Braving the Storm: Dealing with Opposing Counsel and the Court

Nancy A Greenlee Related Seminars and Products

Nancy A. Greenlee, sole practitioner, specializes in representing lawyers in disciplinary proceedings. From 1990 to 1996, she served as a State Bar of Arizona staff bar counsel responsible for investigation and prosecution of matters involving violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Nancy was a member of the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Committee from 2007 to 2016. She is the chair of the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group. She is a former lawyer member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct and a former Board member of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the Maricopa County Bar Association. Nancy graduated, with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986, and worked in private practice, handling primarily plaintiff’s personal injury cases and general litigation matters including some dissolution cases. Nancy frequently serves as a panel member for CLE seminars dealing with professional conduct and ethics. She can be reached at (602) 264-8110 or nancy@nancygreenlee.com.

Donald Wilson Jr Related Seminars and Products

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Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson PC

is a senior member in the law firm of Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson, P.C., which he joined in 1981. Mr. Wilson is an experienced litigator, with substantial trial experience. He concentrates his practice on the defense of attorneys in malpractice and disciplinary matters. Mr. Wilson served as a Judge Pro Tem on the Maricopa County Superior Court bench for twenty years, and is a past president of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. He is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and is certified in legal malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys. Mr. Wilson was selected by his peers as a Best Lawyer in legal malpractice in 2011-2019 and has been named Lawyer of the Year for legal malpractice defense by Best Lawyers in 2014, 2016 and 2019. He has also been nominated as a Southwest Superlawyer in legal malpractice for multiple years, including 2019. He is also a member of the Arizona Attorney Ethics Advisory Group. Mr. Wilson completed his undergraduate education and obtained his law degree at Arizona State University. In his leisure time, Mr. Wilson enjoys the company of his wife, Mary, and is an avid reader and archery hunter. Mr. Wilson can be reached at dwj@bowwlaw.com.

Craig D Henley Related Seminars and Products

State Bar of Arizona

Craig Henley is a motivated, personable lawyer with thirty (30) years of trial experience in a variety of forum including, but not limited to, local, state and federal courts in the states of Arizona, Louisiana, Texas and Ohio. Craig is licensed in both the State of Arizona and State of Louisiana (inactive) but has practiced exclusively as Senior Bar Counsel with the State Bar of Arizona for the last eleven (11) years. He has previously served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Louisiana 16th Judicial District Attorney's Office and practiced law with various sized law firms in the State of Arizona. Craig was a partner at the Law Offices of Henley & Hicks and solo practitioner at the Law Office of Craig Henley for six (6) years. Among his high-profile cases, Craig has successfully litigated a securities fraud case in the State of Ohio valued at well over one hundred eighty million dollars ($180MM), prosecuted an extensive voter fraud case in the State of Louisiana and represented the State of Arizona Treasurer.

Lacey Alexandra Stover Gard Related Seminars and Products

Judge Lacey Gard was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two, in 2022. She previously served as a Pinal County Superior Court Judge, where she was assigned to a civil rotation.

Prior to being appointed to the bench, Judge Gard worked for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office for 17 years, most recently serving as a Deputy Solicitor General and Chief Counsel of the Capital Litigation Section. In that capacity, she supervised the State of Arizona’s appellate litigation in all death-penalty cases statewide, including direct appeals, state post-conviction proceedings, and federal habeas corpus proceedings. She also supervised the State’s litigation in non-capital federal habeas corpus cases. She previously served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Appeals Section, and began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge J. William Brammer, Jr., on Division Two. Judge Gard has served on various Arizona Supreme Court and State Bar Commissions and committees, has taught advanced legal writing and appellate advocacy at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and was a frequent faculty member for state and national trainings in the areas of criminal law, capital sentencing, appellate advocacy, and federal habeas corpus. Judge Gard graduated summa cum laude and with honors in 2000 from the University of Arizona, receiving a B.A. in Political Science. She received her J.D. from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2003.

Stephen P Little Related Seminars and Products

State Bar of Arizona

is Senior Bar Counsel in the State Bar of Arizona's Lawyer Regulation Division and a Judge Pro Tempore for the Maricopa County Superior Court. Steve has prosecuted numerous Lawyer Regulation cases over the years, in addition to presenting substantive CLEs on legal ethics and professional responsibility. Steve also runs and oversees the State Bar's Law Office Management Assistance Program, which offers in-person law office management assistance to lawyers in need. Steve has previously worked as Assistant Ethics Counsel for the State Bar, as a prosecutor for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in the Major Crimes Division, and has run his own legal practice, representing personal injury clients and defending lawyers from ethics and malpractice complaints.