From a historic downtown Flagstaff office, Harris & Winger has represented accident victims across five northern Arizona counties since the mid-1990s — while deliberately choosing, by its own description, never to grow past the size of a genuine boutique.
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At a Glance
| FIRM | Harris & Winger, P.C. |
| FOUNDED | Mid-1990s, Flagstaff; co-founder Kevin B. Harris (per the firm) |
| LEADERSHIP | Kevin B. Harris · Chad J. Winger, who per the firm handles the bulk of the firm’s personal injury caseload |
| OFFICES | 6 E. Aspen Avenue, Suite 280, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 (historic downtown Flagstaff, Heritage Square) |
| PRACTICE FOCUS | Personal injury alongside DUI/criminal defense, family law, and estate planning — a general practice firm, not PI-exclusive |
| SIGNATURE EDGE | Deliberately small by choice, serving Flagstaff and a wide swath of rural northern Arizona that none of the Valley-based firms in this series reach |
| AREAS SERVED | Flagstaff, Page, Sedona, Williams, Cottonwood, Prescott, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Kingman, Winslow, Show Low, and Yavapai, Navajo, Mohave, Coconino, and Apache counties (per the firm) |
| TRACK RECORD | Firm describes “multiple six-figure awards for injured clients” (per the firm) — a smaller, boutique-scale figure by design, not a statewide multi-million-dollar aggregate |
| CONTACT | (928) 774-0011 · azharrislaw.com |
Every firm profiled so far in this series operates in or around metropolitan Phoenix. Harris & Winger does not: it practices out of a converted building on Heritage Square in historic downtown Flagstaff, and its personal injury clients are as likely to come from Page, Prescott, or the White Mountains as from anywhere near I-17. This profile examines a firm whose defining choice was not a technology platform or a discount fee, but a decision to stay small on purpose.
Origin: From a Congresswoman’s Firm to Harris & Winger
Kevin B. Harris earned a B.S. from Northern Arizona University in 1989 and a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1996, and has been licensed to practice in Arizona since that year with no disciplinary record found on his State Bar-sourced Avvo listing. Before the firm carried the Harris & Winger name, Harris practiced at the Arizona Law Firm of Kirkpatrick & Harris, P.C., per his own Avvo attorney record — a name that turns out to connect directly to his future law partner’s origin story, below. The firm’s own materials describe attorneys “aggressively representing clients since 1996” — the same year Harris was admitted to the Arizona bar — which this profile treats as the more reliable anchor date than the rounder “since 1995” language that appears on a third-party directory. The firm’s stated self-definition is unusually explicit about what it is not trying to be: it describes itself as choosing to “remain small by choice to provide the focused and one-on-one client service” its attorneys believe is necessary for strong outcomes, rather than pursuing the multi-office growth model several other firms in this series have adopted.
Leadership: A Managing Partner Who Followed a Congresswoman
Chad J. Winger, who the firm says handles the bulk of its personal injury caseload, has an origin story unlike any other attorney profiled in this series — one that turns out to intersect directly with Harris’s own history. Winger, raised in Provo, Utah, graduated summa cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia in 2000 with degrees in Classics and Political Science, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, before earning his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law in 2003, per his firm biography. He began his Arizona legal career at the Law Office of Florence M. Bruemmer, P.C., gaining experience in civil litigation, criminal defense, and family law, then joined Kirkpatrick & Harris, P.C. in 2006 — the same firm, per Avvo’s independent record of Harris’s career history, at which Kevin Harris was already a name partner.
That firm’s other name partner was Ann Kirkpatrick — who, following her election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008, left her law practice, and Winger became a shareholder of the renamed firm, carrying forward her caseload, per his own biography. Reading Winger’s account alongside Harris’s own record clarifies the firm’s actual lineage: Kirkpatrick & Harris, P.C. continued under its remaining partners, Harris and the newly-elevated Winger, and was at some point rebranded Harris & Winger, P.C. — making today’s firm name a direct successor to a practice that once bore a sitting member of Congress’s name. Winger is also an adjunct professor of Business Law at Northern Arizona University’s Franke College of Business.
The Differentiator: A Different Arizona Entirely
The nine other firms profiled ahead of this one in this series compete for cases within roughly an hour of downtown Phoenix. Harris & Winger’s service area is a different Arizona altogether: the firm lists Flagstaff, Page, Sedona, Williams, Cottonwood, Prescott, Bullhead City, Lake Havasu City, Prescott Valley, Kingman, Winslow, Show Low, Pinetop, Lakeside, and Holbrook among the cities it serves, spanning Yavapai, Navajo, Mohave, Coconino, and Apache counties — Northern Arizona, the White Mountains, and the Verde Valley, per the firm’s own service-area listing. That geography, not a novel fee structure or in-house technology, is this firm’s real point of differentiation within this series.
What Harris & Winger Handles
- Personal injury: auto and truck accidents, dog maulings, railroad-crossing accidents, and slip-and-fall claims (per Expertise.com and the firm)
- Spine, brain, and severe burn injury claims, pursuing both economic and non-economic damages (per Expertise.com)
- DUI defense and broader criminal defense (per the firm)
- Family law and divorce (per the firm)
- Estate planning, wills, trusts, and probate (per the firm)
Unlike the personal-injury-exclusive firms profiled elsewhere in this series, Harris & Winger is a genuine general practice — personal injury is one department among several, alongside criminal defense and family law, more comparable in structure to a full-service firm than to a dedicated accident-injury shop.
Track Record
Harris & Winger describes its results in modest, explicitly non-superlative terms relative to other firms in this series: the firm states it has achieved “multiple six-figure awards for injured clients” over its history, per its own site — a figure consistent with a boutique practice serving smaller northern Arizona markets rather than the Phoenix metro area’s larger caseloads and jury pools. No itemized dollar-results table was found in the sources reviewed for this profile.
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
Awesome Attorneys did not locate individually attributed, verifiable client reviews for Harris & Winger’s personal injury practice specifically in the sources reviewed for this profile. Rather than manufacture quotes the firm cannot stand behind, this section is limited to what the firm’s own site states about its approach: that it aims to be a firm that “tries cases in court whenever necessary,” “remains small by choice,” and “treats clients with respect” — self-description rather than third-party review, and presented here as such.
Beyond the Courtroom
Awesome Attorneys did not identify a published record of dedicated pro bono programs, scholarships, or named charitable initiatives at Harris & Winger comparable to those documented at other firms in this series. Chad Winger’s role as an adjunct professor of Business Law at Northern Arizona University is the one specific community-facing role identified in the sources reviewed.
Recognition
Harris & Winger was named among the “3 Best Personal Injury Lawyers” in Flagstaff by Expertise.com, a third-party attorney-ranking service, based on that service’s own stated evaluation criteria across more than 25 variables. Kevin Harris’s Avvo attorney record, which aggregates State Bar licensing data, shows no misconduct on file as of this research date. Awesome Attorneys did not identify additional third-party awards, Super Lawyers or Best Lawyers listings, or peer-review ratings for either attorney in the sources reviewed for this profile.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information about Arizona law, not legal advice, and applies the same statewide statutes discussed elsewhere in this series — with particular relevance here given how far this firm’s practice sits from Maricopa County’s court system. Arizona’s general statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims is two years (A.R.S. § 12-542). Arizona follows pure comparative negligence (A.R.S. § 12-2505), reducing but not barring a partly-at-fault claimant’s recovery.
Two rules carry particular weight for a rural-serving firm like this one. First, dog-mauling claims — a case type the firm specifically lists — are governed by Arizona’s strict-liability dog-bite statute (A.R.S. § 11-1025), which holds owners responsible regardless of the animal’s history, though Arizona courts apply a shorter, one-year limitations period to that specific statutory claim rather than the standard two years. Second, because northern Arizona’s road network includes long stretches of state and federal highway and significant public land, claims arising from accidents involving a government entity — a state agency, county, or municipality — require a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and suit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821), both far shorter than the general two-year window.
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 in northern Arizona should consult a licensed Arizona attorney promptly given how these deadlines vary by claim type and defendant.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Harris & Winger’s story in this series is defined by what it chose not to become: a firm descended from a practice that once bore a sitting U.S. Congresswoman’s name, now serving a five-county stretch of northern Arizona that none of the other nine firms profiled so far even claim to reach, while explicitly describing itself as staying small by design. That lineage — Kirkpatrick & Harris to Harris & Winger — and the geography together earn this firm a genuine place in this series. The honest trade-off is scale of public documentation: Harris & Winger’s results, recognition, and client-review record are thinner in the public sources available than several Phoenix-based peers, consistent with a smaller firm serving smaller markets rather than any indication of lesser quality. For a reader in Flagstaff, Prescott, or the White Mountains, Harris & Winger may simply be the only firm in this series with an office anywhere nearby.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched from Harris & Winger’s own website (azharrislaw.com), Chad J. Winger’s published attorney biography, and third-party listings including Expertise.com, FindLaw, and Yellow Pages. Facts are attributed to the firm or the cited third party throughout and were not independently re-verified against court or bar records beyond the public listings cited. Readers should confirm current service areas and practice details directly with the firm before relying on them.
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