Author Archives: Terry Hernlund

“Our company has worked with Pat Nolan of Gammage & Burnham since 2001 when its predecessor was formed. The work product has always been of the highest quality, is always timely, and is fairly priced. I highly recommend her and the firm.”

– Mark Greenberg
Kenmark Deeds, L.L.C.

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“I love working with Pat Nolan of Gammage & Burnham. We don’t do any transactions without her. The service we get is amazing. We are a very small client but we never feel that way. We are responded to quickly. When we need help outside of her area of expertise, she finds an attorney at the firm to help us. It is as close to having “in house” corporate counsel as we could hope for. We are really pleased with all of our dealings with the firm.”

– Barbara Freund, CFO
INNOViON Corporation

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Success is not just a matter of having superior knowledge and experience. Success also comes from knowing how to apply that expertise from a different point of view.

When our private sector clients are involved in land use litigation, it falls into two broad categories. Usually it’s getting some sort of approval that a local government isn’t willing to give. Other times it involves resolving neighborhood opposition — either through consensual discussions or, if necessary, by crushing them.

But in recent litigation, Cameron Artigue applied his experience on behalf of the local government. A private developer in one of Arizona’s outlying counties devised a clever scheme to circumvent local zoning and subdivision laws.

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Rick Mahrle at Gammage & Burnham served as lead counsel in an arbitration governed by the AAA’s international arbitration rules. Rick represented a London-based consumer products company that had a dispute with an Arizona company that licensed its patented products to the London company to sell throughout the European Union. The dispute centered on the proper interpretation of the license agreement that had been drafted years earlier by non-lawyers. This was truly a “bet the company” type of litigation, as had the London-based company lost the arbitration, it would no longer have been allowed to sell its primary product line and undoubtedly would have closed down.

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A former Arizona public official was being sued in federal court on claims arising out of his official duties. After a devastating jury verdict was rendered against the public official, the insurance company that should have been paying the judgment and providing him with representation on appeal denied coverage, leaving the public official to pay out of his own pocket the costs of the appeal and paying off the judgment. The trial team at Gammage & Burnham, led by Rick Mahrle, filed suit against the insurance company. Following a trial, the jury found that the insurer wrongfully denied coverage. The damages and attorneys’ fees awarded exceeded $4.5 million.

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