2024 Civil Procedure Updates

Honorable M Scott McCoy Related Seminars and Products

Maricopa County Superior Court

HONORABLE M. SCOTT MCCOY was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona in 2009. Prior to that he served as a Commissioner for the Court. Before his appointment to the bench, he practiced with the firm of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon. He received his Juris Doctorate, Summa Cum Laude in 1990, from The University of Arizona College of Law, and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Cum Laude in 1987, from the University of Southern California. He is part of the American Bar Association Judicial Division Mentor Program and has served on the State Bar of Arizona Legal Services Committee and the State Bar of Arizona Continuing Legal Education Committee. He speaks for the State Bar of Arizona Course on Professionalism. He is a Volunteer Judge for the ASU Moot Court Competitions: and Mock Trial Program. He is also a past member of the Men’s Anti-Violence Network and the Maricopa County Volunteer Lawyer’s Program.

John W Rogers Related Seminars and Products

Staff Attorney

Supreme Court of Arizona

JOHN W. ROGERS — Staff Attorney with the Staff Attorneys’ Office of the Arizona Supreme Court. From 1982 to 2013, he practiced at Brown & Bain P.A. and (after a 2004 merger) Perkins Coie LLP, where he specialized in complex litigation, product liability, antitrust, and general commercial litigation. Mr. Rogers received a B.A. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University in 1976, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1980, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1980. Before entering private practice, he served two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Tang of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Rogers has been a member of the State Bar Civil Practice and Procedure Committee since 1997, and served as chair of that committee from September 2007 through June 2011. He also served as a member of the State Bar Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct from 2000 to 2016. Also, from 2006 to August 2014, he served as chair of the Civil Practice Subcommittee of the Local Rules Committee for District of Arizona.

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 Andrew M Jacobs Related Seminars and Products

Arizona Court of Appeals

Judge Andrew Jacobs 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. 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.

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.