Az Business Magazine’s 2014 top lawyer list was created after the editorial department asked Arizona law firms to nominate their two best attorneys from more than 20 different categories for consideration. Those nominees were vetted and considered by a panel made of the editorial team and industry experts to determine the exclusive 2014 Az Business Magazine Top Lawyers List.
 Steven N. Berger Shareholder Engelman Berger, P.C. Company Website Berger is focused on resolution of complex business disputes through effective representation of clients in bankruptcy or other reorganization proceedings, loan workouts, litigation and business transactions. |
 John R. Clemency Shareholder Gallagher & Kennedy Company Website Clemency is an Arizona State Bar Certified Commercial Bankruptcy Specialist with expertise across diverse industries assisting lenders, borrowers, secured and unsecured creditors, fiduciaries and asset buyers. Keen negotiator with courtroom experience in bankruptcy courts across the United States. |
 John J. Fries Shareholder Ryley Carlock & Applewhite Company Website Fries is a certified bankruptcy specialist recognized by the Arizona State Bar and American Board of Certification and regularly represents fi ancial institutions, businesses, trustees and creditors’ committees in complex bankruptcy cases and workouts. |
 John (Jack) J. Hebert Shareholder Polsinelli Company Website Hebert is a nationally recognized leader in bankruptcy and insolvency law. For over 35 years he has represented trustees and receivers in insolvency proceedings and several large banks on their workout and bankruptcy files. |
 Thomas J. Salerno Partner Squire Sanders Company Website Salerno co-chairs the firm’s international financial restructuring practice. He has extensive experience representing distressed companies, acquirers and creditors in financial restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings, pre- and post-bankruptcy workouts and corporate recapitalizations. |
 Susan Boswell Partner Quarles & Brady LLP Company Website Named among the “Top 50 Attorney in Arizona” by Southwest Super Lawyers, Boswell brings more than 30 years expertise to her national bankruptcy and reorganization practice, representing both creditors and debtors. |
 Susan Freeman Partner Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP Company Website Freeman is a partner who concentrates her practice on business bankruptcy and on appeals of all kinds. With experience serving as individual counsel and as co-counsel, she helps in all aspects of business bankruptcy. |
 Daniel E. Garrison Managing member Andante Law Group Company Website Garrison has almost two decades of corporate restructuring, business bankruptcy and related experience with troubled business in the real estate development, retail, manufacturing, health care, telecommunications, construction, agricultural, mining, airline, and high-tech industries. |
 Randy Nussbaum Founding shareholder Nussbaum Gillis & Dinner, P.C. Company Website Nussbaum’s 33 years of zealous advocacy in sophisticated, complex bankruptcy and insolvency cases has earned him high distinction nationally and locally and numerous peer-review awards. Nussbaum’s passion for the law is matched by his commitment to the Scottsdale community, his home for more than 50 years. |
 Lawrence E. Wilk Shareholder Jaburg Wilk Company Website Wilk has more than 33 years’ experience handling significant bankruptcy cases on behalf of trustees, creditors and debtors. Achievements include adjunct professor at ASU’s College of Law, Southwest Super Lawyer, Arizona’s Top Lawyers, rated AV Preeminent from Martindale-Hubbell and a Master in the Arizona Bankruptcy Inn of Court. |
