Best Lawyers in Scottsdale, Arizona

Ms. Acken focuses her practice in labor and employment law. She has defended numerous companies in gender, race and disability discrimination cases in state and federal court. Ms. Acken also has wide-ranging experience representing both public and private entities in EEOC claims, wage payment/overtime, wrongful termination, Davis-Bacon, and state and federal leave issues. She also currently serves as the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Acken was ...

Mr. Balitis counsels private sector clients as well as government agencies, including the Arizona legislature, on a broad range of employment law and labor relations matters. Over his 30 years of practice, he has represented clients in administrative proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Arizona Civil Rights Division, Arizona Industrial Commission, Arizona Department of Occupational Safety and He...

Olivier A. Beabeau leads the firm’s business litigation and intellectual property practice groups. Olivier’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation at the trial and appellate level, alternative dispute resolution through arbitration and mediation, and trademark and copyright protection in the United States and abroad. He has significant experience litigating high-stakes partnership disputes, contract disputes, securities fraud, residential construction fraud, unfair competit...

Douglas F. Behm practices complex civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, government regulatory agency defense, and corporate internal investigations and compliance. He has extensive trial and appellate court experience. Mr. Behm began his career as an assistant district attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York in 1974. From 1977 to 1987 he served as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice in New York City (Eastern District). While with the Justice Department, h...

Stephen Best is member of Buchalter’s Litigation practice group in the Firm’s Scottsdale office. Mr. Best represents a variety of companies in general civil litigation matters, including construction companies, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals in claims involving construction defects. He further represents various individual clients through his trust and estates litigation practice. Mr. Best has achieved successful outcomes for many of his clients, including su...

Max has received the highest ratings for outstanding quality and service from both his clients and his peers. He is listed among the Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Tax Law and Trusts and Estates, is a Super Lawyer® and is an AV® Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 peer review rated attorney in Martindale Hubbell. Max is designated with the High Ethical Standing seal. Before founding Boyer Bohn in 1998, he was a partner in the Phoenix office of the international law firm, Bryan Cave,...

Ryan joined Boyer Bohn after practicing real estate law at the national law firm, Snell & Wilmer, LLP. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Trusts and Estates and is an AV® Preeminent peer review rated attorney in Martindale Hubbell and is designated with the High Ethical Standing seal. He is also past President of East Valley Estate Planning Council and Valley Estate Planners. Ryan is licensed to practice in Utah as well as Arizona. A magna cum laude graduate o...

Shaleen Brewer has handled a variety of transactional corporate, real estate, and employment matters on behalf of her clients. Shaleen has a diverse general business practice that includes structuring, negotiating and documenting commercial contracts of all varieties and corporate planning, formation and governance; asset protection and risk management; stock and asset sales and acquisitions; corporate dissolutions; and counseling companies on day‐to‐day operational and business matters for b...

Craig Cartwright is the Managing Shareholder of Buchalter’s Scottsdale office and Co-Chair of the Firm’s REIT Transactions and Compliance Industry Group. Craig represents lenders, developers, real estate investment trusts, investors, and national corporations real estate transaction matters including sales and acquisitions, secured lending, property development, commercial leasing, and construction-related matters. Mr. Cartwright has significant experience drafting and negotiating...

Chad Conelly practices in a wide variety of employment, business, and real estate matters, focusing on employment disputes, business and real estate litigation. He works tirelessly for his clients and injects his own passion into their causes. With deep experience in his areas of practice, and his measured approach, Chad has earned him a loyal following. He has attained a “Superb 10.0” rating on Avvo.com, been selected in the “Best Lawyers” list of the top Commercial L...

Tom serves as chair of the Insurance Coverage practice group for the firm’s Phoenix office. He provides insurance coverage analysis and advice to many commercial insurance companies. At one time or another, he has provided his clients with coverage advice under the laws of nearly all 50 states. Tom offers a unique depth of experience, having analyzed coverage under commercial general liability policies as well as commercial auto, professional liability, public officials liability, law e...

Keith R. Galbut leads Galbut Beabeau’s corporate, construction, real estate, and outside general counsel practices. Keith has extensive experience in corporate and real estate transactions, including matters of corporate formation and governance and the negotiation of commercial contracts, employment agreements, license agreements, leases, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of businesses. He often protects his clients’ rights and advances their interests in commercial and real estat...

Martin R. Galbut brings decades of counseling and litigation experience to the firm. He combines a distinct blend of corporate, securities, banking, real estate, antitrust, intellectual property, and finance counseling and litigation experience with tenacious thoroughness and unmatched client service. Martin represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases involving securities, banking and finance, labor and employment, corporate governance, intellectual property, antitrust...

Jonathan Goebel is the managing attorney at Rosenstein Law Group based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He serves clients throughout the Greater Phoenix metro area and across Arizona, focusing on DUI and criminal defense. With nearly 20 years of practicing criminal law, Jonathan Goebel has litigated criminal matters ranging from misdemeanors to complex felony cases throughout Arizona. Jonathan is compassionate and genuinely cares for the well-being of his clients while being an aggressive advocate and...

Jill Ann Herman is a litigator with over twenty-five years of extensive experience in complex litigation. Her innovative case handling has resulted in defense verdicts and awards, both at trial and arbitration. Jill Ann’s areas of concentration include product liability, personal injury, professional liability, sexual abuse claims, general liability, construction law, construction defect, dram shop liability, transportation, and transactional matters. She has experience representing a w...

Glenn Hotchkiss practices primarily in the area of commercial litigation, with a focus on breach of contract and business tort claims, including interference with contractual and prospective business relationships, fraud, conspiracy, conversion, defamation, business disparagement, trade secrets, covenants not to compete, and usurpation of corporate opportunity. For example, he has represented shareholders of closely held corporations in breach of fiduciary duty claims, joint venturers in disp...

Colby Kanouse is the managing attorney at Stone Rose Law in Scottsdale, Arizona. Serving clients throughout the Greater Phoenix metro area and across the state of Arizona, focusing on criminal defense and personal injury. Attorney Colby Kanouse and the dedicated team at Stone Rose Law are accepting new clients. We are committed to the welfare of our clients in Arizona. We provide superior legal representation that is cost-effective and affordable. Call today at (480) 498-8998 to schedule your...

Craig Knapp handles wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases throughout the State of Arizona. Craig has over 30 years of experience handling complex personal injury matters. He has gotten numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients. In addition to serious personal injury cases, Craig handles medical malpractice and nursing home abuse cases.

Attorney Vicki Lopez is a Certified Criminal Law Specialist who devotes 100% of her practice to criminal defense. She has decades of experience representing clients in the entire spectrum of criminal matters, from misdemeanors to major felonies, such as homicide and sex offenses. Vicki received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Arizona State University and a master’s in International Politics from the University of Southampton, England. She graduated from Arizona State Colleg...

Kevin Lytle is member of Buchalter’s Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the Firm’s REIT Transactions and Compliance Industry Group, and Co-Chair of the Scottsdale office Real Estate Practice Group. Mr. Lytle represents clients in a broad range of real estate transactions involving sales and acquisitions, leases, sale-leasebacks, construction and permanent loans, acquisition loans, refinancings, loan and lease modifications and intercreditor agreements. He represents public and privat...

Mr. Mason counsels employers and management on all aspects of labor and employment law, including collective bargaining and union organizing; restrictive covenants; employment discrimination; sexual harassment; whistleblowing; retaliation; wrongful termination; personnel policies; reductions in force; trade secrets; duty of loyalty; drug and alcohol testing; and other state and federal laws, rules, and regulations. He is also an experienced litigator, representing clients in Arizona, federal,...

Robert Miller is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s Scottsdale office and member of the Insolvency & Financial Law practice group. Mr. Miller’s practice focuses on distressed business situations of all kinds, including chapter 11 restructurings, non-bankruptcy workouts, turnarounds, and distressed company mergers and acquisitions. His clients range from private equity firms, to institutional lenders, companies in distress, fiduciaries, and other key constituencies in chapter 11 case...

John C. Mitby serves as counsel for numerous businesses, engineering firms, insurance companies, financial institutions, and health care and elder care facilities. Mr. Mitby’s commercial practice includes resolving a variety of matters relating to contracts, real estate, employment, financing, and business and insurance litigation. Since Jan. 1, 2015 Mr. Mitby is a senior partner Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C. From 2009 to 2014 Mr. Mitby was Axley Brynelson, LLP's managing partner.;...

Mr. Rogers’ practice focuses on corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, real estate finance, and all kinds of business transactions. He regularly represents investors and companies as they conduct securities offerings and other finance and capital transactions as well as advising them through ordinary course legal issues. He is Chair of the State Bar of Arizona’s Securities Regulation Section and Past Chair of the Business Law Section. Clients often turn to Mr. Rogers to ...

About Craig Rosenstein Craig Rosenstein is the founder and owner of Rosenstein Law Group, now open since 2007 in Scottsdale, Arizona. After graduating from Arizona State University College of Law, Craig practiced criminal law. He then opened the Rosenstein Law Group, PLLC, with the first attorney he hired being his then-fiancé' (now wife) of over ten years. Rosenstein Law Group is a full-service criminal defense firm that provides the defense to those accused of all types of charges, w...

Brian J. Schulman focuses his practice on complex commercial and securities litigation. He represents individual and corporate clients in prosecuting and defending a wide-variety of business disputes, including contract matters, fraud, securities law violations, shareholder disputes, real estate transactions, lender liability, mortgage fraud and officer/director liability. Brian is former General Counsel to the Securities Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission, where he spent five yea...

Buzzi L. Shindler is the Litigation Chair of the Scottsdale office. He has extensive experience and tried-and-true expertise handling a broad range of commercial, transactional and litigation matters, with an emphasis on real estate and business transactions, business formation, governance and operations, estate planning, outside general counsel, and commercial, real estate and construction litigation.

James David Smith (“Dave”) is a practicing DUI & criminal defense attorney at the Rosenstein Law Group in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Smith has a strong focus on the defense of the impaired driver. He successfully defends clients facing all degrees of criminal charges ranging from misdemeanor DUI offenses to felony assault charges throughout the Phoenix metro area and Courts in the state of Arizona. James David Smith is a U.S. Army Desert Storm war veteran who regularly provides ...

Dan is a franchise, licensing and distribution attorney who represents clients in all aspects of franchise and distribution law. His practice focuses on franchise structuring and development, preparation of franchise disclosure documents and agreements, franchise registrations and exemptions, franchise relations, franchise compliance, franchise avoidance, international franchising, mergers and acquisitions of franchise systems, distributorships and licensing. Dan represents both franchisor an...

Preceding his retirement in 2023, Paul M. Weiser was a shareholder in the firm’s Scottsdale office. He focused his practice on commercial landlord/tenant matters, including the drafting, interpreting and enforcing of leases and amendments related to office, retail, medical and industrial properties, real estate brokerage issues, construction claims/defenses, and creditors’ rights/debt collection. He also provided advice and counsel to clients on the day-to-day operation of their b...

Eric Wilhelm is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group in the Firm’s Scottsdale office. Mr. Wilhelm’s practice focuses on a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including industrial, office and retail leasing, real property sales, acquisitions and development and secured financing. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Wilhelm served as Senior Counsel, Real Estate, for PetSmart, Inc., where he provided a pragmatic, business-minded approach toward issue resolution and r...

Michael Zimmerman’s practice is concentrated primarily in commercial litigation, including condemnation and bankruptcy. Zimmerman advises a wide range of commercial and individual clients in business disputes and collection matters in state and federal courts. Zimmerman also advises clients on banking and financial services matters, workouts and licensing issues. His bankruptcy experience includes representation of secured and unsecured lenders, landlords and a wide range of debtors in ...

Mr. Zitzer is a litigation attorney. Kurt was recently honored by his peers by being selected once again as one of the Top 50 attorneys in the Southwest by Southwest Super Lawyers®. Additionally, AZ Business magazine recently selected Kurt as one of Arizona’s top 100 lawyers and a top 10 lawyer in the area of Employee Benefits and Insurance Law. Kurt is also included in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Insurance Law and Products Liability Litigation – Defense. ...

Daniel Bernardone's practice primarily consists of commercial litigation, insurance coverage, insurance bad-faith litigation, and civil litigation. Dan is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the Jurimetrics Law Journal, externed for the Honorable Michelle Burns (U.S. District Court, District of Arizona) and was inducted into the Order of Barristers. Dan’s practice includes experience dealing with...

Howard is an appropriately aggressive trial attorney, with a previous career in law enforcement. Howard diligently and tirelessly works to empower justice and defend his client’s rights. Howard’s reputation and hard work earned him not-guilty verdicts for the majority of his jury trials. Howard’s experience includes countless bench trials, evidentiary hearings, probable cause hearings, and in-custody Initial Appearances. Howard is an active member of various professional org...

Grant H. Frazier represents clients in business and complex litigation and arbitration matters involving commercial contracts, securities, corporate governance, real estate, construction, partnership disputes, trademark protection, and trusts and estates. He has represented clients in state and federal courts in Arizona and the Ninth Circuit, and in arbitration proceedings before the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He also prepares c...

Austin represents his client’s rights with the utmost dedication in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, and a variety of business litigation matters. In his catastrophic injury practice, Austin handles car and motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, bicycle crashes, elevator failures, insurance bad faith, and insurance malpractice. He also has experience handling a variety of traditional commercial litigation, including business-to-...