JAY M. POLK is a member of Barron & Polk, P.L.L.C., which is Of Counsel to the firm in the Phoenix office. Mr. Polk received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Arizona State University.  He is admitted to the State Bar of Arizona, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Polk served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert D. Myers, who for most of the clerkship served as the presiding judge of the Probate/Mental Health Department of the Superior Court of Arizona for Maricopa County.  Mr. Polk subsequently spent a year serving as a law clerk to the Honorable E. G. Noyes, Jr., who at the time was a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals.  Mr. Polk has served as a co-chair and the legislative liaison of the Mental Health and Elder Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona and as a member of the executive council of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona.  He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (including serving on the Arizona chapter's Public Policy Committee), the State Bar of Arizona (including the Probate and Trust Law and the Mental Health and Law Sections), the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.  He is an associate editor of the 2000 Probate Code Practice Manual (4th Edition). In addition, between August 2001 and May 2003 Mr. Polk served as a member of the Legislative Committee of the Probate and Trust Law Section that considered Arizona's adoption of the Uniform Trust Code, and since March 2003 has been chairing the Probate and Trust Law Section's Non-Uniform Probate Laws Committee. A frequent speaker on probate, mental health, and elder law issues, Mr. Polk served as the president of the Board of Directors of the Council for Jews with Special Needs between January 2004 and July 2006 and is a member of the Advisory Council for Phoenix OASIS (Older Adults System and Information Services). Mr. Polk also is a certified private fiduciary, has served as a guardian ad litem for minors and incapacitated adults in probate-related matters, and serves as a judge pro tempore for the Superior Court of Arizona for Maricopa County.  He also had the honor of representing the Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona as an amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of Arizona in Johnson v. Myers, 184 Ariz. 98, 907 P.2d 67 (1995), which defined the scope of the probate division's subject matter jurisdiction.

• Reported Cases:  Denton v. Superior Ct., 190 Ariz. 152 (1997); In re the Estate of Killen, 188 Ariz. 569, 937 P.2d 1375 (App. 1996); Johnson v. Myers, 184 Ariz. 98, 907 P.2d 67 (1995).
• Practice Areas:  Contested and uncontested matters relating to guardianships, conservatorships, decedents' estates, trusts, and the abuse and/or exploitation of vulnerable or incapacitated adults; Appeals relating to those areas; Estate planning for modest estates; Serving as an arbitrator for probate-related disputes.

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