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CHRISTOPHER J. BERRY is an attorney with Berry & Branch, PLLC, in Phoenix. His practice consists exclusively of litigation and trial work, representing plaintiffs and defendants in both injury and commercial lawsuits. Mr. Berry has been primary or lead counsel in significant municipal liability and wrongful death cases, including Norberg v. Maricopa County, and in numerous other cases where settlements approached and exceeded one million dollars. He earned his B.A. degree, with highest distinction, from the University of Arizona and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Houston, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as chief research editor of the Houston Law Review. Mr. Berry is a frequent speaker on police and municipal liability. He is the board director of Justice for Children-Arizona, a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation and resources for victims of child abuse. MACK JONES is a partner with the law firm of Bohm & Jones, P.C., where he practices in the areas of civil practice and personal injury law with a focus in premises liability cases on the plaintiff's side. He is a certified specialist by the State Bar of Arizona in the areas of wrongful death and personal injury. Mr. Jones earned his B.A. degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. degree from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association. LEAH PALLIN-HILL left the Maricopa County bench in May 2002, where she was a commissioner and Judge pro tem to open her office for mediation and arbitration of civil disputes. Immediately prior to her appointment to the bench in 1997, Ms. Pallin-Hill was a general civil litigator at the law firm of Gallagher and Kennedy. She graduated cum laude from both Brooklyn College and the Arizona State University College of Law, and was a law clerk for former Vice Chief Judge Eino Jacobson at the Arizona Court of Appeals and former Chief Justice Stanley Feldman at the Arizona Supreme Court. She has had more than 150 hours of mediation training including mediating the litigated case and mediating construction disputes at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine College of Law. Ms. Pallin-Hill has served on the State Bar ADR and Family Law Executive Councils, and speaks often at both Maricopa County and State Bar seminars. She has mediated a wide variety of civil cases since 2002 and is proud to have a better than 97% settlement rate in the more than 1150 cases she has handled. JARED SCARBROUGH is an attorney with Holm Wright Hyde & Hays, PLC, where he concentrates his practice on construction law, green building and construction, insurance defense and subrogation, trucking law, and commercial litigation. He also is an editor of and contributor to a construction law blog. He manages a diverse caseload of general civil and construction litigation and insurance defense matters in various state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Scarbrough has been responsible for initial case assessment and budgeting; case development and litigation strategy; extensive client contact; hiring of experts; taking and defending depositions; all court appearances, including jury and bench trials; settlement negotiations; mediations and arbitrations; and drafting pleadings, motions, discovery, and all trial-related documents. He received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. K. THOMAS SLACK is a partner with the Phoenix firm of Beale, Micheaels & Slack, P.C., where his main areas of practice are torts, medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death litigation, insurance litigation, products liability and railroad litigation. Mr. Slack earned his B.A. degree, with highest honors, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Hastings College of Law, University of California. He is an associate with the American Board of Trial Advocates and a Judge Pro Tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court. Mr. Slack is a member of the State Bar of Arizona (member, Fee Arbitration Committee and the State Bar Jury Instruction Committee).
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