Aug 17 2023

Best Lawyers® Recognizes 15 Coppersmith Brockelman Attorneys and 2 Lawyers of the Year

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Best Lawyers® has not only recognized 15 of our 22 attorneys for exceptional work in 17 categories, but also named Kent Brockelman “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation — Labor & Employment and Andy Gordon “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation — Health Care and Litigation — Antitrust. The Best Lawyers in America© is the longest-running peer-review publication in the legal profession. Each year, Best Lawyers conducts comprehensive surveys of tens of thousands of lawyers who confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Based on the results of these surveys, the publication designates the year’s leading lawyers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Coppersmith Brockelman attorneys recognized in the 2024 edition are: 2024 Best Lawyers Michael Aguirre: Corporate Law (2024) Keith Beauchamp: Bet-the-Company Litigation (2024),...

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May 18 2023

Marki Stewart Honored by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education as a Top 50 Pro Bono Attorney

Naomi Jorgensen
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Marki Stewart, nominated by the Florence Project for more than a decade of involvement with their Volunteer Lawyers Program, has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education’s Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys. The Arizona Bar Foundation created the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education to level the playing field so that all Arizonans have knowledge and access to the justice systems. Marki’s longtime commitment to helping unaccompanied immigrant children find safety and security in the U.S. has earned her this honor for embodying their noble mission. “It’s rewarding to help a child through the difficult immigration process, and to think about the possibilities if they are granted legal residency. I want them to...

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Kristen Rosati, Karen Owens, Mel Soliz, and Marki Stewart
Mar 23 2023

Four Coppersmith Brockelman Attorneys Lead Sessions at Arizona Health Law Conference

Naomi Jorgensen
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The Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys (AzSHA) hosted its Arizona Health Law Conference & Annual Meeting on February 24, during which local and national health law leaders covered monumental changes to health care law and policy over the last year. Coppersmith Brockelman health law attorneys — Melissa (Mel) Soliz, AzSHA president; Karen Owens, AzSHA VP and Director of Programming; and Marki Stewart, AzSHA’s Board Member; as well as Kristen Rosati (former AHLA President) — showed their deep experience on the topics ranging from data privacy, interoperability, and reproductive health rights to health equity and peer review. The event was a huge success among the Arizona health law community, as more than 140 attorneys, academics, compliance personnel and students were in attendance. Each Coppersmith attorney led their...

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Dec 13 2022

Marki Stewart Shares Strategies to Advance Racial Equity in Maternal Health Care on AHLA Podcast

Naomi Jorgensen
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Maternal mortality in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last 30 years, making it the highest rate among all developed nations worldwide. With the path to motherhood nearly four times deadlier for women of color, the American Health Law Association (AHLA) invited Marki Stewart to share insights on racial disparities and childbirth as part of its “Speaking of Healthcare” podcast. Amid this public health crisis heightened by COVID-19, Marki explained most maternal deaths are preventable and preceded by warning signs, but research shows unintentional discrimination leads many health care providers to dismiss, delay, or even deny treatment to women of color. Marki outlined two approaches to help healthcare attorneys mitigate these issues: tackling implicit bias head on or finding ways to work around it. Her...

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Aug 18 2022

Best Lawyers® Recognizes 17 Coppersmith Brockelman Attorneys and 2 Lawyers of the Year

Naomi Jorgensen
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Best Lawyers® has not only recognized 17 of our 21 attorneys for exceptional work in 19 categories, but also named Roopali Desai and Andy Gordon “Lawyer of the Year” in Civil Rights Law and Antitrust Law, respectively. The Lawyer of the Year designation is presented to only one individual in a given geographical region and practice area each year. Gordon previously won Lawyer of the Year five times, including in Antitrust Law in 2013 and 2018, Litigation – Antitrust Law in 2019, and Litigation – Healthcare in 2017 and 2021. Desai is a first-time Lawyer of the Year honoree and is the sixth attorney at the firm to have earned that recognition. Sixteen attorneys were honored as Best Lawyers in a wide range of practice areas. Additionally,...

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Coppersmith Brockelman Promotes Telemedicine Specialist Marki Stewart to Partner
Jun 28 2022

Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education Honors Marki Stewart as a Top 50 Pro Bono Attorney

Naomi Jorgensen
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Marki Stewart’s longtime commitment to helping unaccompanied immigrant children find safety and security in the United States earned her recognition as one of the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education’s 2022 Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys. Nominated by the Florence Project for more than a decade of involvement with the organization’s Volunteer Lawyers Program, Marki provides pro bono representation, guidance, and support that has a lifelong impact on children under threat of deportation. Currently, Marki represents an 11-year-old orphan from Mexico who traveled to the United States with her older siblings in 2019. She won a Motion to Dismiss the immigration removal proceedings, then obtained a legal guardian for the girl, who is now eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and awaiting approval for Permanent Legal...

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