Mr. Prey is not only a kind and thoughtful man who deeply cares for the well-being of his students, but he also is a fantastic teacher. He has helped lead me into the marine biology field, which is now the career I am interested in.
Todd Julian, partner at Burch & Cracchiolo, talks insurance coverage and limits.
Fellow teacher Brad Boucher nominated Monica, writing: “Monica has the heart of a true teacher. She loves going to work every day. She goes above and beyond outside of the classroom too.”
The first thing to do is remain calm, and quickly determine if anyone is seriously hurt or in need of immediate medical attention. Call 911 if there is any question and let the professionals provide the necessary medical care. If you’ve been involved in a car accident, be careful of other vehicles, and move your car or get out of the way if it is safest to do so.
Ochoa earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2013 and an LL.M in tax law from NYU School of Law in 2014. He received a B.A. in accounting, summa cum laude, from the University of Arizona in 2008. Prior to beginning his law practice, he clerked for the Honorable Juan F. Vasquez of the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C from 2014-2016. Ochoa has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas teaching Federal Tax Research.
Julie K. Lauria has been selected to serve on the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel (AADC) Young Lawyers Division board. The appointment was effective November 29, 2022 and she will serve a one-year term.
Az Business magazine’s Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona for 2023 were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 of the state’s most talented and successful attorneys. Selections were made in conjunction with industry experts, using an algorithm that ranks the attorneys based on professional ratings, impact on their law firm, impact on the profession and community involvement. Law firms could have a maximum of three attorneys make the list in 2023.
Burch & Cracchiolo is pleased to honor special education teacher Kristen Jahrman from Isaac Middle School as the December Star Teacher.
Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., is pleased to announce Madison Leake has joined the Firm as an associate. Leake is a recent Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law graduate who will focus her practice on land use/zoning and real estate.
“I love teaching STEM in all its forms,” comments Colledge. “The kids are excited and eager to learn about gravity, volcanoes, hurricanes, ecology and so much more. I love putting that spark in them.”
For 52 years we have participated in the growth and development of our business community and we demonstrate our continued commitment to the health and well-being of our Valley and State through our financial contributions, sponsorships and volunteerism in non-profits and economic development organizations.
The practice areas represented are Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Criminal Defense, Employment Law, Land Use & Zoning Law, Insurance Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Real Estate Law and Personal Injury Litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Burch & Cracchiolo proudly names Tracey Brody the recipient of the October 2022 Star Teacher Award. She is a veteran teacher of 21 years who teaches 8th grade social studies at Hillcrest Middle School in Glendale, Arizona
Burch & Cracchiolo today proudly announced that Firm partner Wendi A. Sorensen has been elected to the board of directors of Arizona Foundation for Women. She will serve a three-year term that commenced October 1, 2022.
An attorney at a firm in direct competition with Burch & Cracchiolo recently described Burch & Cracchiolo as “good people who happen to be great lawyers.”
Burch & Cracchiolo proudly names Natalie Richardson the September 2022 Star Teacher. For the last 27 years Richardson has been teaching kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade at Kyrene del Cielo Elementary School in the Kyrene School District in Chandler.
For the 2nd year in a row Burch & Cracchiolo is proud to announce their selection as a Most Admired Company in the Valley by AZ Big Media, the group of publications that is home to AZ Business Magazine, AZRE, Ranking Arizona and AZ Business Leaders among others.
Burch & Cracchiolo is pleased to present their 36 attorneys named as 2022 Top Lawyers by Phoenix Magazine
Burch & Cracchiolo proudly names Gary Horowitz the August 2022 Star Teacher. For the last 15 years Horowitz has been teaching 11th grade history and government at Barry Goldwater High School in the Deer Valley Unified School District. Horowitz received a check for $500 to be used for classroom supplies or other non-reimbursable costs.
Best Lawyers in America © honors the top 6% of private practicing attorneys in the US. Selection is based on more than 8 million evaluations.
Jennifer Delgado is a partner at Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., and practices law in the areas of business and real estate transactions. She received her J.D. from Boston College, and her B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Abbey has been teaching 6th grade math for 5 years at Frye Elementary School in the Chandler Unified School District. Prior to becoming a teacher, she worked for Disney World in Orlando and she brings her own special brand of magic to her students every day.
Burch & Cracchiolo has been ranked in Band 1 as a leading law firm in land use & zoning in Arizona in the newly published Chambers USA 2022-America’s Leading Lawyers in Business.
Burch & Cracchiolo proudly names Lauren Hawks the May 2022 Star Teacher. An Arizona State University student who is receiving her master’s degree this week, Hawks has been teaching 7th grade math for 2 years through the Teach for America program at Pueblo del Sol Elementary in the Isaac School District.
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., is pleased to announce Rosary A. Hernandez has joined the Firm as partner and Katelyn E. Towe has join as an associate.
Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a rigorous, multiphase rating process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Attorneys selected represent only 5% of attorneys.
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., is pleased to announce R.J. “Bucky” Slomski has been elected an executive board member of Feeding Matters, the first organization in the world dedicated to advancing the system of care for pediatric feeding disorder. He has been elected to a three-year term beginning March 9, 2022. Slomski is a top-rated trial advocate who focuses his practice on serious personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death claims.
Burch & Cracchiolo proudly names Wes Harder of Norterra Canyon School as the March 2022 Star Teacher. Harder has been teaching 5th grade math, social studies and science for 6 years and recently came onboard as the school Athletic Director.
The recent sale of 12,081 acres of land in the near Sun Valley Parkway and the Loop 303 to BA Pacific Sun Valley LLC was handled by Burch & Cracchiolo president Andy Abraham. Abraham represented the group purchasing the property that includes Levine Investments Limited Partnership, Andrew Cohn and Gary Tharaldson. The seller was WVSV Holdings, an entity affiliated with Conley Wolfswinkel of W Holdings based in Tempe, AZ.
Representing defendant Tellurian Development Company, Burch & Cracchiolo attorney Ralph Harris with assistance from Andy Abraham and Daryl Manhart, successfully argued a third-party beneficiary issue to the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Buckeye’s Verrado High School music and band director Tracy Meldrum has been selected as the February Star Teacher by the Phoenix law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. She has been at Verrado since it’s opening in 2006 and has grown the band program from 9 to 96 members, competed in over 70 competitions, 13 state championships, and six state finals.
Ed Bull, certified specialist in real estate law, Burch & Cracchiolo, attributes his career success to an often-used quote. “I have been very lucky in my profession. Over the years, the harder I work, the luckier I get,” he says. Any luck aside, Bull has definitely put in the work, over five decades, at the firm he joined while in law school at Arizona State University.
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce Courtney Wilson as the January 2022 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” Wilson is a 3rd grade teacher at Hopi Elementary School in the Scottsdale Unified School District where she has been teaching for 20 years. She earned her B.A. in education from Arizona State University in 2001.
TGen Ambassadors are a new generation of innovators taking up the mantle of leadership that propels the TGen vision forward. An invitation-only network of working professionals and emerging leaders, TGen Ambassadors make an annual monetary gift, but their commitment goes beyond philanthropy to advocacy within their networks and beyond.
The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals is a professional association whose membership consists of ADR professionals distinguished by their hands-on experience in the field of civil and commercial conflict resolution. Membership is by invitation only and all Academy members have been thoroughly reviewed and found to meet stringent practice criteria.
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce Jennifer R. Delgado has been named a Firm shareholder effective January 1, 2022. Delgado joined Burch & Cracchiolo in 2017 and focuses her practice on the representation of entrepreneurial individuals and companies in all areas of transactional business and real estate law
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce Cinnamon Robles as the December 2021 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” Robles is an Ajo, Arizona raised first-grade teacher at San Simon School in Sells, AZ on the Tohono O’odham reservation. She is in her third year of teaching and was formerly teaching fourth grade English at Eisenhower Innovation Center in the Mesa Public School District.
Episode 68's guest is Andrew Miller, land use, zoning and real estate attorney at Burch & Crachhiolo, talks to Michael and Amy about short-term rental do's and dont's.
Julie has joined the Firm as an associate. She is a recent Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law graduate who will focus her practice on employment law and litigation.
Burch & Cracchiolo is proud to announce Mr. Kelly Batke of Centennial Middle School has been named the November 2021 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” Batke has been teaching special education students in 6th-8th grade students for 10 years. Centennial has an enrollment of 750 students and is located in the Kyrene School District. The District covers portions of Tempe, Phoenix, Chandler and Guadalupe and serves over 15,000 students.
B&C partner Susie Ingold instrumental in big win for Humane Society of the United States case against a Puppy Mill operator
Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. has achieved first-tier rankings in metro Phoenix in US News & World Report “Best Law Firms” rankings for 2022. The practice areas represented are Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Criminal Defense, Employment Law, Land Use & Zoning Law, Insurance Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Real Estate Law and Personal Injury Litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Michael and Amy talk to the renowned family law attorney from Burch & Cracchiolo about the pandemic and how its impacted the nation’s divorce rate, as well as how separated households make parenting decisions surrounding COVID-19.
Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce Connie Starr of Villa Montessori Charter School has been named the October 2021 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” Starr has been teaching for 29 years.
R.J. Bucky Slomski appointed to AZ State Bar Certified Legal Specialists Advisory Commission
Burch & Cracchiolo accepts 2021 Most Admired Companies Award
Clark L. Derrick named to AZ State Bar Board of Legal Specialization Criminal Law Advisory Commission
Burch & Cracchiolo sponsors new "AZ Big Podcast with Michael and Amy"!
The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is proud to announce MSG (R) Jeffrey Rice of Maryvale High School has been named the September 2021 recipient of the “B&C Star Teacher Award.” MSG Rice has been a JROTC instructor at Maryvale High School for 6 years.
Burch & Cracchiolo named a 2021 Most Admired Company by AZ Business Magazine
