Ilya Lerma

Ilya E. Lerma is a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, practicing through The Law Office of Ilya E. Lerma LLC, known as Ilya Law. She handles complex injury cases across Arizona, including dram shop claims against bars and restaurants that over-serve drunk drivers, commercial truck collisions, auto defect and product liability cases, traumatic brain injuries, nursing home abuse and neglect, insurance bad faith and professional negligence.

Lerma was admitted to practice in Arizona and the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in 1999. Before opening her own office, she practiced with Tidmore Law Offices and Tidmore & Lerma, and early in her career worked with the Pima County Public Defender’s felony division. She earned her law degree in 1998 from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, cum laude, from Northern Arizona University in 1995. She speaks Spanish and English.

She served as president of the Arizona Association for Justice in 2022 after years on its board and executive board, and she sat on the Arizona Supreme Court Task Force on Alternative Business Structures in 2024. She was named Arizona Trial Lawyer-Volunteer Lawyer of the Year in 2014 and lectures widely to trial lawyer groups around the country on witness preparation, voir dire, opening statements and brain injury cases.