Snell & Wilmer LLP

Hadar Avraham and Paul Pappalardo have joined the firm in the Phoenix and Tucson offices. Avraham will practice with State and Local Tax group in both Phoenix and Tucson. Pappalardo will practice with the Intellectual Property group in Phoenix.

The Stanford Law School Board of Visitors has played an important role in helping the dean of the law school respond to particular challenges facing legal education.

Tucson attorney Stephen J. Young has joined the UApresents advisory board.

Constitutionality of Legislative and Congressional Boundaries Challenged; Court filings show Districts Reflect Partisan Bias

Each year, the Pegasus Scholarship Trust sends two American Inns of Court members to London, England, to study the British legal systems for six weeks.

Michael J. Detro has been added to the business and finance group as an associate in the Phoenix office. He was a Snell & Wilmer legal intern in 2008.

John C. Vryhof, a partner in the Phoenix office, has been appointed State Chair of Arizona for the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. His Chair appointment is for a term of one year with presumptive appointments for a total of five years.

Snell & Wilmer's Phoenix office has been voted the number one law firm in Arizona by Ranking Arizona: The Best of Arizona Business, the largest business opinion poll of its kind in the state.

Snell & Wilmer attorneys Bill Poorten, Andrew Jacobs, Dan Wierzba and Kate Foss recently assisted firm client, Professional Transit Management of Tucson, Inc., in overturning a century-old standard of care for common carriers in Arizona.

Susa has been elected to the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, Catalina Council in Tucson. Susa was also elected to the Council's Executive Committee and appointed to the position of Vice President - Legal for the Council.