Total Credits: 1.5 CLE
Join a panel of judges and civil practitioners as they discuss updates in Arizona Civil Practice and Procedure and related cases.
Chair:
William Fischbach, Tiffany & Bosco PA
Faculty:
Honorable Erik Thorson, Maricopa County Superior Court
John Rogers, Supreme Court of Arizona
Additional Faculty To Be Announced
| CivilProcedureUpdate_FINALMATERIALS (4.1 MB) | 109 Pages | Available after Purchase |
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.
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.
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.
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