PARALEGALS

ROBIN E. BARNES, CP, is a Certified Paralegal in the Tucson office. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984 with a B.S. in Range Management and from Pima Community College in 1992 with an A.A.S. as a Legal Assistant. She obtained her certification from the National Association of Legal Assistants in 1995. Since 1993, Ms. Barnes has worked in the areas of natural resources and environmental law, real estate, corporate, tax and general transactional law. Ms. Barnes has extensive experience researching federal, state, local, current and historical title and public land records to determine the status and ownership of surface, mineral and water rights. Ms. Barnes is a member of the Tucson Association of Legal Assistants.

DONNA D. BRYANT is a Paralegal in the Phoenix office. Ms. Bryant worked in the banking industry for ten years - in operations, documentation and underwriting of commercial and construction lending. She has worked for the firm since 1991, specializing in sophisticated real estate development and finance, including a large number of timeshare transactions, as well as general commercial transactions.

LINDA A. DAVIS, CP, is a Certified Paralegal in the Tucson office. She graduated cum laude from California State University Long Beach, in 1989, with a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in Finance. She received her certification from the National Association of Legal Assistants in 1995. Ms. Davis has worked for the firm since 1991 and works in all areas of litigation. She has extensive experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, collection, foreclosure and bankruptcy. Ms. Davis is an associate member of the Pima County Bar Association and a member of the Tucson Association of Legal Assistants.

SHARON A. EICHHORST, CP, is a Certified Paralegal in the Tucson office. She received her certification from the National Association of Legal Assistants in 2001. Ms. Eichhorst has worked for the firm since 1990, and has been employed in the legal field since 1984. She has extensive experience in domestic relations, probate, and securities law. Ms. Eichhorst is a member of the Tucson Association of Legal Assistants and an associate member of the Pima County Bar Association.

KARA L. GIBSON is a Paralegal in the Phoenix and Flagstaff offices. Ms. Gibson received her paralegal certificate from the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps in 1998. She graduated in 2004 summa cum laude from Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii with a B.S. in Education and minor in Business Management. Ms. Gibson has also taken courses at Arizona State University for her master's degree in Business Administration. Ms. Gibson has worked in the legal field for nearly ten years as both a military and civilian paralegal. Ms. Gibson has worked in the areas of bankruptcy, collections, commercial litigation, and foreclosure. She has also been a regular volunteer with Junior Achievement since 2004.

LYNN PERS KRCMARIC, CP, is a Certified Paralegal in the Tucson office. She has considerable experience in the areas of family law, probate, employment law and complex civil litigation. Ms. Krcmaric graduated with honors from the Pima Community College ABA certified legal assistant program in 1986. She also received a B.A. with a major in Journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Ms. Krcmaric is an associate member of the Pima County Bar Association and a member of the Pima Community College Paralegal (Legal Assistant) Program Advisory Committee. Since 1989 she has taught many classes in the Paralegal (Legal Assistant) Program and assisted in the development of classes for the program, most recently a current offering of Administrative Law. She is a Certified Legal Assistant, having been awarded that distinction by the National Association of Legal Assistants in 1987.

LINDA G. MIERNIK is a legal assistant in the Phoenix office. She received her Bachelor Degree in Psychology at Florida International University and her Juris Doctor Degree at the University of Memphis. Ms. Miernik practiced law in the state of Tennessee from 1992 until 2005 handling a wide range of legal matters. She has extensive experience in the areas bankruptcy, collections, probate administration, and civil litigation.

LINDA G. RIVERA, CLA is a Certified Legal Assistant in the Phoenix office.  Ms. Rivera received her CLA designation in 2002 following successful completion of a two-day comprehensive exam covering communications, legal research, ethics, human relations and interviewing techniques, legal terminology, judgment, analytical ability and substantive law.  Ms. Rivera has more than twenty years of legal experience and has concentrated her work in the area of probate litigation since 1998.  Through her years of experience and her studies, Linda has become fluent with guardianship, conservatorship, trust, will, exploitation and abuse matters.  Linda is active in the National Association of Legal Assistants, the Maricopa County Bar Association Paralegal Division and the Arizona Paralegal Association.

SHEILA M. SIMBRO is a Legal Assistant in the Phoenix office.  Ms. Simbro received her Associates Degree in Legal Secretarial Studies from Macomb County Community College in Michigan and completed the Legal Assistant Program at Oakland University.  Her legal experience has included work in civil litigation, including corporate, real estate, medical malpractice and probate law litigation.  Since 1996, Sheila has perfected her probate law skills related to guardianships and conservatorships, trust litigation, vulnerable adult litigation, and administration and litigation of decedents’ estates.  She has worked on litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.  With more than twenty years of legal experience, Sheila is able to identify and address the myriad of issues and challenges that arise in the context of probate law.