Attorney Overview

Michael L. Aguirre

Known for his extensive work in corporate and business law, Michael Aguirre excels at helping organizations of all sizes and maturities address complex legal and business challenges.

Keith is a seasoned litigator with experience in a broad range of complex commercial disputes including business torts, legal malpractice, litigation involving directors and officers, theft of trade secrets and restrictive covenants.

Kent Brockelman

Kent represents employers in a wide variety of employment matters and serves as principal outside employment counsel for a number of employers headquartered or with substantial operations in Arizona.

Patricia Velarde Burnett

Patricia focuses her practice on guiding businesses through all stages of growth, from structuring ownership and governance protocols to navigating capital raises, debt financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, particularly with respect to emerging growth and venture-backed companies.

Jill Chasson

Jill focuses on helping businesses of all sizes and in a variety of industries with their employment law needs. She provides practical advice to employers regarding compliance with the many federal and state laws that govern the workplace and regularly provides training for supervisors and human resource professionals.

Sam Coppersmith

Sam’s practice centers on business and transactional issues, with an emphasis on business organization, corporate governance, exempt organizations, contract negotiation, land use, and business planning.

Amanda Coulter

Amanda regularly advises clients in the health care industry on clinical research matters. Amanda has extensive experience developing research compliance policies and processes, drafting and editing informed consent documents and HIPAA authorizations, and creating research-related policies and template agreements.

John DeWulf

John has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, including handling numerous trials, hearings and other matters before state and federal courts in the areas of contracts, business torts, trade secrets, real estate, securities, intellectual property, partnership and products.

Erin F. Dunlap

As a former litigator who successfully represented clients in federal and state courts and before arbitrators, government agencies and licensing boards, Erin is particularly well-equipped to lead clients through privacy and security-related investigations.

Andrew T. Fox

Andrew T. Fox is a commercial litigator, representing clients in complex commercial disputes and business torts. He has experience litigating in federal and state court. Andrew has represented clients in various industries, including healthcare, hospitality, real estate development, and finance.

Andy Gaona

Andy focuses his practice on election, political, and public law. He advises candidates, political action committees, political party organizations, nonprofits, and government entities on issues of campaign finance, ballot access, election mechanics, and election-related litigation.

Andy Gordon (Ret.)

Andy is a seasoned senior litigator with 40 years of experience and a national reputation in business, antitrust, health care law, government contracting, and procurement and appeals.

Katherine Hyde

Katherine advises clients in the health care industry on compliance with federal and state data privacy, security, and patient access laws, as well as data breach notification laws.

John Kelly

John has substantial experience representing for-profit and not-for-profit companies in a wide variety of legal and business areas, from commercial, employment, tort and insurance-related litigation to real estate, corporate management, health care and school law issues.

Kelleen Mull

Kelleen Mull is a commercial litigator with experience representing a broad range of clients in complex litigation. She has assisted clients in business and commercial disputes, insurance recovery, and constitutional and governmental litigation. Kelleen also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Karen Owens

Karen represents health care systems, hospitals, clinics, other providers and managed care organizations in matters of quality management, medical staff/network credentialing and peer review, medical staff structures, bylaws and confidentiality, as well as National Practitioner Data Bank, state professional board, and other government reporting.

Kristen Rosati

Kristen is considered one of the nation’s leading “Big Data” and HIPAA compliance attorneys. She also has deep experience in data breaches, health information exchange, data sharing for research and clinical integration initiatives, clinical research compliance, and biobanking and genomic privacy.

Marvin Ruth

Marvin has substantial experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts in Arizona and Nevada. His practice primarily focuses on business disputes and litigation, including partnership disputes, real estate litigation, business torts and fraud claims.

Malvika A. Sinha

Malvika Sinha is an experienced litigator who represents both corporate and individual clients across a wide range of industries, with a focus on legal malpractice, healthcare litigation, and high-stakes business disputes. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies, small business owners, and everything in between.

Melissa Soliz

Melissa practices in the area of regulatory health care law, assisting clients in structuring real-world policies, programs and agreements to ensure innovative health care practices are compliant with state and federal laws, while maximizing client goals.

Marki Stewart

Marki Stewart assists hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, telemedicine providers, and other health care organizations in a variety of business and regulatory issues, including the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, reproductive health law in the wake of the Dobbs decision, medical practice acquisitions, Arizona Department of Health Services licensing issues, medical staff peer review matters, and hospital-physician joint ventures.

Ben Yeager

Focused on health care and data privacy law, Ben Yeager guides organizations in compliance with HIPAA, the ONC Information Blocking Rule, and state health information confidentiality and consumer privacy laws.

Austin Yost

Austin focuses his practice on political law and commercial litigation. He represents clients in trial and appellate courts in a wide range of matters involving, among other things, election litigation, state and federal constitutional issues, real estate transactions, and various business disputes. Austin also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on civil rights and criminal justice issues.