Arizona Attorney - December 2015

Jennings Strouss & Salmon PLC announced that two new attorneys, Robert K. Rogers and Christopher J. Rogers, have joined the firm’s Phoenix office, expanding the firm’s Corporate, Securities and Finance legal services.

Robert Rogers joined the firm as a Member. His practice focuses on business and corporate law with an emphasis on finance and private/ public securities offerings. He previously practiced in the corporate and securities departments of large New York and Salt Lake City law firms.

Christopher Rogers joined the firm as an associate. His practice focuses in the areas of general corporate law and private securities offerings.

Two Osborn Maledon partners — Mary O’Grady, an appellate attorney, and Ronda Fisk, a commercial litigator—were named to Benchmark’s Top 250 Women in Litigation, a guide to North America’s leading women litigators.

Stephanie Tribe, an attorney in the Phoenix office of Fennemore Craig, was elected to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix Board of Directors. She replaces Susan Wissink, chair of the firm’s business and finance practice group, who previously served as a board member for nine years.

Tribe focuses her practice in estate planning, taxation, and probate.

Booker T. Evans, Jr., a white-collar criminal defense attorney and commercial litigator in Ballard Spahr’s Phoenix office, was honored by the Arizona Diversity Council as one of the 2015 DiversityFIRST individual award winners. The award honors individuals, community groups, nonprofits, and businesses within the legal, academic, corporate, or health community that have demonstrated outstanding achievements and sustained commitment to the pursuit of cultural diversity and inclusion in the community and workplace.

Gallagher & Kennedy shareholder Mark Dangerfield will reach his 10-year goal of running a marathon or ultramarathon in all 50 states and on all seven continents as he runs his final marathon in Kansas City, Mo., on October 17. At age 65 and after battling a cancer scare, Dangerfield will soon join the short rank of runners who have accomplished this feat worldwide.

Patrick Irvine, a shareholder in the Phoenix office of Fennemore Craig, was appointed to the arbitration panel for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, where he will act as a neutral decision-maker in resolving securities-related disputes involving brokerage firms and brokers. FINRA operates the largest securities dispute resolution forum in the country, and the decisions of its arbitrators are generally final and binding.