Legal Writing

In the list below, you will find the recent posts on the site that relate to the law or my legal practice.

June 2025 CLE about the Trial de Novo under A.R.S. § 12-910

At the end of June 2025, I was on a panel at the Arizona State Bar Convention for a CLE about the effects of A.R.S. § 12-910 on appeals from administrative cases at the Registrar of Contractors. Specifically, we were talking about the trial de novo provision. Who was the “we” on the panel? The panel…

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Understanding Trial De Novo in Arizona Law with Duncan v. Mack

Recently, I wrote about the Clout Construction memorandum decision, which is about the trial de novo available under A.R.S. § 12-910. That decision mentioned a case, Duncan v. Mack, in connection with the proposition that a trial de novo “should be tried in all manners as though the superior court were the court of original…

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