September 4, 2025…Phoenix, AZ) The law firm of Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A., is pleased to announce that Edward Y. Gao has joined the Firm as associate. He will focus his practice on civil litigation. Gao joins Burch & Cracchiolo after a clerkship with the Honorable Jennifer M. Perkins at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One.
Gao earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Southern California. He then spent six years working as a project manager for a health and safety receiver in California. While working full-time in that role, he completed an MBA with an emphasis in finance at Loyola Marymount University.
In May 2024, Gao earned his J.D., cum laude, from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he was a Dean’s Award recipient, Pedrick Scholar, and Executive Managing Editor of the Corporate and Business Law Journal. While in law school, Gao published An Unreasonable Expectation: Defining “Sufficient Notice” in Amending Declarations of Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions, 5 Corp. & Bus. L. J. 1 (2024).
About Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A.
Now with 36 attorneys in its Phoenix office, Burch & Cracchiolo is one of the Southwest's premier law firms. The firm was founded 55 years ago by Haze Burch and Dan Cracchiolo and today the firm’s lawyers are among the most highly regarded and recognized leaders in the areas of business and corporate law, criminal law and defense, construction, estate and wealth preservation planning, family law, finance, labor and employment, litigation, personal injury and insurance defense, real estate, tax and zoning and land use.
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