The Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona for 2022

For a lot of, the imaginative and prescient of management turns into clear very early in life. Significantly for individuals who go on to turn out to be one of many Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022.

“In my teenagers, I heard a management mantra: ‘Lead, observe or get the hell out of the best way,’” says Steven N. Berger, shareholder at Engelman Berger. “I selected to embrace management as the opposite two choices didn’t sound too engaging. Management by instance is one other key idea.”

Berger’s path to management led him to be be included in Az Enterprise journal’s Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022. The Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona have been chosen utilizing an algorithm that components in skilled scores and accolades, impression on Arizona’s authorized career, and impression on the communities wherein the attorneys apply. There have been greater than 1,000 attorneys into consideration for the 2022 listing.

“After legislation faculty after which clerking for Justice William J. Brennan of america Supreme Court docket, whom I admired significantly, I knew I needed to be part of a agency that adhered to the best requirements of high quality, professionalism and group involvement,” says William J. Maledon, accomplice and shareholder at Osborn Maledon. “I believe that objective was achieved with Osborn Maledon.”

Maledon isn’t the one lawyer on this yr’s listing of the Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona who have been helped on the management journey by mentors or colleagues.

“I’ve benefited professionally from sturdy and savvy leaders, and as I grew and skilled extra success in my subject, I needed to do extra for my colleagues, our associates, and our purchasers,” says Nicole Maroulakos Goodwin, Phoenix managing shareholder at Greenberg Traurig. “Dedicating time to main our workplace is my manner of giving again to the agency that has been supportive of me.”

Wendi Sorensen, a shareholder at Burch & Cracchiolo, agrees with that sentiment.

“As our agency has grown and now we have taken on youthful attorneys, I keep in mind how vital good steerage was to me after I was new on this career,” she says. “It’s vital to me to repay a few of that kindness by sharing abilities and guiding the brand new era of attorneys.”

Under are the Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022, representing excellence in management and accomplishments for the state’s progressive and distinctive authorized business. The Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022 might be acknowledged at a networking reception on February 3, 2022, on the Aviation Enterprise Heart at Scottsdale Airport. For sponsorship info, e-mail [email protected]. For details about the occasion honoring the Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022, e-mail [email protected] or click on here.

The Prime 100 Attorneys in Arizona for 2022

Andrew Abraham

President and shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo

Apply areas: Actual property legislation, actual property litigation, industrial litigation

Background: Abraham is a Licensed Specialist in Actual Property Regulation and his apply is primarily actual property legislation and litigation. Along with serving as Burch & Cracchiolo’s president, Abraham was named the Greatest Attorneys in America’s 2020 “Lawyer of the Yr” in Metro Phoenix in Actual Property Litigation. He has been acknowledged as one in every of 50 Prime Attorneys in Arizona by Southwest Tremendous Attorneys in 2011 and 2014-2021. Abraham can also be a Martindale-Hubbell 5.0 preeminent lawyer. Extra lately, he acquired the Az Enterprise Angel of the Yr award on the 2021 Az Enterprise Angels Awards.

Contact: [email protected]

Donald R. Alvarez

Companion | Radix Law

Apply areas: Civil litigation, enterprise and industrial litigation, enterprise divorces, contract disputes and enterprise torts

Background: Alvarez has been working towards legislation since 1976 and is an “AV” rated lawyer with in depth litigation expertise in lots of sorts of civil and industrial disputes. He additionally has served for over 40 years as an Arbitrator in most sorts of civil and industrial instances. He’s admitted to apply in each Arizona and New York and is a member of the Maricopa County Bar Affiliation, the Arizona Affiliation for Justice, the Scottsdale Bar Affiliation, and Arizona’s Best Attorneys (Sustaining Member). Don has additionally served on the Board of Trustees of the Maricopa County Bar Basis (chairman in 2005) and town of Scottsdale’s Judicial Appointments Advisory Board.

Contact: radixlaw.com

Amy Abdo

Director | Fennemore Craig

Apply areas: Enterprise litigation, healthcare, employment and labor, skilled legal responsibility

Thomas H. Allen

Member | Allen Barnes & Jones

Apply areas: Chapter, chapter trustee rights, enterprise and shopper debtor chapter, company reorganization, collectors’ rights in chapter, mediation and arbitration, industrial litigation

Hilary L. Barnes

Member | Allen Barnes & Jones

Apply areas: Company and shopper chapter

Kira N. Barrett

Companion | Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Apply areas: Industrial litigation, development, insurance coverage, product and basic legal responsibility, employment legislation

James J. Belanger

Founder | J. Belanger Regulation

Apply areas: Legal and white collar prison protection, lawyer ethics, self-discipline and malpractice, response to authorities investigation

Timothy J. Berg

Director | Fennemore Craig

Apply areas: Civil appeals, state constitutional and public legislation, public information legislation and public utilities regulation

Steven N. Berger

Shareholder | Engelman Berger

Apply areas: Chapter and reorganization, creditor’s rights, mortgage exercises, enterprise restructurings, enterprise and actual property disputes, mediation

Maureen Beyers

Companion | Beyers Farrell

Apply areas: Advanced industrial litigation and arbitration

Laura A. Bianchi

Companion | Bianchi & Brandt

Apply areas: Hashish legislation, enterprise, compliance, and operations

Steve Biddle

Shareholder | Littler

Apply areas: Discrimination and harassment, office security and well being, labor-management relations, wage and hour issues

William D. Bishop

Founder | Bishop Regulation Workplace

Apply areas: Household legislation

Marc D. Blonstein

Member | Berens Blonstein

Apply areas: Actual property transactions, actual property financing, grasp deliberate communities, subdivision issues, and leasing

Nicholas Boca

Managing household legislation lawyer| Cantor Law Group

Apply areas: Household legislation

A Phoenix native, Boca started his profession as an assistant Legal professional Common with the Arizona Legal professional Common’s Workplace, representing the Division of Baby Security. On this place, he appeared in a number of hundred court docket hearings, mediations, and trials. After that, Boca began with Cantor Regulation Group, the place he now could be the managing household legislation lawyer. With Cantor Regulation Group, Boca’s trial expertise continues to construct, dealing with extraordinarily contentious custody issues, together with high-net price, advanced, and high-profile instances. Boca is the co-chair of the MCBA household legislation part and chair of the Juvenile Regulation Part for the State Bar of Arizona.

Contact: [email protected]

Brian R. Booker

Companion | Gordon & Rees

Apply areas:Industrial litigation, product and basic legal responsibility, skilled legal responsibility protection, securities litigation

Annette T. Burns

Founder | Annette T. Burns Regulation Places of work

Apply areas: Household legislation

Dwayne Burns

Legal professional | Davis Miles McGuire Gardner

Apply areas: Private damage, product legal responsibility, wrongful demise

Background: Burns is acknowledged as a extremely efficient advocate in private damage legislation. He represents purchasers in bringing excessive profile catastrophic damage, wrongful demise, merchandise legal responsibility, and medical malpractice instances. An lawyer with Davis Miles McGuire Gardner, he was lately named to the Nationwide Prime 100 Black Attorneys; to The Nationwide Prime 40 below 40 Black Attorneys; and as a Rising Star Tremendous Lawyer, by Thompson Reuters. Burns is a member of the Maricopa County Bar Affiliation Board of Administrators and Range & Inclusion Committees. As well as, he serves his group by teaching the Arizona State College Spirit Squad.

Contact: [email protected]

David Michael Cantor

Founding accomplice | DM Cantor

Apply areas: Legal protection, murder, white collar, and intercourse crimes.

Background: Cantor is a Board-Licensed Legal Regulation Specialist, and has performed greater than 200 jury trials in his 30-plus yr profession. These have ranged from misdemeanor DUI, to multi-million-dollar federal white collar and double-capital homicide protection jury trials. He has additionally dealt with tons of of pre-indictment intercourse crime allegations, in addition to dozens of Skilled Board and Title 9 defenses. Cantor has not solely defended common Arizona residents, but in addition many high-profile companies and purchasers whose instances have been featured on nationwide media shops comparable to CNN, the CBS morning present, Hannity and Colmes, Inside Version, Anderson Cooper Stay, Good Morning America, and the Howard Stern Present.

Contact: [email protected]

Sheila Carmody

Companion | Snell & Wilmer

Apply areas: Advanced litigation with an emphasis on protection of insurance coverage corporations and producers at school motion instances, multi-jurisdictional litigation and basic industrial litigation

J. Craig Cartwright

Shareholder | Buchalter

Anne Chapman | Legal professional

Mitchell | Stein | Carey | Chapman

Apply areas: Defends purchasers in prison instances and assisted corporations with inside and governmental investigations

Elizabeth Chatham

Companion | Stinson

Apply areas: Immigration

Shannon L. Clark

Shareholder | Gallagher & Kennedy

Apply areas: Plaintiff’s private damage and wrongful demise

Stasy D. Click on

Founder | Regulation Workplace of Stasy Click on

Apply areas: Household legislation

Scott B. Cohen

Shareholder | Engelman Berger

Apply areas: Represents banks, lenders, landlords, guarantors, committees, and different collectors in chapter, collectors’ rights issues, mortgage exercises, enterprise turnarounds, Chapter 11 reorganizations, receiverships, chapter litigation, and industrial litigation

Mark L. Collins

Member | Gust Rosenfeld

Apply areas: Actual property, litigation, public legislation

Background: Collins has nearly 40 years of expertise in advanced industrial and actual property litigation. Over the previous decade, he has targeted his apply on representing a governmental entity in negotiating and crafting the paperwork crucial for all kinds of economic tasks together with resorts, company headquarters and big upgrades to a regional public facility. For a few years, Collins has been listed within the Actual Property Regulation class of The Greatest Attorneys in America and is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell. Collins was Greatest Attorneys in America’s 2021 Lawyer of the Yr in Tucson for Actual Property Litigation.

Contact: [email protected]

Anthony J. Coury

Shareholder | Gallagher & Kennedy

Apply areas: Litigation, plaintiff’s private damage and wrongful demise

Henry Darwin

Companion | Gallagher & Kennedy

Apply areas: Environmental legislation

John E. DeWulf

Companion | Coppersmith Brockelman

Apply areas: Contracts, enterprise torts, commerce secrets and techniques, actual property, securities, mental property, skilled malpractice, officer and director legal responsibility,
and merchandise

John Alan Doran

Member | Sherman & Howard

Apply areas: Labor and employment, litigation, trials, appeals

Ashley Duncan Adams

Founder and principal | Adams & Associates

Apply areas: White collar,
prison protection, authorities relations

Helen Davis

Chair of the board | The Cavanagh Law Firm

Apply space: Household legislation

Background: Davis is the managing accomplice and chair of The Cavanagh Regulation Agency and is adjunct school on the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Regulation. Davis handles advanced monetary and custody instances and is licensed as a Specialist in household legislation by the Arizona State Bar; a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys; a Fellow of the Worldwide Academy of Household Attorneys; is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell; honored by Greatest Attorneys in America since 2013, Southwest Tremendous Lawyer since 2015, and Arizona’s Best Lawyer’s since 2014; honored as some of the Influential Ladies in Arizona; and an Athena nominee.

Contact: [email protected]

Matthew P. Feeney

Phoenix agency chair | Snell & Wilmer

Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions, securities choices, SEC reporting and compliance, and company governance issues

Jay A. Fradkin

Chair, Medical Malpractice and Healthcare Skilled Legal responsibility | Jennings Strouss

Apply areas: Medical {and professional} malpractice protection, merchandise legal responsibility, private damage protection, and insurance coverage protection

Leah S. Freed

Shareholder | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

Apply areas: Administration-side labor and employment legislation

Susan M. Freeman

Companion | Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie

Apply areas: Enterprise chapter and on appeals of all types

Paul D. Friedman

Shareholder | Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine

Apply areas: Private damage, ethics and malpractice

Jonathan Frutkin

Principal | Radix Law

Apply areas: Company and enterprise legislation, company chapter and industrial litigation

Background: Frutkin has important expertise as an lawyer, a enterprise govt, and enterprise proprietor. Frutkin’s authorized apply focuses on offering basic counsel, together with authorized recommendation on capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, litigation technique and mental property. His work contains dealing with each home and worldwide transactions on behalf of his enterprise purchasers, guaranteeing that these issues adjust to all related federal, state and worldwide legal guidelines. Frutkin brings his expertise and experience, together with real-life expertise within the enterprise world, to the apply areas of company and enterprise legislation, company chapter and industrial litigation.

Contact: radixlaw.com

Garrick L. Gallagher

Proprietor and director | Sanders & Parks

Apply areas: Private damage, mass torts, insurance coverage litigation and protection

Lauren L. Garner

Companion | Jaburg Wilk

Apply areas: Probate and belief litigation and mediation

J. Phillip Glasscock

Supervisor | Guidant Regulation Agency

Apply areas: Enterprise transactions, litigation and property planning

Benjamin Gottlieb

Founding accomplice | MacQueen & Gottlieb

Apply areas: Actual property, enterprise, industrial instances

Phillip P. Guttilla

Workplace managing accomplice | Polsinelli

Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions

Background: Guttilla is a deal lawyer. Whether or not it’s a enterprise sale or buy transaction with a brief timeline or a must-close financing, he brings sensible options and inventive considering to get to closing. As a Licensed Public Accountant and Chartered Monetary Analyst, Guttilla takes a multidisciplinary strategy to serving his purchasers. He delivers what he expects from his staff – thought management and inventive options with superior responsiveness. Guttilla values his purchasers and builds deep relationships; a lot of his shopper relationships return many years. He’s a trusted adviser who strives to assist his purchasers reduce taxes, maximize their enterprise enterprise worth and maintain the bigger image in focus.

Contact: [email protected]

Jennifer Hadley Catero

Companion | Snell & Wilmer

Apply areas: Advanced industrial litigation with an emphasis on company governance litigation, banking, shopper monetary providers and securities litigation and privateness and information safety points

Robbie Hendricks

Managing accomplice | State 48 Regulation Agency

Apply areas: Advanced divorce litigation and excessive battle custody instances

Tami Keller

Shareholder | Polsinelli

Apply areas: Works with lenders and debtors in reference to industrial mortgage transactions and construction-based acquisitions, together with each asset-based and actual property lending

Larry Lazarus

Companion | Lazarus & Silvyn

Apply areas: Lazarus oversees a wide range of shopper tasks together with high-rise workplace buildings, deliberate residential developments, resorts, luxurious condominiums, city in-fill redevelopment, and Native American group properties growth.

Background: Lazarus has earned the status as one in every of Arizona’s most proficient land use attorneys as a result of his promotion of sound land use ideas, good public coverage and for the respect he exhibits to individuals from all walks of life. As a former chairman of the City Kind Instructions for the Metropolis of Phoenix, he considerably influenced the nationally acknowledged Common Plan for the Metropolis referred to as the Village Idea Plan.

Contact: [email protected]

Amy L. Lieberman

Founder | Perception Employment Mediation and Perception Mediation Group

Apply areas: Arbitration and mediation

Leonardo Bathroom

Phoenix workplace managing accomplice | Quarles & Brady

Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions, industrial financing, worldwide transactions, securities, and basic company legislation

Patrick R. MacQueen

Founding accomplice | MacQueen & Gottlieb

Apply areas: Actual property transactional legislation and actual property litigation

William J. Maledon

Companion | Osborn Maledon

Apply areas: Different dispute decision and mediation, antitrust and commerce regulation counseling and litigation, appellate, industrial litigation, sports activities legislation

Background: Maledon is acknowledged as one of many main industrial litigation and trial attorneys in Arizona and within the nation. He has in depth expertise in each federal and state courts in all kinds of instances in Arizona and all through the nation, together with antitrust and commerce regulation, product legal responsibility, insurance coverage protection and insurance coverage dangerous religion, class actions, securities, sports activities, and varied different advanced industrial instances. He additionally has in depth expertise in dealing with appellate issues in each federal and state courts and he additionally has acted as mediator in quite a few important instances.

Contact: [email protected]

Nicole Maroulakos Goodwin

Managing shareholder | Greenberg Traurig

Apply areas: Company governance disputes, monetary providers litigation, actual property litigation, post-acquisition disputes, well being care litigation, and franchise litigation

Anne E. McClellan

Common counsel | Jennings Strouss

Apply areas: Pofessional legal responsibility, authorized ethics, and litigation within the areas of medical malpractice protection, healthcare, private damage protection, and enterprise disputes

Paul J. McGoldrick

Legal professional and proprietor | Shorall McGoldrick Brinkmann

Apply areas: Private damage instances and has expertise as lead counsel in advanced enterprise disputes

Michael McGrath

Companion and the board chair | Mesch Clark Rothschild

Apply areas: Debtor and creditor rights in addition to industrial and actual property litigation and transactions

Pernell McGuire

Managing accomplice | Davis Miles McGuire Gardner

Apply areas: Chapter, banking and lending

Background: McGuire has served because the managing accomplice of Davis Miles McGuire Gardner for the previous seven years. Underneath his management, the agency has doubled its revenues and earned a No. 3 rating amongst all massive companies within the state, in keeping with Rating Arizona in 2021. McGuire and his accomplice, Douglas Gardner, lately led an possession transition of the agency, naming an extra 9 new fairness companions whereas retaining the agency’s conventional title. He’s an authorized specialist in chapter by the Arizona State Bar and is known as among the many 2022 Greatest Attorneys in America by U.S. Information and World Report.

Contact: [email protected]

John A. Micheaels

Companion | Beale Micheaels Slack & Shughart

Apply areas: Medical malpractice and catastrophic damage and wrongful demise instances

Alexandra Mijares Nash

Companion | Mijares Nash

Apply areas: Represents firms and people in all kinds of prison and civil issues

Kiersten A. Murphy

Legal professional | Henze Prepare dinner Murphy

Apply areas: Public procurement, industrial litigation, appeals

Christina M. Noyes

Companion | Gust Rosenfeld

Apply areas: Franchise, company, mental property

Background: Noyes has 25 years’ expertise in franchise, company, and mental property legislation. Her apply contains making ready and reviewing franchise disclosure paperwork and acquiring franchise registrations on a nationwide foundation, in addition to dealing with federal and state trademark registrations and renewals. She represents franchisees and franchisors, and he or she has been listed within the Franchise Regulation class of The Greatest Attorneys in America since 2009. She was named by Greatest Attorneys because the 2015 Franchise Regulation Lawyer of the Yr for Arizona. Noyes’ apply additionally contains serving to enterprise and nonprofit purchasers with formation, contracts with distributors and prospects, mergers and asset acquisitions.

Contact: [email protected]

Randy Nussbaum

Legal professional | Sacks Tierney

Apply areas: Chapter, debtor and creditor rights, trustee illustration, industrial litigation, actual property legislation, development litigation

Luis Ochoa

Companion | Quarles & Brady

Apply areas: Indian legislation and coverage, tribal housing, gaming, enterprise entity formation, actual property growth, leasing of non-tribal payment land, tribal belief and allotted land

Sharon J. Oscar

Founder | Regulation Workplace of Sharon J. Oscar

Apply areas: Purchasing middle legislation, industrial actual property and industrial leasing instances

Michael R. Palumbo

Particular counsel | Jennings Strouss

Apply areas: Civil litigation

Scott I. Palumbo

Founding accomplice | Palumbo Wolfe & Palumbo

Apply areas: Private damage and wrongful demise

Background: Palumbo is a trial lawyer devoted to defending those that have been victimized by critical private damage accidents and those that have misplaced family members to wrongful demise. He is the quick previous president of the Arizona Affiliation for Justice/Arizona Trial Attorneys Affiliation and an adjunct professor of legislation at Arizona State College’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Regulation. Palumbo is included in The Greatest Attorneys in America within the areas of Plaintiffs Private Harm Litigation and Medical Malpractice Regulation and was named the 2020 “Lawyer of the Yr” for Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Regulation.

Contact: palumbowolfe.com

Randy Papetti

Companion | Papetti Samuels Weiss

Apply areas: He has litigated and tried main industrial, mental property, and even prison instances

Kristy L. Peters

Shareholder | Littler Mendelson

Apply areas: Labor and employment issues arising below federal and state legal guidelines

Steven Plitt

Senior member | The Cavanagh Law Firm

Apply space: Insurance coverage protection

Background: With greater than 39 years of expertise, Plitt is an insurance coverage protection lawyer dealing with advanced, high-exposure disputes and dangerous religion instances. He was inducted as a Fellow into the American School of Protection Counsel and the American Regulation Institute. He has been named as an “Insurance coverage Lawyer of the Yr” a number of occasions by Greatest Attorneys. Plitt has been a Prime 50 attorneys in Arizona for Southwest Tremendous Attorneys for the previous 15 years. He’s Band 1 ranked by Chambers and Companions USA and teaches insurance coverage legislation at The College of Arizona.

Contact: [email protected]

Jason Pritchett

Companion | Radix Law

Apply areas: Industrial enterprise transactions, mergers and acquisitions

Background: Pritchett is an skilled Arizona enterprise lawyer working towards primarily within the areas of economic enterprise transactions, mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting, reviewing and negotiation, in addition to sports activities consulting and advisement. Beforehand, Pritchett practiced within the litigation and company teams at Fennemore Craig. Pritchett’s numerous apply expertise in each the litigation and company worlds grants him a whole perspective of enterprise transactions and entity growth from inception to completion. This valued perception allows Pritchett to effectively and successfully advance his purchasers’ pursuits, whether or not fellow attorneys, enterprise executives or start-up entrepreneurs.

Contact: [email protected]

Daniel P. Quigley

Companion and president | Cohen Dowd Quigley

Apply areas: Advanced enterprise litigation and contested administrative proceedings

Stephanie Quincy

Shareholder | Greenberg Traurig

Apply areas: Labor and employment, commerce secrets and techniques and unfair competitors, monetary establishments litigation, commerce secrets and techniques

Cathy L. Reece

Director | Fennemore

Apply areas: Monetary restructuring, chapter and collectors’ rights

Joel B. Robbins

Companion | Robbins & Curtin

Apply areas: Severe private damage, wrongful demise, and civil rights instances

Barbara U. Rodriguez-Pashkowski

Companion | Gust Rosenfeld

Apply areas: Environmental legislation, litigation

Background: Chair of the agency’s Actual Property and Industrial Sections, Rodriguez-Pashkowski concentrates her apply on environmental legislation, together with environmental compliance, WQARF, CERCLA, UST issues, due diligence, air high quality, water high quality, and RCRA. She brings to her purchasers years of expertise, together with state and federal Superfund litigation, UST compliance and appeals, air high quality and water high quality allowing and regulatory compliance, asbestos compliance, RCRA regulatory compliance, environmental rule writing, and laws. Rodriguez-Pashkowski works with varied federal, state, and native governmental entities and personal corporations on a broad vary of environmental points. She was chosen as MCBA Member of the Yr, 2021, and was named in The Greatest Attorneys in America and Az Enterprise Leaders in 2021.

Contact: [email protected]

Cynthia A. Ricketts

Founding accomplice

Sacks Ricketts & Case

Apply areas: Advanced contract and industrial litigation, shopper class motion protection

Kristen Rosati

Companion | Coppersmith Brockelman

Apply areas: Knowledge breaches, well being info alternate, information sharing for analysis and medical integration initiatives, medical analysis compliance, and biobanking and genomic privateness

David B. Rosenbaum

Companion | Osborn Maledon

Apply areas: Advanced industrial litigation in state and federal courts

Background: Rosenbaum’s apply focuses on advanced industrial litigation in state and federal courts. He has represented public corporations and their officers and administrators in quite a few securities fraud class actions; represented Fortune 50 corporations in a variety of advanced industrial litigation issues, together with issues involving mental property disputes; represented a serious telecommunications firm in an array of economic litigation issues; represented corporations in gross sales and use tax disputes; and represented nationwide and native corporations in employment controversies, together with class-action discrimination lawsuits. As previous president of the Federal Bar Affiliation and Lawyer Consultant to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Convention, Rosenbaum has developed data and expertise within the finer factors of prosecuting advanced litigation in federal courts.

Contact: [email protected]

Thomas J. Salerno

Companion | Stinson

Apply areas: Chapter and collectors’ rights, aviation and aerospace

Ted A. Schmidt

Managing accomplice | Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian

Apply areas: Private damage

Brian J. Schulman

Legal professional | Weiss Brown

Apply areas: Advanced enterprise disputes, together with contract issues, fraud, securities legislation, shareholder disputes, actual property, monetary providers, and officer/director legal responsibility

Background: As each a litigator and counselor, Schulman is within the problem-solving enterprise – whether or not which means appearing as a zealous advocate in court docket or providing strategic recommendation on an inside enterprise concern. Schulman’s litigation apply focuses on enterprise and regulatory disputes, together with contract issues, fraud, securities legislation, shareholder disputes, enterprise divorces, actual property, tribal legislation, monetary providers, and officer/director legal responsibility. Schulman additionally acts as a personal mediator and decide professional tempore.

Contact: [email protected]

Dev Sethi

Companion | Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian

Apply areas: Private damage and wrongful demise

David S. Shughart

Companion | Beale Micheaels Slack & Shughart

Apply areas: Private damage and insurance coverage litigation

Bradley D. Shwer

Co-founding accomplice | Thorpe Shwer

Apply areas: Enterprise and industrial litigation, private damage torts, and merchandise legal responsibility

Background: Shwer is the founding accomplice of Thorpe Shwer, a boutique civil litigation legislation agency representing Fortune 500 corporations, native companies, particular person entrepreneurs, and authorities entities in high-stakes instances throughout america. His apply areas embrace enterprise and industrial litigation, private damage protection, franchise litigation, merchandise legal responsibility, and employment litigation. He has litigated instances throughout the nation in federal and state courts. He has been acknowledged as a high 50 lawyer in Arizona by Southwest Tremendous Lawyer and as a Solar Satan 100 member.

Contact: [email protected]

Leon B. Silver

Managing accomplice | Gordon & Rees

Apply areas: Advanced industrial and actual property disputes

Keri Silvyn

Companion | Lazarus & Silvyn

Apply areas: The shopper tasks Silvyn oversees embrace medical campuses, retail, workplace, residential and mixed-use developments, industrial complexes, persevering with care retirement communities, native cities and cities, and negotiations of financial growth agreements.

Background: Silvyn makes a speciality of zoning and land use legislation in Southern Arizona, with an emphasis on sustainable growth, and acceptable and accountable progress. She advises non-public builders and native governments on the applying of zoning codes, compliance with state statutes and present land use case legislation, and efficient public/non-public partnerships. Silvyn’s profession spans over 20 years and her management and experience have been acknowledged for excellence regionally, statewide and nationally.

Contact: [email protected]

Ok. Thomas Slack

Companion | Beale Micheaels Slack & Shughart

Apply areas: Catastrophic damage and wrongful demise

Gary Smith

Supervisor | Guidant Law Firm

Apply areas: Hashish, psychedelics, development, actual property and administrative legislation

Background: A seasoned litigator, mediator and arbitrator, Smith focuses his apply on hashish, psychedelics, development, actual property and administrative legislation. He’s trusted to deal with a variety of advanced, multi-million-dollar disputes. A prolific author, speaker and thought chief, Smith has authored quite a few authorized manuals, together with “The Orange E-book: The Regulation of Arizona Contractors,” and “Psychedelica Lex,” the latter of which solidified him among the many nation’s foremost authorities on psychedelics legislation. AV Preeminent rated from Martindale-Hubbell, Smith based the Arizona Hashish Bar Affiliation and serves on the board of the Arizona Hashish Chamber of Commerce.

Contact: [email protected]

Wendi A. Sorensen

Shareholder | Burch & Cracchiolo

Apply areas: Private damage and wrongful demise

Background: Sorensen is a Licensed Specialist in Private Harm/Wrongful Loss of life Litigation. As well as, she has a sturdy mediation apply defending aggravated legal responsibility and damages issues, together with trucking accident instances, vehicular merchandise legal responsibility issues, development website damage and demise issues, and premises legal responsibility instances. She is the present Arizona State Bar Board of Authorized Specialization Chair. Sorensen is a Greatest Lawyer in America, and been named one of many “Prime 25 Ladies Attorneys” in Arizona by Southwest Tremendous Attorneys in 2013 and 2015-2021. She was a Arizona Enterprise Leaders Prime Lawyer in 2019-2021 and one of many “Most Influential Ladies in Enterprise” in 2015.

Contact: [email protected]

Carolyn Tatkin

Companion | Radix Law

Apply areas: Client and enterprise chapter, representing each collectors and debtors

Background: With greater than 35 years of authorized expertise, Tatkin is adept at dealing with all facets of her purchasers’ chapter issues. She additionally focuses on non-bankruptcy resolutions for purchasers with advanced monetary challenges. She enjoys counseling her purchasers, prioritizes open communication, and significantly values the belief that they place in her. Over time, she has additionally practiced within the fields of economic litigation, insurance coverage dangerous religion litigation, development defect litigation in addition to basic enterprise and industrial legislation.

Contact: radixlaw.com

Pilar Thomas

Companion | Quarles & Brady

Apply areas: Tribal renewable power mission growth and finance, tribal financial growth, federal Indian Regulation

William L. Thorpe

Founding accomplice | Thorpe Shwer

Apply areas: Advanced industrial and tort issues

Background: Extensively thought of one in every of Arizona’s preeminent litigators and trial attorneys, Thorpe is the founding accomplice of Thorp Shwer, a boutique civil litigation legislation agency representing Fortune 500 corporations, native companies, particular person entrepreneurs, and governmental businesses in high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts throughout america. His apply areas together with enterprise and industrial disputes, private damage protection, railroad and trucking business litigation, merchandise legal responsibility, employment litigation, and appellate work. He has tried instances to juries in federal and state courts all through the Southwest.

Contact: [email protected]

Geoff Trachtenberg

Managing accomplice | Levenbaum Trachtenberg

Apply areas: Private damage, litigation and appeals

Debora Verdier

Senior member | The Cavanagh Law Firm

Apply space: Labor and employment

Background: Verdier defends employers, together with municipalities, in all sorts of labor and employment disputes pending earlier than the Equal Employment Alternative Fee, state and federal courts and personal arbitrators. She has been appointed to the Worldwide Affiliation of Protection Counsel and served as a decide professional tem within the Maricopa County Superior Court docket for eight years. Since 2012, she has served as an adjunct professor at Arizona State College, the place she teaches a sensible talent course referred to as “The Litigation Expertise.” She has been acknowledged as one in every of Southwest Supers Attorneys’ “Prime 25 Arizona Ladies Attorneys” for seven years in a row.

Contact: [email protected]

Paul M. Weiser

Shareholder | Buchalter

Apply areas: Industrial actual property

Scott Ok. Weiss

Legal professional | Weiss Brown

Apply areas: Mergers and acquisitions, start-up rising companies, financing

Background: Weiss is a company and securities lawyer and focuses his apply within the areas of securities, non-public placements, enterprise capital, and mergers and acquisitions. Weiss can also be an authorized public accountant. Previous to forming his personal legislation agency, Weiss was a shareholder at a world legislation agency and served within the audit apply of Arthur Andersen. Weiss has been listed in Chambers & Companions USA Information, an annual itemizing of the main enterprise attorneys and legislation companies on the planet, within the 2008-2010 and 2014-2021 editions.

Contact: [email protected]

Christine Whalin

Companion and managing lawyer | DM Cantor

Apply areas: Legal protection, white collar protection, DUI-related protection.

Background: Whalin is presently one in every of solely 12 feminine prison protection attorneys within the state of Arizona who’re Board Licensed Specialists in Legal Regulation per the State Bar of Arizona, Board of Authorized Specialization. She can also be an “AV” rated lawyer below Martindale-Hubbell’s peer overview course of. Whalin is a trial lawyer working towards for greater than 15 years, strictly within the space of prison protection. She focuses on representing people in all sorts of prison instances starting from state and federal felony and misdemeanor issues, together with faculty self-discipline and Title IX litigation. She is especially expert dealing with main felony instances involving sexual misconduct, sexual assault, and different critical “life-in-prison” allegations. Some consultant instances:

• Obtained acquittals after quite a few Jury Trials on felony and misdemeanor allegations, together with sexual conduct with a minor, aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, endangerment, little one molestation, DUI, assault, public sexual indecency, and housebreaking.

• Important expertise in representing these accused of sexual offenses comparable to intercourse conduct with a minor, little one molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual assault, and different sexual offenses.

• Efficiently represented quite a few individuals in vehicular crime allegations comparable to hit and run, aggravated DUI, manslaughter, aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, DUI, and different driving offenses.

• She has additionally efficiently represented quite a few people accused of drug possession, sale, and transportation. Efficiently represented people in each pre-arrest and post-arrest investigations for fraudulent schemes, theft, cash laundering, conspiracy, embezzlement,
and playing violations.

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