Jeffrey Messing

Email: messing@poliball.com

Professional Experience:

Member, Poli & Ball, P.L.C.

Phoenix, Arizona Office

 

Practice primarily concentrated in complex commercial litigation including: employment, professional liability, real estate and partnership disputes, lender liability, securities litigation, condemnation, election contests, zoning litigation, probate litigation, landlord/tenant and insurance coverage disputes

Other Professional Experience

Partner, Cook & Messing, P.L.C.

Partner, Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

Law Clerk Hon. William C. Canby - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Law Clerk Hon. Murray M. Schwartz - United States District Court for the District of Delaware

Education:

Yale Law School (J.D. 1981)

Fordham University (B.A. 1978 magna cum laude)

Professional Memberships and Activities

Arizona Supreme Disciplinary Commission (2005-Present – Chair April 2009-March 2010)

Arizona Attorney Discipline Task Force (2009-Present)

Committee on Examinations of the Supreme Court of Arizona (2003-Present – Co-Chair 2009-10)

Judge Pro Tem, Maricopa County Superior Court

Member Judicial Performance Review Committee

American Bar Association

Maricopa County Bar Association

Arbitrator National Association of Securities Dealers (1995-2005)

Hearing Officer, Arizona Supreme Court (1995-2005)

Volunteer Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona

Member Arizona Board of Real Estate Appraisers (1989-1995)

Member, State Bar of Arizona, Committee on Professionalism (1997-98)

 

Author: "On Municipal Takeovers of Investor Owned Utilities, A Reply to Professor Jones", Municipal Finance Journal, Fall 1991.

"Expert Witnesses and Conflicts of Interest", Arizona Attorney, November 2001.

Court Admissions:

New York 1982

Arizona 1984