Brett C. Gilmore

For 25 years Dana Levy has exclusively practiced family law, including matters involving divorce, complex property and debt division, business valuations, parenting time and legal decision making issues, paternity, spousal maintenance, child support and post-decree disputes. She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her Juris Doctorate degree from Arizona State University. She is certified as a Family Law Specialist by the State of Arizona’s Board of Legal Speci...

P. Derek Petersen is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Litigation - Environmental. P. Derek, who practices law in Phoenix, Arizona, has been recognized since 2018. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which P. Derek is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

David practices in the area of environmental and natural resources law, focusing on environmental compliance auditing, Superfund, solid and hazardous waste, asbestos, water quality, underground storage tank, environmental management systems, environmental remediation and environmental due diligence matters. He has conducted over 120 comprehensive environmental audits throughout the United States and internationally over the past eight years. He was recently named among the 2013 Best Lawyers i...

Daniel E. Durchslag is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Real Estate. Daniel E., who practices law in Phoenix, Arizona, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Daniel E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Tim Strong is an accomplished litigator who, for nearly twenty years, has focused his practice on the defense of complex insurance coverage and bad faith actions. Tim has successfully defended high-stakes cases ranging from class actions attacking institutional claim-handling practices, to individual personal-lines bad-faith cases, to complex commercial matters seeking coverage under D&O, CGL, builders risk, commercial property, and cyber-risk policies. Tim regularly defends workers'-comp...

Jon is a partner at O'Steen & Harrison, PLC. He joined the firm in 2005 and practices in the areas of personal injury, car accidents, contaminated food, legal malpractice, insurance bad faith, defective products and commercial litigation. He graduated from Occidental College in 2002 (B.A., Economics and Political Science) and the Arizona State University College of Law in 2005 (J.D., cum laude). He served as Senior Articles Editor of the Arizona State Law Journal and was a Willard H. Pedr...

Appellate specialist Thom Hudson has decades of experience with hundreds of appeals in state and federal courts on a broad range of topics, including state and federal constitutional issues, torts, contracts, insurance bad faith, Indian law, and punitive damages. Among other things, Thom’s appellate work has helped to secure gaming rights for tribal nations, protect voter registration rights for individuals, protect judges’ pensions rights, safeguard Arizona’s implied home w...

Michael E. Pietzsch is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Tax Law. Michael E., who practices law in Phoenix, Arizona, has been recognized since 1987. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Michael E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Karen represents health care systems, hospitals, clinics, and other providers in matters of quality management, medical staff credentialing and peer review, medical staff structures, bylaws and confidentiality, as well as National Practitioner Data Bank, state professional board, and other government reporting. She also regularly assists health care providers with state licensure and Medicare certification, survey compliance, Joint Commission accreditation, EMTALA compliance, patient consent,...

Phil has developed a reputation as a formidable trial attorney in complex commercial litigation matters. Recently, he second chaired a five-month bench trial representing a Native American tribe in complex, multi-party litigation adjudicating the tribe’s federal reserved water rights claims for its reservation. He also regularly represents businesses in intellectual property litigation as well as public utilities in complex litigation matters, including actions initiated by government e...