Lewis Moore spent twelve years defending insurance companies and then served as an Arizona Assistant Attorney General defending the state and ADOT in highway-defect litigation, before deciding in 2005 that his future was representing the injured people on the other side of those very cases.
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AT A GLANCE
| FIRM Moore Injury Law | FOUNDED 2009; Phoenix, Arizona |
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| FOUNDER Lewis B. “Lew” Moore III (B.S., University of Arizona, 1986) | PRIOR CAREER 12 years defending insurers; later Arizona Assistant Attorney General (ADOT litigation) |
| PRACTICE FOCUS Personal injury & wrongful death, including a specific highway-defect practice | PHOENIX OFFICE 5070 N 40th St, Ste 240, Phoenix, AZ 85018 |
| SIGNATURE EDGE Rare combined background in private insurance defense and state highway-defect defense, now applied for plaintiffs (per the firm) | ATTORNEYS Lewis B. Moore III and Christopher M. Bistany |
| LANGUAGES Spanish-language service available (per the firm) | CONTACT (602) 795-6605 · mooreinjurylaw.com |
A Phoenix native raised in the Arcadia neighborhood and educated at Brophy College Preparatory and the University of Arizona, Lewis Moore spent the first twelve years of his legal career defending insurance companies against personal-injury claims. He then took a position as an Arizona Assistant Attorney General, defending the state and the Arizona Department of Transportation in complex highway-defect, design, and maintenance litigation — work that gave him an unusually specific vantage point on how the government defends against the exact category of claim, road and highway defects, that his firm now brings on behalf of injured clients.
In 2005, Moore moved to plaintiff’s-side injury work, and in 2009 founded Moore Injury Law. This profile covers his background, what the firm handles, and what its clients say about a practice built on two different kinds of defense-side experience.
Origin: Insurance Defense, Then the Attorney General’s Office, Then a Switch
Lewis B. Moore III graduated with a B.S. from the University of Arizona in 1986 after attending Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix. Per his own account, he spent his first twelve years after law school working for large insurance companies, defending them against personal-injury claims. He then accepted a position as an Arizona Assistant Attorney General, where he litigated complex highway-defect, design, and maintenance cases on behalf of the State of Arizona and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).
In 2005, per his own telling, Moore concluded that his professional fulfillment lay in representing people injured in accidents rather than defending the institutions on the other side, and he began a private plaintiff’s-injury practice; he founded Moore Injury Law in 2009. He is joined at the firm by attorney Christopher M. Bistany, also an Arizona native.
What Moore Injury Law Handles
- Car, trucking, and bus accidents (per the firm)
- Bicycle, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents (per the firm)
- Brain and spinal-cord injuries (per the firm)
- Highway defects — a practice area directly connected to Moore’s Assistant Attorney General experience (per the firm)
- Dog bites; slip-and-fall and premises-liability claims (per the firm)
- Uninsured/underinsured motorist claims (per the firm)
- Wrongful death, products liability, and liquor liability/dram shop claims (per the firm)
The firm works on a contingency-fee basis, offers free case evaluations, and advertises Spanish-language service (“Si hablo español”). Its own site notes plainly that it does not handle every type of claim — publicly responding to at least one inquiry about a non-profit expulsion dispute by explaining that it falls outside the firm’s practice.
In Their Clients’ Words
Public reviews describe Lew Moore personally, alongside a staff member identified as Rhea, as hands-on throughout a case. One reviewer, involved in what they described as a life-altering 2018 car accident, credited the firm with protecting them from what they characterized as an unfair insurance-company process; another, rear-ended in late 2020, described the firm as dedicated and closely involved throughout the claim.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information about Arizona law, not legal advice, and is especially relevant given this firm’s specific highway-defect practice. Arizona’s general statute of limitations for personal injury and wrongful death claims is two years (A.R.S. § 12-542). Because highway-defect and design claims are typically brought against a state or local government entity such as ADOT or a county, they are also subject to the much shorter Notice of Claim requirement — 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) — and a one-year period to file suit (A.R.S. § 12-821), rather than the standard two-year window. Arizona is a pure comparative-negligence state (A.R.S. § 12-2505).
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, particularly one involving a government road or highway, should consult a licensed Arizona attorney promptly given the shortened deadlines involved.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Moore Injury Law’s founder brings a genuinely unusual double background to this series: twelve years defending insurers, followed by a stint defending the state itself in the specific highway-defect litigation his firm now pursues for injured clients. That combination is difficult to manufacture as a marketing narrative, and it maps directly onto one of the firm’s stated practice areas. Client reviews describing hands-on, personal attention from Moore himself are consistent with a small, founder-led practice rather than a large case-management operation.
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