Experience
Selected Appellate Experience
- Won reversal from the Ninth Circuit of a criminal conviction as unconstitutional.
- Won judgment in an original jurisdiction action at the Arizona Supreme Court in a constitutional challenge to a municipal client’s right to control its municipal-owned property.
- Won judgment in an original jurisdiction action at the Arizona Supreme Court in a constitutional challenge to a charter city’s right to hold municipal elections free from interference by the state legislature.
- Won judgment in the Arizona Supreme Court on a federal constitutional challenge to Arizona’s state constitutional restrictions on bail.
- Obtained reversal of criminal conviction in Arizona state court based on trial error.
Selected Complex Litigation Experience
- Obtained trial verdict in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona for a political party challenging the constitutionality of a state election law.
- Successfully defended political parties in post-election challenges brought in trial and appellate courts following the 2020 election.
- Obtained victory for commercial marijuana grower faced with constitutional and other legal challenges that threatened the existence of its business.
- Obtained victory for individual clients in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in challenge arguing Arizona’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples violated the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- Successfully obtained partial summary judgment on behalf of a debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute.
Selected Internal Investigations
- Conducted multiple internal investigations for a public resource extraction company into its compliance with environmental regulations.
- Conducted internal investigations for a municipal client regarding compliance issues.
- Conducted FCPA investigations on four continents for companies in a variety of industries, including the natural resources and food and beverage industries.
- Conducted internal investigations for companies related to accounting and financial improprieties.
Selected Government Investigations and Defense Work
- Obtained multiple deferred prosecution agreements for individual clients charged with financial crimes.
- Obtained dismissal of an indictment in a multiyear prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division involving the Classified Information Procedures Act and alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act.
- Participated in a multicontinent investigation for a communications company, which was disclosed to the U.S. Department of Justice and the UK Serious Fraud Office.
- Represented a major technology company in a multiyear government investigation in Arizona.