Alden A. Thomas

Alden A. Thomas

recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2026
Awarded Practice Areas
Employment Law - Individuals Litigation - Labor and Employment
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Jaburg Wilk PC

18 Best Lawyers awards

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Biography

Alden chairs the firm’s Employment and Education Law Departments. She assists employees and employers with wage and hour disputes, harassment and discrimination claims, restrictive covenant disputes, whistleblower claims, and federal and state compliance issues. In her education practice, she assists students and educators with residency, tuition, disability accommodation, discrimination and retaliation, disciplinary matters, and tenure and promotion disputes. Alden has substantial experience representing clients in state and federal court, private arbitration, mediation, and in administrative proceedings. Her wide array of experience affords her unique insight into how to best protect her clients’ interests.

Alden has been recognized as a Southwest Super Lawyer Rising Star, Best Lawyers One to Watch, and Phoenix Magazine Top Attorney. Before entering private practice, she clerked for the Honorable Patricia Orozco (Ret.) at the Arizona Court of Appeals.

Alden enjoys giving back to her community and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Audrey’s Angels and volunteers for the Times Up Legal Defense Fund. She has also coached multiple undergraduate and law school moot court teams. In 2017, the ASU Law Moot Court Board named her the Coach of the Year after her Representation in Mediation team placed third at the ABA’s national competition. Alden won the national championship as a competitor in law school.

Works at
Jaburg Wilk PC

18 Best Lawyers awards

Jaburg Wilk PC logo

Locations

Education

  • Arizona State University, J.D., , graduated 2014
  • The University of Texas, B.A, (Highest Honors), graduated 2010

Bar Admissions

  • Arizona, 2014

Court Admissions

  • United States District Court, District of Arizona, 2016

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Arizona: Employment and Labor Section - State Bar Convention Committee, 2021-present
  • Arizona State Bar - Member
  • Arizona Women’s Lawyers Association - Member
  • Ladder Down - Member, 2017

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2027 for work in:
  • Employment Law - Individuals
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America from 2023-2025 for work in:
  • Education Law - 2025
  • Labor and Employment Law - Employee - 2025
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2025
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2025
  • Education Law - 2024
  • Labor and Employment Law - Employee - 2024
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2024
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2024
  • Education Law - 2023
  • Labor and Employment Law - Employee - 2023
  • Labor and Employment Law - Management - 2023
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment - 2023
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Commercial Litigation
Awards:
  • Phoenix Business Journal’s "40 Under Forty", Class of 2026

  • Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion Platinum, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • CALI Award Recipient Lodestar Mediation Clinic
  • AVVO Rated - Superb
  • Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion Silver, 2020
  • Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion Gold, 2021, 2022
  • Southwest Super Lawyer, Rising Star, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Phoenix Magazine - Top Lawyer, Education, Labor & Employment, 2022, 2023, 2024

Additional Information

  • Community Involvement
  • TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, Member
  • Employment 411, Member
  • Audrey’s Angels, Former Board of Directors, 2020-2025
  • Texas Exes – Phoenix Chapter, Former Board of Directors, 2020-2025
  • Arizona Lawyers Employment Lawyers Association, Annual Convention Committee, 2019-present
  • ASU Law, Moot Court Coach of the Year, 2017

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