Kathi Sandweiss, a former award-winning journalist and past chair of the Arizona State Bar Appellate Practice Section, is an appellate lawyer. She loves the appellate process – reconstructing convoluted trial records and complicated fact patterns, discussing and distinguishing difficult cases, writing persuasive, winning briefs, and presenting argument to the appellate courts. Kathi has written over a hundred appellate briefs in the Arizona Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, U.S. District Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Arizona Supreme Court, and United States Supreme Court. Kathi wrote the amicus brief in the landmark Mid Kansas case and the winning Petition for Review to the Arizona Supreme Court in BT Capital v. TD Service. With nearly 30 years of experience writing briefs, Kathi understands the unique challenges of an appeal. Her appellate practice spans the gamut of substantive law including commercial lending, business disputes, large-scale fraud, professional liability, contested probate matters, family law, bankruptcy, and trustee’s sales. Kathi is co-author of the book “Inside the Minds: Strategies for Consumer Bankruptcy Appeals” and is author and co-author of numerous appellate materials. She regularly presents seminars on Bankruptcy Appeals and Civil Appeals and is a regular faculty member at the Arizona Appellate Practice Institute. “Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.” (Ambrose Bierce).
Lawyer Profile
Kathi M. Sandweiss
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Recognized Since:2016
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Recognized in:Appellate Practice
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Law School:Arizona State University
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Languages:English
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Location:3200 North Central Avenue, Suite 2000Phoenix, AZ 85012
Kathi Sandweiss, a former award-winning journalist and past chair of the Arizona State Bar Appellate Practice Section, is an appellate lawyer. She loves the appellate process – reconstructing convoluted trial records and complicated fact patterns, discussing and distinguishing difficult cases, writing persuasive, winning briefs, and presenting argument to the appellate courts. Kathi has written over a hundred appellate briefs in the Arizona Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, U.S. District Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Arizona Supreme Court, and United States Supreme Court. Kathi wrote the amicus brief in the landmark Mid Kansas case and the winning Petition for Review to the Arizona Supreme Court in BT Capital v. TD Service. With nearly 30 years of experience writing briefs, Kathi understands the unique challenges of an appeal. Her appellate practice spans the gamut of substantive law including commercial lending, business disputes, large-scale fraud, professional liability, contested probate matters, family law, bankruptcy, and trustee’s sales. Kathi is co-author of the book “Inside the Minds: Strategies for Consumer Bankruptcy Appeals” and is author and co-author of numerous appellate materials. She regularly presents seminars on Bankruptcy Appeals and Civil Appeals and is a regular faculty member at the Arizona Appellate Practice Institute. “Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.” (Ambrose Bierce).
Lawyer Bio
Education:
- Arizona State University, J.D., graduated 1986
- University of California Los Angeles, BA, graduated 1977
Bar Admissions:
- Arizona, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1986
- United States, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Court Admissions:
- United States, United States Supreme Court
Affiliations:
- American Arbitration Association®’s Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators - Member
- Arizona Appellate Practice Institute - Faculty
- Arizona State Bar Appellate Practice Section - Past Chair
- Maricopa County Superior Court - Former Judge Pro Tem
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:
- Appellate Practice
Awards:
- Women in the Law 2017, Best Lawyers
- Comercial Arbitration Panel Member, American Arbitration Association, 2016
- Best Lawyers in America- Appellate Practice - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Best Lawyers in America- Appellate Practice, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Additional Information:
Professional and Civic Service
· Lecturer on a variety of appellate practice issues, including participation in annual Arizona State Bar seminar, "Bankruptcy Ambushes Lurking in the Legal Jungle."
· Organized and moderated 2001 Arizona State Bar convention seminar, "Don't Lose Your Appeal: Traps for the Unwary."
· Also lectured on Uniform Commercial Code-Sales, attorney conflicts and disqualification, inheritance rights of adoptive children, the Arizona homestead statute, and more.
· Published articles include "Adoptive Child's Right to Inherit," Arizona Attorney, March 1997; "Preserving the Family Farm in an Urban Age: Recent Changes to the Arizona Judgment Lien and Homestead Statutes," Arizona Attorney, September 1997 and "Foreign Judgments and Community Property," Arizona Attorney, November 2009.
· Master of the Bench, Former Horace Rumpole American Inn of Court
· Temple Chai, Healing Committee
· Girls on the Run, Previously Volunteered as a Running Buddy
· Hospice of the Valley, Former Volunteer
· Wills for Heroes Foundation, Volunteer
Firm Details
Jaburg Wilk PC
http://www.jaburgwilk.com
Headquarters
3200 North Central Avenue, Suite 2000
Phoenix, AZ 85012
(602) 248.1000
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