Az Business magazine’s 2013 top lawyer list was created after the editorial department asked Arizona law firms to nominate their two best attorneys from 16 different categories for consideration. Those nominees were put on a ballot and were voted on by their peers in the legal community and the readers of Az Business magazine to determine the exclusive 2013 Az Business Magazine Top Lawyers list.
Edward O. Comitz
Comitz | Beethe
480-998-7800
www.disabilitycounsel.net
Comitz heads the healthcare and disability insurance practice, earning a national reputation for prosecuting disability insurance claims on behalf of individuals based on bad faith and unfair business practices.
John R. (Jack) Cunningham
Jennings, Haug & Cunningham, LLP
602-234-7814
www.jhc-law.com
Cunningham’s practice includes both prosecution and defense of personal injury cases, all types of professional malpractice cases, litigation of insurance coverage and bad faith issues, general commercial litigation, as well as general trial and appellate work.
Garrick Gallagher
Sanders & Parks, P.C.
602-532-5720
www.sandersandparks.com
Gallagher’s practice includes insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, insurance coverage litigation, excess and surplus lines, directors and officers liability, personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, professional negligence, construction, and intellectual property litigation.
Richard H. Himelrick
Tiffany & Bosco, P.A.
602-255-6021
www.tblaw.com
Himelrick chairs Tiffany & Bosco’s Civil and Commercial Litigation Department. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Southwest Super Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America and Who’s Who in American Law.
Michael K. Kennedy
Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A.
602-530-8504
www.gknet.com
Kennedy, co-founding partner of Gallagher & Kennedy, practices in general civil litigation and serves as local, regional and national counsel to a variety of business clients.
Christopher A. LaVoy
Tiffany & Bosco, P.A.
602-452-2731
www.tblaw.com
LaVoy concentrates his practice in commercial litigation with significant experience in the following areas: business buy-sell disputes; partnership and shareholder disputes; insurance coverage disputes; commercial landlord-tenant disputes; and business torts.
Thomas Littler
Gordon Silver
602-256-0400
www.gordonsilver.com
The focus of Littler’s practice is representing debtors and creditors, trustees, official committees, and secured creditors in reorganizations throughout a wide range of industries including construction, real estate, and technology.
Steven G. Mesaros
Renaud Cook Drury Mesaros, PA
602-256-3002
www.rcdmlaw.com
Mesaros is the firm practice group chair in both the Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith and Professional Liability groups.
Gregory L. Miles
Davis Miles McGuire Gardner, PLLC
480-344-4048
www.davismiles.com
Miles, who has an “AV Preeminent” rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings system, focuses his practice on business, commercial litigation and real estate.
Mark A. Nadeau
DLA Piper
480-606-5110
www.dlapiper.com
Nadeau is a published author, with articles concerning trade competition, product liability and dispute resolution for transfers of technology.
Leon Silver
Polsinelli
602-650-2066
www.polsinelli.com
Silver is a trial lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience handling complex commercial and real estate disputes. His clients include national and multi-national retailers, restaurants and manufacturers, and real estate investors and developers.
Donald A. Wall
Squire Sanders
602-528-4005
www.squiresanders.com
Wall has nearly 40 years of experience handling a broad range of commercial litigation and other methods of dispute resolution. He is recognized in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
