Bill Hammer has been the President of Hammer & Associates since 1984. He is a licensed lawyer and engaged as a full time, professional ADR Neutral in the State of Nevada, as well as other states in which he is admitted to practice. His legal practice concentrated on commercial construction, trade secrets, real estate, development & zoning, and title insurance issues. His ADR practice focuses on serious injury cases; wrongful death, gaming disputes, business, commercial, and corporate ownership/shareholder disputes; pharmaceutical injury; construction, design, mechanics liens, and defects; and settlement allocation among numerous claimants.

He has been a Chief Criminal Deputy District Attorney for Clark County; a Chief Deputy Attorney General for the Gaming Division; a Short Trial Presiding Judge since 2002; Eighth Judicial District Court Mediator and Arbitrator, an arbitrator and mediator on the National Panels for Construction and Commercial Disputes for the American Arbitration Association since 1987; a Nevada Supreme Court Settlement Judge since 1997; a member of Mediators of Southern Nevada since 2005; a member of the International Association of Mediators; and a Private Mediator and Arbitrator in over 400 cases. Mr. Hammer was appointed by the County Commission as the initial Chairperson of the Clark County Ethical Standards Committee, where he authored the first standards of suggested ethical conduct for Clark County employees.

Mr. Hammer was admitted to the Bar Associations of Nevada-1974; Texas-1974; Colorado-1991; New Mexico-1993; California-1996; Wyoming-1996; United States Supreme Court-1975; U.S. District Court for Nevada; Southern, Central and Northern District of California; Southern and Western Districts of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Fifth Circuits. He is currently a member of the State Bar of Nevada Fee Dispute and ADR Committees; formerly on Disciplinary and Judicial Selection; a current member of the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, Nevada Justice Association, Clark County Bar Association and has been a Master Emeritus of the McKibben Chapter of American Inns of Court since 1997.

He graduated from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (BA, 1969; MBA, 1970); taught statistics and finance at UNLV as a Graduate Assistant; attended the University of Houston School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Houston Law Review (JD-1974) and a member of Order of the Coif and Order of Barons. Mr. Hammer authored a text during his appointment as an adjunct professor of gambling law for the School of Hotel Administration at UNLV; he has been a speaker at numerous seminars concerning ADR, the Short Trial Program, real estate, and trial practice in personal injury, commercial, and real estate matters.

Mr. Hammer has made Nevada his home since 1965; enjoys all sports, hiking, climbing, camping, target and skeet shooting, riding mountain bikes, and restoring/driving/showing Classic Mustangs. He is married and has three grown sons.

He was appointed to the Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics by the State Bar of Nevada in December 2011. His term expires December 31, 2013.