2024 Civil Practice & Procedure Symposium

William Morris Fischbach III Related Seminars and Products

Shareholder

Tiffany & Bosco PA

is a Shareholder in the Phoenix, Arizona office of Tiffany & Bosco, P.A. Will is an experienced trial attorney that concentrates his practice in commercial and civil litigation with an emphasis in real estate, intra-company and business disputes, eminent domain, and select catastrophic personal injury/wrongful death/medical malpractice cases. Will is rated AV® Preeminent™ in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, a member of Arizona's Finest Lawyers, and a member of the American Arbitration Association's (AAA) panel of arbitrators. Will's community activities include serving on the State Bar of Arizona's Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, the Camelback East Village Planning and Zoning Committee, and the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona. Will's first courtroom experiences were in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, where he served with the 101st Airborne Division and 82nd Airborne Division. Will was the lead prosecutor in two high-profile war crimes cases during the Iraq war-the Mahmudiyah Massacre and the Operation Iron Triangle killings-and won convictions in each case. He was honorably discharged in 2008 at the rank of Major. Will is a veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and the Republic of Korea, and is a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal. Will received his B.S. from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona and his J.D./M.B.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In his free time, Will enjoys training for and competing in Ironman races and short-course triathlons, as well as mountain biking and snowboarding. He lives in Phoenix with his wife Terri and their Chesapeake Bay retriever Chinook.

Honorable Sara J Agne Related Seminars and Products

Maricopa County Superior Court

was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court on December 13, 2017, and took the bench in early 2018. Judge Agne serves as the Arizona Tax Court Presiding Judge, and has a calendar that includes Commercial Court cases, while generally presiding over cases for the Civil Department of the Court. After graduation from the University of Michigan Law School, Judge Agne was a lawyer with Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., first as an Associate and then as a Partner in its Special Litigation and Compliance Group. Judge Agne co-chairs the Arizona Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence and has served for nine years on the State Bar of Arizona Civil Practice and Procedure Committee. The judge is a veteran petitioner of several court rules cycles for a variety of rule sets and chaired the Ariz. R. Civ. P. 5.4 Working Group in 2018 and 2019. During the pandemic, Judge Agne chaired the Task Force on Conducting Juvenile Court Proceedings Safely in a Community Experiencing the Spread of an Infectious Disease, earning recognition as a "Presiding Judge's COVID Hero" for that work. A former journalist, Judge Agne earned a B.A. in Journalism from Arizona State University, serving as Editor in Chief of the University's morning daily, The State Press, as a college senior.

Honorable Andrew M Jacobs Related Seminars and Products

Arizona Court of Appeals

was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Governor Katie Hobbs on February 21, 2023. He studied history at the University of Illinois, and graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1992, where he was a research assistant to Professor Laurence Tribe. He was a partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago and Snell & Wilmer in Tucson and Phoenix, and led Snell’s appellate practice for thirteen years. The Arizona Supreme Court has appointed Andrew to six bodies: Judicial Performance Review, the Task Force on the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, the Committee for Civil Justice Reform, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, the Task Force on Jury Data Collection, Practices, and Procedures, and the Task Force on the Rules of Procedure for Special Actions. Andrew has served on the Arizona State Bar’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee for fifteen years and was its Chair from 2014-18. He served in the Arizona State Bar Batson Working Group. Andrew was a principal initial drafter of Ariz. R. Civ. P. 26.2 (tiering) and has contributed to many more court rules. He served in the Ninth Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Rules and Civil Practice. He co-founded the District of Arizona’s pro bono program in 2006 and coordinated it for five years. He was the lawyer coordinator for the Ninth Circuit’s pro bono program from 2007-23 for Arizona and Nevada, and for the Arizona Court of Appeals for Division Two from 2014-23. He placed over 220 pro bono cases in these roles. Andrew was admitted to practice in Illinois, Arizona, and Nevada, joining their bars, the ABA, and the Arizona LGBT Bar, as a member of that community. He is also a member of AWLA, Los Abogados, and AAABA, and mentors in the Latina Mentoring Project. He re-founded the Arizona Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society and was its President for many years. Andrew argued sixty civil appeals among three federal circuits and six states. He took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court as counsel of record. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a Member of the American Law Institute, a co-editor of the Arizona Appellate Handbook, and was an Arizona State Bar Member of the Year in 2016.

Barry C Schneider Related Seminars and Products

Principal

Schneider Mediation

served on the Maricopa County Superior Court bench for 21 years from 1986 to 2007. Before his appointment to the bench he was an associate at Langerman, Begam, Lewis, Leonard & Marks and then a partner at Rosen & Schneider, Ltd. The Maricopa County Bar Association named Judge Schneider the recipient of the Henry S. Stevens Award as the outstanding judge for 1997. In 2002, Judge Schneider received the State Bar of Arizona President's Award given at the discretion of the President of the SBA to one "who has contributed enormous effort towards the furtherance of the president's goals and priorities." Also in 2002, the local chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates named him its Judicial Officer of the Year. In 2008 he was awarded the State Bar of Arizona James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award. He also received in 2008 the Binghamton University's Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service from his alma mater. He received his B.A. in 1964 and his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 1968 where he was an editor on the law review. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1968 and in Arizona in 1972.

Hon. Peter B Swann Related Seminars and Products

Arizona Court of Appeals - Division One

Peter Swann retired as a judge Arizona Court of Appeals in 2022, after fourteen years’ service on that court, including two years as Chief Judge. From 2003-2008 he was a judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, where he served in the Civil and Family Departments. From 2006-2008, he served as Associate Civil Presiding Judge and helped develop the court’s electronic filing system. As an attorney in private practice in Phoenix at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, he represented clients in commercial and constitutional litigation and commercial transactions. Swann received his law degree from University of Maryland Law School, where he graduated first in his class in 1991. After serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Norman P. Ramsey in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, he became a member of the State Bar of Arizona, receiving the highest score on the Arizona bar exam. Swann served six years on the Ethics Committee of the State Bar of Arizona, has served for the past 22 years on the Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure and also served on its Professionalism Committee. In 2013 and 2014, Swann served on a committee tasked with rewriting the Arizona Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure, and in 2015 and 2016 served on the Supreme Court’s Civil Rules Restyling Task Force and Family Rules Restyling Task force. In 2016 and 2017, he served on the Supreme Court’s Civil Justice Reform Commission. In 2008, Judge Swann was named “Judge of the Year” by the Phoenix Chapter of the Arizona Board of Trial Advocates. In 2016, Swann was named “Judge of the Year” by the Arizona Supreme Court. And in 2019, he was named “Judge of the Year” by the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. Since 2003, Swann has frequently served as a mediator in both appellate and trial court matters in all types of civil and family cases.

Danielle J Viola Related Seminars and Products

Superior Court Judge

joined the Maricopa County Superior Court in 2011. She currently serves as the Civil Presiding Judge. Danielle previously served as the Arizona Tax Court Judge, the Associate Criminal Presiding Judge, and the Administrative Judge for the Post-Conviction Relief Unit. She is the immediate past chair of the Jury Advisory Committee for the Maricopa County Superior Court, and she currently serves on the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence, the Court Interpreter Program Advisory Committee, and the State Bar Civil Practice and Procedure Committee. Danielle also served as a member of the COVID-19 Continuity of Court Operations During a Public Health Emergency ("Plan B") Workgroup. Before taking the bench, Danielle practiced in the area of commercial litigation at Snell & Wilmer LLP.

Christopher Witten Related Seminars and Products

Lance R Broberg Related Seminars and Products

Tiffany & Bosco PA

is a shareholder and trial attorney with Tiffany & Bosco, P.A. For over 15-years, Lance has focused extensively on matters involving intra-corporate disputes, contract disputes, real estate disputes, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, restrictive covenants, and trade misappropriation claims. Licensed in both Arizona and New Mexico, Lance has successfully tried a dog leash violation, multi-million-dollar jury verdicts, and most everything in between. Important for this CLE, Lance was asked to serve on the Civil Department Task Force, Innovation Subgroup, which was tasked with exploring methods to reopen the Courts for jury trials in the new and post COVID-19 environment. Lance was also asked to serve as Plaintiff's counsel in live and virtual mock jury trials to be utilized nation-wide for purposes of determining how courts may reopen following the COVID-19 pandemic. Lance was honored to help. Through the process Lance participated in the formation of programs, such as the Certified Arbitration program, that are now operational in Maricopa County-and yes, Lance went through the application process and is now a Certified Arbitrator.

Jessica J Fotinos Related Seminars and Products

General Counsel and PIO

Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court

Esq. William G Klain Related Seminars and Products

Lang & Klain PC

a member of Lang & Klain, PC, focuses his practice on complex corporate and commercial litigation. He is a 2012-2022 Super Lawyers® selectee in business litigation and is listed in Best Lawyers in America® for commercial litigation and bet-the-company litigation. Bill has served on the State Bar of Arizona's Civil Practice and Procedure Committee since 2000, and chaired the Committee from 2011-2014. He is an appointed member of the Arizona Judicial Council's Committee on Superior Court. Previously, Bill served as Co-Chair of the Arizona Supreme Court's Task Force on the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure and as a member of the Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence, Committee on Civil Justice Reform, Business Court Advisory Committee, and Committee on Civil Rules of Procedure for Limited Jurisdiction Courts. Through these committees and task forces, Bill has been involved with the restyling of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, the Arizona Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure, and the Arizona Rules of Evidence, the initial drafting of the Justice Court Rules of Civil Procedure, the design of the Maricopa County Superior Court's Commercial Court pilot project, and a host of other civil rules projects, including the 2018 civil justice reform amendments and 2014 case management and trial setting rule amendments. He was awarded the Chief Justice's Outstanding Contribution to the Courts Award in 2016, the State Bar's Member of the Year Award in 2013, the State Bar President's Award in 2008, and the Scottsdale Bar Association's Award of Excellence in 2012. Bill teaches a course on Civil Pretrial Practice as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of law and has chaired or served on the faculty of more than 80 CLE programs for the State Bar and other professional associations. He has also authored a number of law-related articles for various publications. Bill is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the Scottsdale Bar Association. He received his J.D. from the University of Denver and B.A. from the University of Richmond. Bill lives in Phoenix with his wife, Carrie, and their two daughters.

Timothy M Collier Related Seminars and Products

Law Office of Timothy M. Collier PLLC

is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Arizona in August of 2009 to study and practice law. He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor in Behavioral Sciences and went on to get his Juris Doctorate from the Phoenix School of Law. Mr. Collier specializes in civil litigation and criminal defense, and has worked directly with Ms. Delgado since 2012. In his spare time, Mr. Collier volunteers as Chairman of the Board for Young Ones United, a child abuse prevention and awareness nonprofit organization located here in Arizona. Mr. Collier has two children, and loves riding dirt bikes and anything on water!

Ian Rafferty Joyce Related Seminars and Products

Mona Mehta Stone Related Seminars and Products

Mona Stone is an experienced, award-winning attorney and compliance specialist who has been in the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer role for nearly eight years at Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona (GCNA)/Goodwill Industries of Monocacy Valley (GIMV), and brings extensive prior law firm and in-house counsel experience to Goodwill. As a non-profit with nearly 6,000 employees, Goodwill is dedicated to ending poverty through the power of work. Notably, Mona also is the COO/CLO for Thrive Services Group Inc. By collaborating with communities and business partners, Thrive provides social innovation in housing, education, and health services in order to eradicate poverty.

While in private practice, Ms. Stone provided counsel to multi-billion dollar, global businesses and has significant expertise in employment, transactional, contractual, commercial, and compliance matters. Ms. Stone has served on several non-profit boards, including the Arizona Association of Corporate Counsel, ATHENA International, and the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession. She graduated from Bradley University in 1994 and earned her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 1997. Based on her many professional accomplishments and civic leadership, she has received many honors, most recently has been recognized as follows: 2023 Woman of Achievement through In Business Magazine; 2023 All in For Women Award honoree through Arizona Women’ Lawyers Association; 2022 “Trendsetter to Know” by the Arizona Foothills Magazine; 2022 State Bar of Arizona Outstanding In-House Counsel of the Year Award; “ATHENA Woman Leader Award,” 2021 Finalist, ATHENA International; “Most Influential Woman in Arizona Business”, 2021 Honoree, AZ Big Media; “Outstanding Woman in Business”, 2021 Honoree, Phoenix Business Journal; and “Goodwill for a Younger Generation”, 2021 Feature Article, Vanguard Law Magazine. Ms. Stone is an AV®-Preeminent rated attorney and is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Arizona.

Frank W Moskowitz Related Seminars and Products

is a graduate of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU. He was in private practice for 22 years before taking the bench in February of 2015. His practice was mostly civil, commercial, and probate litigation. He practiced at large and small law firms. He is currently serving on the Civil Bench. Before that he served on Criminal and Family/Probate assignments.