Practice Areas

DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C. conducts a full service, multidisciplinary practice. Our members possess the knowledge and experience to solve a wide spectrum of complex legal issues for our individual, business and governmental clients. The Firm provides clients with quality legal services at a reasonable cost by assigning attorneys and staff members based on knowledge, level of skill and experience. In addition, the Firm is able to provide combinations of attorneys and staff members with different areas of practice to solve issues that overlap more than one substantive area.

The Firm’s clients include individuals and a wide range of public and private entities, including businesses involving: automotive sales; broadcast and communications; construction; equipment sales; retail sales; restaurants; financial; health services; insurance; mining and natural resource development; ranching; real estate finance and development; recreation; interstate transportation and water service. We also represent a variety of governmental entities, including numerous Arizona public school districts and community colleges, and have provided legal services to the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, the City of Tucson and the State of Arizona.

Litigation

We are well-known for our excellent trial and appellate lawyers who practice in all areas of litigation before state and federal courts, arbitration panels, and administrative agencies throughout the state. The Firm’s resources, including state-of-the-art tools for communication, document control, research and litigation support, allow for efficient and successful representation of clients in both straightforward and complex litigation matters.

Business and Commercial

The Firm represents clients in planning and forming business entities such as profit and non-profit corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies, incorporated associations, and franchises and distributorships. We also provide advice.

DMYL represents a broad range of businesses and individuals in intellectual property matters, ranging from obtaining trademark registrations and copyright registrations to obtaining and enforcing patents, copyrights, and trademarks and trade secrets in State and Federal Courts and through administrative proceedings.

Family Law

Consistent with its philosophy of offering a full range of legal services to the community, the Firm represents clients in all aspects of family law, which includes representation in all aspects of divorce, paternity proceedings, and parenting time disputes.

Financial Services Practice Group

Our Firm has a long tradition of representing national, regional and local financial institutions in all aspects of lending and loan resolution for troubled loan arrangements. …assistance with transaction documents, including the necessary Arizona security documents. Our representation includes documentation for loans of all kinds, loan modifications and workouts, and remedies in the default context, including collection actions, trustee’s sales and judicial foreclosures, receiverships and UCC lien foreclosures.

Construction

The Firm is experienced in bond programming, financing and budgeting; site selection and acquisition; selection, negotiation and documentation of design professional services; and negotiation and documentation of construction agreements. DMYL practice has an emphasis is placed on comprehensive and well-drafted documents to attempt to avoid or minimize construction-related disputes.

Real Estate

The Firm’s experienced real estate attorneys have assisted clients all across Arizona in acquiring, selling, and leasing real property from public or private parties, obtaining commercial financing, procuring rights-of-way, and disposing of surplus property. Our real estate attorneys have negotiated with a variety of state and local governmental entities concerning the applicability of various state, county, and municipal regulations affecting real property and also have been involved in the exchange of property with governmental agencies.

Natural Resources Practice Group

The Firm represents numerous domestic and international entities in all aspects of mineral land exploration, acquisition, title examination, financing and development for natural resources projects located in the United States and Central and South America.

Labor and Employment

Our attorneys have extensive experience in employment law, having represented employers and employees in both the public and private sectors. This representation includes litigation in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies such as the Arizona Civil Rights Division, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Division of Labor.

Government and School Law

We have the personnel, experience and resources to provide quality service in virtually any matter in which an educational entity needs or desires legal representation.

Estates and Trusts

The Firm is involved in all stages of estate planning, including the preparation of wills, testamentary trusts, revocable and irrevocable trusts, long-term care qualifying trusts and insurance trusts.

Indian Law

The Firm represents clients in all aspects of Indian law, including regulatory issues, taxation, jurisdictional matters and employment issues.

Bankruptcy

The Firm represents debtors, creditors, trustees, financial institutions, judgment creditors, among others, in complex Chapter 7, 9, 11, and 13 proceedings. We frequently assist clients with the following: Pre-bankruptcy planning and counseling Pre- and post-confirmation counseling Chapter 11 reorganization and restructuring Chapter 13 reorganization and restructuring Chapter 7 liquidation and corporate dissolution Negotiation of financing […]