Real estate and land use attorney Michael Phalen has joined Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Transactions practice group. More >>

John Vassiliades recently joined our growing Phoenix office. John’s practice focuses on intellectual property, technology focused business transactions and general business law for technology based businesses. A registered patent attorney, John has negotiated hundreds of business transactions that develop and monetize intellectual property rights. These include licensing, Research & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet Technologies, E-Commerce, commercial OEM/VAR product distribution deals, strategic alliances, equity joint ventures, due diligence, patent strategy, risk assessments, among many other structures and projects. John handles both domestic and international transactions. He has also served on litigation teams as an IP advisor on cases involving computer software infringement, trade secret misappropriation, biotech patent infringement, trademark infringement and infringement involving mechanical/medical device inventions. More >>

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes former U.S. Congressman John B. Shadegg as shareholder to its Phoenix and Washington, D.C. offices. Shadegg brings extensive experience to Polsinelli’s national Public Policy Practice, including eight terms in Congress where he demonstrated leadership and a passion for health care and energy issues. More >>

John C. West and Robert M. Kort, attorneys with extensive experience in health care matters, have joined the litigation practice at Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP, one of the largest commercial law firms in the western United States. More >>

Kendis Key Muscheid, one of the leading nonprofit tax lawyers in the Southwest, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the Phoenix office, Chair Mark Stewart announced today. More >>

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that W. Scott Jenkins, Jr. has joined the firm’s Phoenix office as a partner in its Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights Practice Group.

Jenkins serves as a legal advisor to over a dozen national, regional, and community banks, and helps financial institutions with real estate and commercial loan restructuring and workouts, loan and guaranty enforcement actions, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, and receiverships and commercial bankruptcies. More >>

Booker T. Roberts, Jr., a prominent white collar criminal defense attorney and commercial litigator with more than 25 years of experience defending multimillion-dollar cases for businesses and individuals, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in Phoenix, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today.

Mr. Roberts was Chief Deputy District Attorney in Las Vegas and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Nevada and Arizona before entering private practice. He currently serves as Judge Pro Tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court. More >>