Each year, Az Business magazine’s editorial team — in collaboration with industry experts — choose the Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona from a pool of more than 1,000 of the most talented and successful attorneys from throughout the state.
Selections are based on each lawyer’s professional success, impact on his or her law firm, impact on the communities she/he serves and impact on the legal profession.
Do you know an attorney who should be considered for the 2018 list? Email Editor in Chief Michael Gossie at michael.gossie@azbigmedia.com.
2017’s Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona:
Andrew Abraham
Shareholder • Burch & Cracchiolo • bcattorneys.com
Practice areas: Real estate, business and corporate law, commercial litigation
Shawn K. Aiken
Shareholder • Aiken Schenk Hawkins & Ricciardi • ashrlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial litigation, mediation, arbitration
Hilary L. Barnes
Member • Allen Maguire & Barnes • ambazlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, bankruptcy litigation
Timothy W. Barton
Of counsel • Jennings Strouss • jsslaw.com
Practice areas: Title insurance, real estate litigation, commercial litigation
Steven N. Berger
Shareholder • Engelman Berger • eblawyers.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy and reorganization, creditors’ rights, loan workouts, business restructuring, business and real estate disputes, business and real estate transactions, mediation
Maureen Beyers
Partner • Osborn Maledon • omlaw.com
Practice areas: Complex commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation
Brian Blaney
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments
Marc D. Blonstein
Member • Berens Blonstein • berensblonstein.com
Practice areas: Real estate development and finance, business organizations
Mark S. Bosco
Shareholder • Tiffany & Bosco • tblaw.com
Practice areas: Banking, financial services/default servicing, foreclosure/trustee sales, real estate, bankruptcy, condemnation. forcible entry and detainer/eviction
Susan Boswell
Partner • Quarles & Brady • quarles.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy, restructuring, creditors’ rights
Kent Brockelman
Managing partner • Coppersmith Brockelman • cblawyers.com
Practice areas: Labor and employment counseling, labor and employment litigation, commercial litigation
James E. Brophy, III
Managing shareholder • Ryley Carlock & Applewhite • rcalaw.com
Practice areas: Business, employee benefits, banking and finance, corporate and securities, taxation, transportation, cyber security and data privacy
Tim Brown
Shareholder • Gallagher & Kennedy • gknet.com
Practice areas: Tax law, sports law, business law and transactions
Robert J. Bruno
Shareholder and director • Sanders & Parks. • sandersparks.com
Practice areas: Complex civil litigation, construction litigation, professional liability defense, products liability
Edwin C. Bull
Shareholder • Burch & Cracchiolo • bcattorneys.com
Practice areas: Business and corporate law, real estate
Robin E. Burgess
Shareholder, officer and director • Sanders & Parks • sandersparks.com
Practice areas: Healthcare, medical malpractice, product liability, professional liability, municipal liability
Rebecca Lynne Burnham
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Real estate acquisition and development, sports facilities and entertainment venues, land development
Flynn Carey
Attorney • Mitchell Stein Carey • mitchellsteincarey.com
Practice areas: Criminal defense, administrative law, school discipline, Title IX litigation
Anne Chapman
Attorney • Mitchell Stein Carey • mitchellsteincarey.com
Practice areas: Criminal defense, internal and governmental investigations
Paul Charlton
Partner • Steptoe & Johnson • steptoe.com
Practice areas: Complex litigation, internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense
George C. Chen
Partner • Bryan Cave • bryancave.com
Practice areas: Intellectual property, litigation, licensing, counseling, patent, trademark, copyright, cybersquatting
Joseph T. Clees
Shareholder • Ogletree Deakins • ogletreedeakins.com
Practice areas: Labor relations, employment law, litigation
Jennifer Cranston
Shareholder • Gallagher & Kennedy • gknet.com
Practice areas: Condemnation and valuation, insurance, administrative law, real estate, public utilities, litigation
Vaughn A. Crawford
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Product liability litigation
Thomas H. Curzon
Partner • Osborn Maledon • omlaw.com
Practice areas: Outside general counsel, venture capital, M&A, corporate and securities
Jaime Daddona
Partner • Squire Patton Boggs • squirepattonboggs.com
Practice areas: Corporate, domestic and international M&A, private equity investment, securities offerings and corporate governance
Barbara J. Dawson
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Business litigation and internal investigations
Kimberly A. Demarchi
Partner • Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie • lrrc.com
Practice areas: Civil appeals, litigation of complex matters
William M. Demlong
Senior member • The Cavanagh Law Firm • cavanaghlaw.com
Practice areas: Litigation, insurance coverage, bad faith litigation, products liability, personal injury
Pat Derdenger
Partner • Steptoe & Johnson • steptoe.com
Practice areas: Federal, state and local tax
John E. DeWulf
Partner • Coppersmith Brockelman PLC • cblawyers.com
Practice areas: Commercial litigation
Karen Dickinson
Shareholder • Polsinelli • polsinelli.com
Practice areas: Technology, data privacy, intellectual property, international law
John Alan Doran
Member • Sherman & Howard • shermanhoward.com
Practice areas: Labor and employment, litigation, trials, appeals
Daniel G. Dowd
Partner and president • Cohen Dowd Quigley • cdqlaw.com
Practice areas: Business litigation
William W. Drury, Jr.
Senior shareholder • Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros • rcdmlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial and business litigation, medical malpractice and healthcare litigation, professional liability litigation
Paul F. Eckstein
Partner • Perkins Coie • perkinscoie.com
Practice areas: Litigation, appellate, antitrust and unfair competition litigation, political law
Booker T. Evans
Partner • Ballard Spahr • ballardspahr.com
Practice areas: Litigation, white collar defense/internal investigations, commercial litigation, political and election law
James A. Fassold
Shareholder • Tiffany & Bosco • tblaw.com
Practice areas: Probate and trust litigation, elder law, guardianship and conservatorships, estate administration
Patrick X. Fowler
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Product liability litigation
Leah S. Freed
Office managing shareholder • Ogletree, Deakins • ogletreedeakins.com
Practice areas: Employment law, litigation, healthcare, defense contracting industry
Susan M. Freeman
Partner • Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie • lrrlaw.com
Practice areas: Appeals, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, distressed real estate acquisition and management
Jonathan Frutkin
Principal • Radix Law • radixlaw.com
Practice areas: Business law, commercial litigation
Martin R. Galbut
Managing partner • Galbut & Galbut • galbutlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial litigation, complex litigation, antitrust litigation, real rstate litigation, employment litigation
Garrick L. Gallagher
Owner and director • Sanders & Parks • sandersandparks.com
Practice areas: Complex civil litigation, insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, insurance coverage litigation
Yale F. Goldberg
Co-founding partner • Frazer Ryan Goldberg & Arnold • frgalaw.com
Practice areas: Tax controversy, employment taxes, tax litigation
Stacey F. Gottlieb
Of counsel • Cohen Dowd Quigley • cdqlaw.com
Practice areas: Complex commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense
Andrew F. Halaby
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Intellectual property and technology litigation
Diane M. Haller
Partner • Quarles & Brady • quarles.com
Practice areas: Real estate, highly complex transactions, land development deals, portfolio transactions
Michael J. Holden
Managing member • Holden Willits • holdenwillits.com
Practice areas: Construction law, construction litigation and commercial litigation
Timothy R. Hyland
Senior member • The Cavanagh Law Firm • cavanaghlaw.com
Practice areas: Appellate, insurance coverage, bad faith litigation
Donald G. Isaacson
Member • Isaacson & Walsh • iwlawfirm.com
Practice areas: Legislative representation and administrative law matter
Stephen E. Jackson
President • Warner Angle Hallam Jackson & Formanek • warnerangle.com
Practice areas: Construction law, civil litigation, mediation, arbitration, real estate and business transactions
Carolyn J. Johnsen
Member • Dickinson Wright • dickinson-wright.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy restructuring insolvency, bankruptcy litigation, commercial transactions, corporate, mergers and acquisitions
Michael Kennedy
Co-founding partner, shareholder • Gallagher & Kennedy • gknet.com
Practice areas: Civil litigation, sports law
Jay Kramer
Director • Fennemore Craig • fclaw.com
Practice areas: Real estate transactions and finance, which includes acquisition, infrastructure financing, entitlements, development and sale, as well as loan workouts, restructuring and enforcement
Dana M. Levy
Member • Dickinson Wright • dickinson-wright.com
Practice areas: Family law, divorce, legal separation, paternity
Amy L. Lieberman
Executive director • Insight Employment Mediation and Insight Mediation Group • insightemployment.com
Practice areas: Alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration)
John F. Lomax, Jr.
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Labor and employment
Patricio P. Lopez III
Senior partner • Rusing Lopez & Lizardi • rllaz.com
Practice areas: Contracts, business formation and corporate governance, acquisition and disposition, commercial property and real estate development, finance, real estate and construction litigation
Daniel M. Mahoney
Partner • Snell & Wilmer • swlaw.com
Practice areas: Corporate and securities
Jay M. Mann
Attorney • Jennings, Strouss & Salmon • jsslaw.com
Practice areas: Construction law, surety law, commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation
Andrea L. Marconi
Partner • Thorpe Shwer • thorpeshwer.com
Practice areas: Commercial litigation, business and personal injury tort defense, franchise litigation
Margaret T. McCarthy
Managing partner • Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros • rcdmlaw.com
Practice areas: Litigation, insurance, healthcare and medical malpractice
Mark A. McGinnis
Member • Salmon, Lewis & Weldon • slwplc.com
Practice areas: Water law, natural resources law, energy and public utility law, environmental litigation
Michael McGrath
Shareholder • Mesch Clark Rothschild • mcrazlaw.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy law, debtor and creditor rights, commercial and real estate litigation and transactions
Patrick J. McGroder, III
Shareholder • Gallagher & Kennedy • gknet.com
Practice areas: Plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death, professional liability
Phoebe Moffatt
Attorney • Sacks Tierney • sackstierney.com
Practice areas: Estate planning, probate and trust administration, guardianship and conservatorship, beneficiary/heir representation, estate and gift tax returns
Mark Ogden
Shareholder • Littler Mendelson • littler.com
Practice areas: Wage and hour, class actions, discrimination and harassment, litigation and trials, performance management and termination
Pamela Overton Risoleo
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial litigation, class action defense, cyber and data breach litigation
Rodolfo Parga, Jr.
Shareholder • Ryley Carlock & Applewhite • rcalaw.com
Practice areas: Complex commercial litigation and employment litigation
Elizabeth A. Parsons
Partner • Farhang & Medcoff • fmazlaw.com
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, private placements, mergers & acquisitions, equity compensation, restructuring
Martha C. Patrick
Shareholder • Burch & Cracchiolo P.A. • bcattorneys.com
Practice areas: Taxation, state and local tax controversy, litigation
Steven Plitt
Senior member • The Cavanagh Law Firm • cavanaghlaw.com
Practice areas: Professional liability, litigation, insurance defense, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith
Stephanie Quincy
Partner • Quarles & Brady • quarles.com
Practice areas: Labor and employment, trade secrets and unfair competition, financial institutions litigation, trade secrets
Cathy L. Reece
Director • Fennemore Craig • fclaw.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and restructuring; aviation, aerospace and autonomous systems; business litigation, real estate finance and lending
Cynthia A. Ricketts
Co-founding partner • Sacks Ricketts & Case • srclaw.com
Practice areas: Complex consumer and employment class action defense, complex commercial litigation matters, arbitration
Kristen B. Rosati
Partner • Coppersmith Brockelman • cblawyers.com
Practice areas: Health information privacy and security, including HIPAA compliance; health information exchange and data sharing for research and clinical integration initiatives; biobanking and genomic privacy
David B. Rosenbaum
Partner • Osborn Maledon • omlaw.com
Practice areas: Complex commercial litigation, securities litigation and intellectual property litigation
Lawrence J. Rosenfeld
Senior counsel • Squire Patton Boggs • squirepattonboggs.com
Practice areas: Employment law, litigation, health law and administrative law
Robert A. Royal
Shareholder • Tiffany & Bosco • tblaw.com
Practice areas: Business divorce, business solutions, civil and commercial litigation, director and officer liability, insurance law, intra-company disputes, product liability
Winn L. Sammons
Shareholder and director • Sanders & Parks • sandersparks.com
Practice areas: Alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration)
Brian J. Schulman
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Litigation, securities litigation and regulation, financial services litigation, financial regulatory and compliance, mediation
Wendi A. Sorensen
Shareholder • Burch & Cracchiolo • bcattorneys.com
Practice areas: Litigation, insurance, catastrophic injury
Nicole Stanton
Phoenix office managing partner • Quarles & Brady • quarles.com
Practice areas: Litigation and dispute resolution, franchise and distribution, professional malpractice, higher education, appellate
Christopher D. Thomas
Partner • Perkins Coie • perkinscoie.com
Practice areas: Environmental litigation and environmental counseling
David C. Tierney
Partner • Sacks Tierney • sackstierney.com
Practice areas: Civil litigation, construction law, arbitration and mediation
Jeffrey H. Verbin
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Real estate, commercial lending and workouts, financial institutions, sports and entertainment
Debora L. Verdier
Partner • Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester • manningllp.com
Practice areas: Employment law, professional liability
E. Jeffrey Walsh
Shareholder • Greenberg Traurig • gtlaw.com
Practice areas: Commercial and business litigation. construction law
Paul M. Weiser
Shareholder • Buchalter Nemer • buchalter.com
Practice areas: Real estate purchases and sales, receiverships
Scott K. Weiss
Attorney • Weiss Brown • weissbrown.com
Practice areas: Corporate, securities, financing, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, start-up and emerging businesses
Nancy L. White
Partner • Steptoe & Johnson • steptoe.com
Practice areas: Corporate, securities and finance, property
Lawrence Wilk
Shareholder • Jaburg & Wilk • jaburgwilk.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy, creditos’ rights, workouts, financial fraud, in-house counsel program, real estate, foreclosure, administrative law
Donald Wilson, Jr.
Shareholder • Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson • bowwlaw.com
Practice areas: Legal Malpractice defense and respondent’s disciplinary defense
Lori Winkelman
Partner • Quarles & Brady • quarles.com
Practice areas: Bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights; jet fuel consortiums; banking and financial institutions; tribal law
Susan M. Wissink
Director • Fennemore Craig • fclaw.com
Practice areas: Business and finance, emerging business and technologies, government procurement
Terrence P. Woods
Shareholder • Broening, Oberg, Woods & Wilson • bowwlaw.com
Practice areas: Insurance, healthcare, professional liability, appellate, alternative dispute resolution, personal injury
Mark G. Worischeck
Managing shareholder • Sanders & Parks • sandersandparks.com
Practice areas: Insurance coverage, aviation, personal injury
Kurt M. Zitzer
Partner • Meagher & Geer • meagher.com
Practice areas: Insurance coverage, commercial litigation, professional liability
