Snell & Wilmer Announces New Partners and Counsel

PHOENIX – Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce 15 attorneys have been elected to join the firm’s partnership, effective March 1, 2025. Additionally, three attorneys were promoted to the counsel role, effective January 1, 2025.

Snell & Wilmer’s newly elected partners are:

Andrew B. Still, Bankruptcy and Reorganization, Orange County
Still focuses his practice in bankruptcy and commercial litigation. As part of the firm’s bankruptcy, insolvency & business reorganization group, Still concentrates his practice on business bankruptcy matters and related issues. He has a multi-faceted practice representing chapter 11 debtors-in-possession, as well as secured and unsecured creditors in all types of bankruptcy proceedings. Still also has significant experience representing defendants in bankruptcy avoidance actions and fraudulent transfer actions.

David W. Wilhelmsen, Commercial Finance, Phoenix
Wilhelmsen practices commercial finance and real estate law. He guides clients through the loan documentation and due diligence process, with the overarching goal of minimizing risk and ensuring proper securitization. Wilhelmsen also helps clients navigate the unique issues associated with lending in Indian Country and has developed strong working relationships with members of the National Indian Gaming Commission, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and other regulatory entities. Wilhelmsen is licensed in both Arizona and New Mexico.

Creighton P. Dixon, Commercial Litigation, Phoenix
Dixon primarily advises clients in three areas: construction law, water law, and commercial litigation. His construction practice includes advising owners and contractors as it relates to contract negotiations, licensing concerns with Arizona’s Registrar of Contractors (ROC), the Prompt Pay Act, and disputes between the parties, including mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens. Dixon’s water practice includes helping clients in various industries, ranging from developers to mines, with issues relating to water rights, supply, and transfer.

Laurie R. Hager, Commercial Litigation, Portland
Hager focuses her practice in business litigation, commercial real estate and leasing, construction, enforcement of creditors’ rights, and insurance coverage. She has experience representing clients in a wide range of industries, including construction and real estate. She regularly assists clients with contract disputes, negotiations, and resolutions. Hager represents clients in federal and state courts, arbitration, and mediation.

Annika L. Jones, Commercial Litigation, Salt Lake City
Jones focuses her practice in high-stakes litigation including complex commercial disputes, real estate transactions, malpractice defense, products liability, and constitutional and statutory interpretation. Jones prides herself on approaching each and every case, no matter the size, with strategic precision. She represents clients at all stages of litigation, including in pre-litigation discussions and throughout trial and appeal, and regularly appears in state and federal court.

Tyson J. Prisbrey, Commercial Litigation, Salt Lake City
Prisbrey focuses his practice in complex commercial and corporate litigation, including litigation in construction law, corporate governance, and general contractual disputes. He has experience advising public and private companies in disputes stemming from mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, corporate control, and alternative entity dissolutions. Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, Prisbrey gained significant experience in representing clients in the Delaware Court of Chancery, litigating commercial and corporate matters.

Patrick A. Tighe, Commercial Litigation, Phoenix
Tighe has a varied commercial litigation practice and assists clients in resolving complex disputes through trial, alternative dispute resolution, and on appeal. He has experience in many types of business disputes, including real estate and construction litigation, employment litigation, appellate law, business tort and corporate governance litigation, class action, internal investigations, civil rights and constitutional litigation, replevin, and judgment enforcement. In his appellate practice, Tighe has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Scott A. Wiseman, Commercial Litigation, Salt Lake City
Wiseman’s practice focuses on commercial litigation matters such as contract disputes, corporate management and shareholder lawsuits, real estate and leasing disputes, employment matters, and other miscellaneous lawsuits. He has represented clients through all phases of litigation from inception to resolution — including pre-litigation, discovery, depositions, motion practice, alternative dispute resolution, trial, and appeal.

Erin Denniston Leach, Labor and Employment, Orange County
Leach’s practice is concentrated in employment litigation and counseling. She provides clients with ongoing counseling on a wide range of personnel matters including hiring and termination decisions, employment agreements, policy drafting, wage and hour issues, and employee medical leave. She represents employers in state and federal courts and arbitration, as well as before administrative agencies, in disputes regarding wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, unfair competition, trade secrets, reasonable accommodation of disabilities, retaliation, wage and hour (individual and class actions), and other types of employment matters.

Julie K. Kelly, Private Client Services, Phoenix
Kelly focuses her practice in the areas of complex estate and wealth preservation planning, probate and trust administration, fiduciary law, business succession planning, and gift and income taxation as it relates to estates, trusts, and individual beneficiaries. Kelly’s clients include commercial real estate investors, business owners, physicians, lawyers, executives, and farmers. She particularly enjoys advising families regarding inter-generational planning strategies to encourage the smooth transition of wealth, whether it be comprised of the family business, commercial real estate, or the family farm, from one generation to the next.

Michael T. Maerowitz, Real Estate, Phoenix
Maerowitz is a member of the firm’s real estate group and focuses his practice on zoning and land use planning. Maerowitz represents landowners and developers in navigating the land use entitlement process for all types of developments in various jurisdictions throughout Arizona. These developments range from small urban infill projects to large residential, commercial, and industrial developments. He also has experience representing developers and landowners in the acquisition and sale of real estate.

Casey J. Stiteler, Real Estate, Reno
Stiteler focuses his practice on real estate transactions and land use matters regarding residential, commercial, and multi-family property development. Additionally, Stiteler provides counsel on real estate and commercial contracts, purchase agreements, and other related matters.

Derek Flint, Special Litigation and Compliance, Phoenix
Flint is a member of the firm’s special litigation and compliance Group. As a litigator, Flint works on a wide variety of matters in state and federal court, at both the trial level and the appellate level. His litigation work includes representing clients on matters relating to constitutional law, healthcare law, election law, government contracting, business disputes, and real estate law. On the compliance side, Flint advises clients on matters concerning the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and HIPAA privacy.

Tracy A. Olson, Special Litigation and Compliance, Phoenix
Olson provides creative representation to clients in high stakes matters including constitutional rights, governmental relations, election law, and healthcare law. She advises clients regarding their constitutional rights (businesses, industry groups, individuals) and constitutional powers (governmental entities). In court, Olson develops sophisticated constitutional strategy at both the trial and appellate level and is well versed in federal constitutional issues, including substantive and procedural due process, the Seventeenth Amendment, and voting rights.

Ryan J. Regula, Special Litigation and Compliance, Phoenix
Regula is a member of the firm’s special litigation and compliance group, where he utilizes his government experience to guide his clients through all aspects of their administrative law needs at both the federal and state level. Regula represents publicly and privately held companies, government agencies, and other political offices. His practice includes assisting clients with strategic counseling when facing complex regulatory issues, investigations, enforcements, and policy development.

Snell & Wilmer’s newly promoted counsel are:

Cody Fierro, Corporate and Securities, Phoenix
Fierro concentrates his practice in corporate and securities, assisting with the negotiation and preparation of transactions in multiple industries. Cody drafts purchase agreements, corporate governance documents, shareholder and director approvals, vendor and supplier agreements, and other ancillaries for proposed multi-million dollar mergers, acquisitions, and asset purchases. He has also prepared regulatory filings to establish corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.

Sarah Hibbard, Corporate and Securities, San Diego
As an attorney and former in-house general counsel, Hibbard helps technology, life sciences, and digital health companies create a strong legal foundation and position themselves for growth on the journey from research to commercial success, drawing on in-house start-up and multibillion-dollar company experience. Her focus includes general corporate governance, private debt and equity financings, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as structuring and negotiating intellectual property and commercial transactions such as licensing and tech transfers, collaborations, pre-clinical and clinical research, research and development activities, and manufacturing.

Amanda Z. Weaver, Ph.D., Commercial Litigation, Phoenix
Since joining the firm after clerking for the Honorable Robert M. Brutinel at the Arizona Supreme Court, Weaver focuses her practice in commercial litigation. She assists clients in complex appeals and other appellate litigation. In her appellate practice, Weaver has been involved in appeals before the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Arizona Court of Appeals, and the Arizona Supreme Court. In her litigation practice, Weaver assists clients in resolving commercial and contractual disputes, including constitutional claims and issues of statutory interpretation.