Top Commercial Lawyers in ZIP 85253 | 4 available

6720 N. Scottsdale Rd. , Scottsdale , Arizona 85253

Practice Areas: Insurance, Commercial, Litigation

Karla Thompson practices in the areas of commercial litigation and transactions, healthcare and disability insurance litigation. Her focus includes business and insurance contracts, real estate development, commercial leases, business and medical practice acquisitions, medical operations, lender liability, business torts, distressed asset litigation, employment, fraud, anti-solicitation and unfair competition, corporate governance, and insurance bad faith.

8601 N Scottsdale Rd Suite 300 , Scottsdale , Arizona 85253

Practice Areas: Appellate , Corporate , ERISA, Real Estate , Commercial, Commercial, Commercial, Partnership

Firm: Galbut Beabeau, P.C.

6720 North Scottsdale Road , Scottsdale , Arizona 85253

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Appellate , Banking & Finance, Business & Commercial, Business Formation, Business , Class Actions, Contracts, Copyrights, Corporate , Employment & Labor , Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities , Trademarks, Litigation, Litigation, Business, Partnership, Securities Offerings, Securities & Investment Fraud, Employment & Labor, Real Estate, Commercial, Arbitration, Mediation

Martin R. Galbut brings decades of counseling and litigation experience to the firm. He combines a distinct blend of corporate, securities, banking, real estate, antitrust, intellectual property, and finance counseling and litigation experience with tenacious thoroughness and unmatched client service. Martin represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases involving securities, banking and finance, labor and employment, corporate governance, intellectual property, antitrust, real estate, environmental, regulatory, and health care matters.. Martin is widely regarded as one of the leading business attorneys in Arizona. His excellence has been recognized as such on many occasions by The Best Lawyers in America®, Southwest Super Lawyers®, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, Legal Leaders, AZ Business Magazine, The Phoenix Business Journal, Phoenix Magazine, Arizona Executive Magazine, and AZ Big Media. He was named Best Lawyers 2019 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Banking and Finance; 2017 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Governance Law; and 2015 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Governance Law.. Because of his extensive experience and broad background across the wide range of legal practices areas implicated in running a successful business, Martin has the unique ability to provide fractional general counsel services in a manner that takes into account all relevant considerations – monetary and otherwise.. Martin's efficacy as an attorney and reputation for providing counsel in an ethical way have engendered great respect for him within the Arizona legal community. This respect is recognized by, among other things, his receipt of the Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent rating (the highest possible peer review rating in legal ability and ethical standards) for the last 36 years (1984–2020).. Martin has been a lecturer and moderator for the State Bar of Arizona’s continuing education programs and a frequent panelist at professional conferences on securities, commercial real estate, and intellectual property law. He has also published numerous articles and seminar materials in the areas of securities law, commercial real estate litigation, arbitration, and mediation.. Appointed by the Governor of Arizona, Martin served on the Governor’s Task Force on Urban Air Quality. Appointed by the Mayor of Phoenix, Martin served on the City of Phoenix Environmental Quality Commission. For several years, Martin also chaired the Arizona State Air Pollution Control Hearing Board. He has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).. Martin graduated from Northwestern University in 1968. He earned his law degree cum laude from Northwestern University Law School in 1971, where he was an Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, a Clarion DeWitt Hardy Scholar, a Francis S. Kosmerl Foundation Scholar, and a recipient of the first 'Student Who Contributed the Most to the Intellectual Life of Northwestern University' award.. In addition to the law, Martin’s passions are his family, international travel, landscape painting, and collecting art and antiques. In 2019, he won First Place in Painting in the Arizona Bar’s Creative Arts Competition. Martin won this same award in two prior years. His works were most recently featured in the Arizona Attorney magazine in May 2019.

Firm: Galbut Beabeau, P.C.

6720 North Scottsdale Road , Scottsdale , Arizona 85253

Practice Areas: Business, Securities Offerings, Real Estate, Commercial, Arbitration, Litigation

Michaile J. Berg is a Phoenix native and received her B.S., summa cum laude, from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in 2005 and J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2009.. While in law school, Mrs. Berg served as a law clerk for a regional law firm in Phoenix, Arizona, where she assisted in the creation and implementation of a nationwide document retention project for the firm’s Document Control Group. Mrs. Berg was a Pedrick Scholar and active member of the Women’s Law Student Association. In 2009, she was awarded the Women’s Law Student Association Member of the Year for her dedicated service to the organization as Treasurer and 3L Representative and her commitment to advancing women in the legal profession.. In her free time, Mrs. Berg enjoys traveling, outdoor activities, and spending time with her family.