Arizona Attorney - January 2017

Partner of the Year in recognition of the firm’s longstanding pro bono support.

The Florence Project also presented firm attorney Brian Kim with the Children’s Program Pro Bono of the Year award for persevering through difficult cases.

Phil Guttilla was elected to the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce board of directors. He is a shareholder and vice chair of the corporate and transactional practice group at Polsinelli, Phoenix. Besides being a business attorney, he is a CPA and a chartered financial analyst. He focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, VC and private equity fund formation, and business transactions.

Two attorneys recently were appointed by Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and the City Council to the Phoenix IDA, an industrial development authority. Fennemore Craig attorney Darcy Renfro is the Senior Director of The Arizona We Want at the Center for the Future of Arizona. Lawrence Robinson is the Director of the Maricopa Community College District’s Center for Civic Participation; he also serves on the Roosevelt School District Governing Board and the Executive Committee of the Arizona School Boards Association.

The following pro bono attorneys were honored
by the Maricopa County Volunteer Lawyers
Program as “Attorney of the Month”: Peggy
LeMoine (May 2016); Sarah M. Glover (June);
Scott R. Ferris (July); Donald W. Powell
(August); and J. Robert Walston and Jennifer
L. Walston (September).

Kevin J. Walsh was elected to the Hon Kachina Council, a nonprofit organization of professional men and women who are dedicated to promoting volunteerism in Arizona.

He is an attorney in the Phoenix office of Quarles & Brady LLP, where he is a member of the Business Law Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, early-stage and emerging growth companies, equity and debt financing, crowdfunding, and general business counseling.

Katie Callaway, an attorney in the estate planning and probate practice of Fennemore Craig, Phoenix, was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Phoenix Boys Choir.

She practices in the area of estate planning and probate law. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as Associate Editor for Wealth Strategies Journal.

Jeff Brodin of Brodin HR Law, Phoenix, was elected as a Fellow by The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers of the American Bar Association. He joins 14 other Fellows in the state of Arizona in the field of labor and employment law.

Gallagher & Kennedy shareholder Kevin Neal was appointed to the Board of Directors for Maricopa Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting Maricopa Integrated Health System, Arizona’s only public health care system.

He practices in civil litigation, with an emphasis on aviation law, commercial litigation, medical malpractice, product liability, wrongful death and personal injury.