).
Boating accidents have their own wrinkles. Given the firm’s Colorado River-area offices and its stated boat-accident practice, clients should know that Arizona boating negligence claims can involve overlapping state and federal (admiralty) jurisdiction depending on the waterway — a detail worth raising directly with any attorney handling a boating injury case.
ASSESSMENT
The Awesome Attorneys View
Gary Phillips Accident Law Professionals offers something relatively rare in Mohave County: a founding attorney with more than 50 years of continuous, exclusively plaintiff-side experience, backed by dedicated physical offices in Kingman and Bullhead City rather than a satellite arrangement. The firm’s client accounts are specific and consistently name staff by name, suggesting genuine personal contact in a market often served remotely from Phoenix.
The honest trade-off: the firm has not published an itemized results history, so prospective clients cannot independently gauge typical settlement ranges the way they can with some competitors in this series, and its recognition profile rests on tenure and client reviews rather than peer-vetted awards. For northern Arizona accident victims who want a locally accessible, exclusively plaintiff-side firm with decades of institutional experience behind it, Gary Phillips Accident Law Professionals is a reasonable firm to interview — with the request that they ask directly about comparable past results for a claim like theirs.
METHODOLOGY & INDEPENDENCE
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website (garyphillipsaccidentlaw.com). Secondary sources: Yelp, Justia, and allusinjurylawyers.com. Gary Phillips Accident Law Professionals did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. This article is general information, not legal advice.
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