N. Russell Hazlewood

N. Russell Hazlewood is an attorney with Graybill & Hazlewood in Wichita, Kansas, where he focuses on civil litigation. He has spent 28 years representing individuals and small businesses, particularly in disputes involving insurance companies. His practice includes insurance coverage and claim disputes, personal injury, wrongful death, business litigation, probate litigation, and consumer law protection matters. He regularly prosecutes and defends substantial claims and also serves as a mediator in disputes involving many of the same issues he handles as litigation counsel.

Russell earned a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1997 and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas School of Business in 1994. During law school, he served on the staff of the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy. He is admitted to practice in Kansas state and federal courts and before the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. His legal and business education supports a practice involving complex coverage questions, commercial disputes, damages, and contested claims.

Russell has litigation work that includes both prosecution and defense of multimillion-dollar claims. His experience spans insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation, personal injury and wrongful death matters, probate conflicts, and consumer protection cases. He has served as counsel of record in numerous reported decisions in Kansas state and federal courts, including cases involving insurance coverage, commercial disputes, and other civil issues. His work requires detailed legal research, discovery, motion practice, negotiation, trial preparation, and appellate analysis when disputes continue beyond the trial court level.

N. Russell Hazlewood has also held significant leadership roles within the Kansas trial bar. His official biography identifies him as a Past President of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association and a longtime member of its Board of Governors’ Executive Committee. He has served for more than a decade as Insurance Law Editor for the association’s journal and founded the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association Trial Academy, where he continues to lead and teach. He combines long-term civil litigation experience with mediation work and professional leadership while representing clients in complex disputes involving insurers, businesses, estates, and serious personal injuries.

Law Office Affiliations

• Managing Attorney, Graybill & Hazlewood, L.L.C.
• Past President, Board of Governors, Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
• Member, Wichita Bar Association
• Member, Kansas Bar Association

Licensed State

• Kansas

Education

• University of Kansas School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Kansas School of Business
  BS in Bus. Admin

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