Amberley Hammer is a trial lawyer in our firm and focuses her law practice on cases involving medical negligence and personal injury. She is committed to fighting for the injured and helping them seek justice and fair compensation for their injuries. Mrs. Hammer has obtained successful verdicts and confidential settlements for infants and adults who have been injured by medical negligence, automobile accidents and through the acts or omissions of negligent corporations. She enjoys litigation involving birth injuries and brain injuries.

Mrs. Hammer is one of the few lawyers in Virginia committed to helping newborns who have suffered neurological birth injuries seek assistance from the Virginia Birth Injury Program. She has successfully helped brain injured infants get accepted into the Birth Injury Program so that their daily financial needs are taken care of to lessen the financial burden on their parents. She has also obtained successful verdicts and settlements for infants who were injured during the birthing process by negligence.

In addition to her passion for helping injured children and adults as the result of medical negligence, Mrs. Hammer has vast experience in representing the injured against corporations and insurance companies. Whether a person has been injured as the result of a defective product or a hazardous condition, no injury should go unrecognized that is the result of negligence.

Mrs. Hammer was born in Norfolk, Virginia and raised in Chesapeake. She has been a resident of Tidewater her whole life. Amberley Hammer earned her B.A. in English, cum laude, from Old Dominion University in 1995 and her J.D., cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1998. Amberley was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1998 and served as a federal law clerk from 1998 to 1999 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. She is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and United States District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. She served as the Chair of the Young Lawyers Section for the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association where she oversaw community projects. She is a member of the Virginia, Federal, and Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Associations and has served on the Publication and CLE Committees of the Virginia Trial Lawyers. Mrs. Hammer has been named as one of Virginia’s Rising Stars in Super Lawyers Magazine from 2006 through 2010. She has also been a Guest Faculty for the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary. Mrs. Hammer recently received a Commendation of Distinction Certificate by the Norfolk School Board in 2009 for assisting middle school students in the Mock Trial Program. Mrs. Hammer’s practice areas include Medical Negligence, Personal Injury and Civil Litigation.