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Mr. Don is an Arizona civil rights attorney focused on serious constitutional litigation, including correctional healthcare failures, jail deaths, and claims arising from government misconduct. For more than three decades, he has litigated complex civil cases in state and federal courts. His practice includes Section 1983 civil rights claims, wrongful death litigation, and serious injury matters arising from systemic negligence and institutional failure. Mr. Don has tried cases in courtrooms across Arizona and has appeared in federal appellate proceedings. His work is grounded in detailed record review, expert development, and structured trial preparation.is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and has obtained multiple multimillion-dollar jury verdicts. He has served as President of the Phoenix Chapter of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association and has twice received Top Ten Civil Jury Verdict of the year recognition in Arizona. Mr. Don has served as Adjunct Faculty at Arizona State University, teaching Health Care Law. He lectures attorneys and professionals on trial presentation, psychiatric injury, and civil rights litigation.

Ms. Kimmel has worked for and been a partner in a number of law firms during her 30-year career, most recently returning to Goldberg & Osborne as a Managing Attorney of four offices in Southern Arizona where she continues to represent clients with personal injuries. Ms. Kimmel graduated from Greater Hartford Community College with an Associates Degree and University of Hartford with a B.A. in politics and government. She next graduated from the University of San Diego in 1990 with a JD. Since then, Ms. Kimmel has practiced in Connecticut and Arizona, and currently practices in Tucson, Arizona. She holds licenses in the State of Arizona, District Court of Arizona, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the White Mountain Apache Tribal Court. Ms. Kimmel is a Certified Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death by the Arizona State Bar. Her focus during the last 28 years has been in personal injury representing consumers and vulnerable people including children and elderly. A wide variety of personal injury cases are handled by Ms. Kimmel including motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, nursing negligence, and medical malpractice. Ms. Kimmel has successfully arbitrated and tried cases including complex and wrongful death cases, and has litigated appellate cases resulting in two published opinions in her clients’ favor – one in the Arizona Supreme Court and the other in Arizona Court of Appeals.

Mr. Offenhartz is a business attorney who represents clients in the finance, medical, construction, real estate and culinary industries. Mr. Offenhartz has significant experience managing all phases of litigation, including preliminary investigations, discovery, depositions, settlement negotiations, mediation, motions for summary judgment, trial and appeals. Mr. Offenhartz is a member of Madison School District’s Financial Advisory Board and a board member of the Desert States Region of Jewish National Fund. He supports the Phoenix Art Museum as a member of the Men’s Art Council, and helps others by volunteering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Arizona, Saint Mary’s Food Bank and the Wounded Warrior Project. Mr. Offenhartz earned his B.S. degree in public administration from the University of Arizona, and his master’s and J.D. degrees from Arizona State University. He is licensed to practice law in Arizona; Southern District Court, District of Arizona; and Southern Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Padish Hoebing is a skilled attorney who practices primarily in family law, criminal defense, and civil litigation. Prior to joining Padish Law Group, she served as in-house counsel at Benedictine University and Assistant General Counsel for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, Internal Affairs Division. Ms. Padish Hoebing has a wealth of experience litigating in city, state, and appellate courts. Recognized for her achievements, she was named to the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 in 2023, 2024 and 2025. She earned her J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and her B.A. in Political Science and Art History from the University of Arizona. Ms. Padish Hoebing is admitted to practice law in both Arizona and Illinois. She is actively involved in her professional community, serving as the current President and past Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Scottsdale Bar Association. Ms. Padish Hoebing is also a member of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and serves on the City of Scottsdale Personnel Board.

Mr. Torrens has practiced civil litigation in Arizona since 1996. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes and personal injury matters. He has first-chair experience in more than 30 state and federal civil jury trials and has handled over 250 arbitration hearings. He has also argued before the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Torrens earned his B.A. in Political Science from Arizona State University and his J.D. from University of Nebraska College of Law. He is an associate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and has been selected to Southwest Super Lawyers on multiple occasions. He also serves as co-chair of the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Torrens has served as a judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court since 2006 and is regularly retained as a private mediator and arbitrator.

Mr. Ardis received a Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York in 1972, and his Juris Doctor in 1975 from Boston University School of Law. In 1975, he joined the Memphis, Tennessee law firm of Canada, Russell & Turner, where he remained until January 1988, when he became a founding shareholder of Wolff Ardis, P.C. Throughout his career, Mr. Ardis has championed honor and integrity in business. In the area of Products Liability, he is committed to avoiding frivolous suits against manufacturers, but aiding injured parties, and pointing out defective products and the fraud of cover-up that often allows a defect.

Mr. Ardis has successfully pursued claims regarding motor vehicle crashworthiness, glazing, fuel systems, and occupant restraint systems. Mr. Ardis has spent a large part of his legal career dealing with fidelity bond claims, directors’ and officers’ liability policy claims, securities cases, and other matters involving allegations of breach of fiduciary duties. In addition to handling assorted complex litigation matters for client financial institutions, Mr. Ardis has effected the recovery of more than $140,000,000 in the areas of fraud and negligence, and has successfully defended a number of claims against his financial institution clients.

Mr. Ardis has developed and presented hundreds of seminars and speeches on a variety of subjects, including motor vehicle safety, fidelity bonds, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, risk management, fraud detection and investigation, internet fraud, and the use of multi-media technology in litigation. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe for groups including the American Management Association, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Bank Administration Institute, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, the Society of Financial Examiners, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, and the American Bar Association.

He has co-authored two books: Risk Management: Computers, Fraud and Insurance was published by McGraw-Hill in 1987; Bad Lies in Business was published by McGraw-Hill in 1988. From 1982 until January of 1993, Mr. Ardis served as a member of the Board of Boston University’s Morin Center for Banking Law Studies. In 1985, he was a co-recipient of the Young Lawyer’s Chair from the Boston University School of Law. From 1995 until 2000 he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the Boston University School of Law. In the summer of 1988, Mr. Ardis was named Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association, Section of Tort and Insurance Practices, Professional Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Law Committee, and subsequently served as Chair of that committee in 1991-92. Mr. Ardis also served as the Chair of The Fidelity Insurance Litigation Group of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America from 1994-1996 and has served as the head of the Motor Vehicle Glass Subgroup of The Attorneys Information Exchange Group.

Mr. Ardis has testified as an expert witness in bad faith insurance claims. He is trained as a mediator by the Federal Court and is certified as a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator. Mr. Ardis is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Memphis/Shelby County Bar Association, the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Tennessee Association for Justice (TAJ), the Southern Trial Lawyers Association (STLA), the Defense Research Institute (DRI), Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG) and the National Academy of Expert Witnesses. Mr. Ardis is currently licensed to practice law in Tennessee, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New York, Missouri, Connecticut, Mississippi and Arkansas.

Ms. Carpenter litigates car, motorcycle, pedestrian, and truck wreck cases; premises liability cases; third-party on-the-job injury cases; police brutality and misconduct civil rights cases; and mass tort cases. Ms. Carpenter is a board member for the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, and she is also a member of the Memphis Bar Association, Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association. She is licensed to practice in Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and she is also admitted in several federal U.S. District Courts throughout Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Ms. Carpenter was named the 2023 Outstanding New Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Grimmett’s main area of practice is personal injury, he is admitted to practice in courts throughout the state, as well as the Tennessee Federal Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. David has served as chairman of the Nashville Bar Association’s Juvenile Court Section and chairman of the Tennessee Bar Association Administrative Law Section. He is also a member of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association. He is board certified in child welfare law and has served as a special magistrate in severe abuse cases. Mr. Grimmett earned his J.D. degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Jones is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based trial lawyer with more than 35 years of experience trying jury cases in serious personal injury, criminal defense, and high-stakes civil litigation. He represents clients in state and federal courts throughout the Southeastern United States and is a member, and past president of the Tennessee Chapter, of the American Board of Trial Advocates, as well as only one of less than ten
members of the International Society of Barristers in Tennessee. T. Scott is certified as a Rule 31 Mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court, regularly teaches continuing legal education courses on trial strategy and litigation practice, and hosts The Weekly Law Round-Up, East Tennessee’s longest-running legal radio program.

Mr. Stapleton focuses primarily on Personal Injury law, with a commitment to helping clients navigate some of the most challenging moments of their lives. Mr. Stapleton is a native of East Tennessee and takes pride in serving the community where he was born and raised.

Mr. Dean currently serves on the Board of the Bennington County Bar Association, as a director of the Vermont Bar Foundation, as chair of the Vermont Bar Association’s Court Users Group, and as president and trustee of the Samuel Blackmer Law Library Fund. Mr. Dean draws from many areas of legal experience and clerked for the late Honorable Kathy C. Qasim in the New Jersey Superior Court’s Chancery Division. In 2017, he provided legal aid to clients throughout the Northeast as part of the South Royalton Legal Clinic. In law school, Mr. Dean served as the senior managing editor of the Vermont Law Review and as an active member of the National Moot Court Team. He has taught workshops for legal writing, civil procedure, and constitutional law. Mr. Dean’s practice areas include personal injury, appellate practice, contract disputes, debtor’s and consumer’s rights, professional licensing defense, and general civil litigation. He also serves on the board of SPEAK, Inc., a Vermont 501(c)(3) providing public speaking and debate workshops to students and incarcerated individuals.

Ms. Salsburg focuses her practice in the areas of business litigation, corporate advice and counsel, and white-collar criminal defense. She represents corporations, small businesses, and individuals in contract and business disputes, False Claims Act matters, State Ethics Commission inquiries, and government and internal investigations. Ms. Salsburg also advises closely-held businesses on corporate and employment matters. Prior to joining Laredo Smith & Kane, she was a litigator at a large international law firm, in its Florida and Boston offices. Her work at the firm focused on litigation at the federal and state levels involving breaches of contract, corporate dissolution, fraudulent transfer claims, commercial foreclosures, and patent infringement. She also handled FINRA arbitrations on behalf of broker-dealers. Ms. Salsburg’s pro bono experience includes several successful CORI-sealing petitions, petitions for asylum, an appeal from an inmate on Florida’s death row, litigation and appeal to assist a not-for-profit foundation, and invoking Hague Convention protection to return a child wrongfully removed to the United States by a parent. She was also a bar advocate for criminal matters at the Boston Municipal Court (Central).

Ms. Berman is a trial lawyer who represents clients in a wide variety of cases, including breaches of fiduciary duties, contract disputes, theft of trade secrets, commercial and consumer auto finance and creditors’ rights issues. She counsels clients during the litigation process, including advising on risk management strategies and representing clients through mediation, arbitration, trial and appeal. Ms. Berman is particularly adept at navigating the discovery phase of litigation. She will skillfully manage data collections, productions, depositions and motion practice in even the most cumbersome cases. A member of the firm’s eDiscovery Practice Group, she is well-versed in document management systems and the latest ESI issues. 

Growing up in several cities across Kansas, Ms. Lyons found her home in Wichita while attending Newman University. At Newman University, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Business Management and Marketing degree with a minor in Communications. Ms. Lyons was also a graduate of the Newman Honors Program, as well as the 2011 recipient of the Leona Ablah Award for service and leadership. Because of the preparation she received at Newman University, she earned a scholarship to the University of Kansas School of Law, where she graduated in 2014. Ms. Lyons is an active member of the Wichita and Kansas Bar Associations and was accepted into the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2025 by unanimous vote. She is licensed to practice law in Kansas and focuses her practice on family law.

Mr. Potter graduated from Washburn University School of Law in December 1994, and he practiced law in Northwest Kansas until 2013 when he moved his practice to Wichita, Kansas. His practice focuses on family law and cases dealing with divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, grandparent visitation, and post-decree modifications. During his career Mr. Potter has handled more than 30 appeals and participated in mediation in more than 800 cases. He has appeared as counsel in 20 different judicial districts in Kansas encompassing more than 75 counties, the Federal District Court for Kansas, Kansas Supreme Court and Kansas Court of Appeals, Kansas Department of Revenue, Kansas Court of Tax Appeals, Kansas Department of Labor, and the Kansas Corporation Commission. Mr. Potter is a member of the Kansas Bar Association, the Wichita Bar Association, Wichita Bar Association Family Law Committee, including serving as chair of the committee from 2020 to 2023, and the Northwest Kansas Bar Association. In 2019 he was named a Fellow with the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, as well as graduating from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, with an emphasis on family law. Mr. Potter received an “AV” attorney, peer rated for high professional achievement by Martindale-Hubbell, and he enjoys a 10.0 rating from the Avvo attorney website. He and his lovely wife Corrie make their home in Wichita, and spend time raising their four children, looking after numerous pets, reading, dancing, and trying to spend as much time outside as Kansas weather allows.

With more than a decade of litigation experience, Mr. Raine represents corporations, insurers, medical providers, transportation companies, and individuals in state and federal courts throughout Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. His practice encompasses a wide range of civil litigation, with particular concentration on trucking and transportation defense, general liability, consumer protection, serious personal injury, and wrongful death matters. At Chartwell, Mr. Raine plays a key role in the firm’s growing Kansas City trucking and transportation practice, representing motor carriers, logistics providers, and insurers in matters involving catastrophic injury, property damage, and regulatory compliance. He has served as both first and second chair in jury and bench trials, as well as arbitration hearings, and is experienced in every stage of litigation—from early case evaluation and strategy through trial and appeal. Mr. Raine earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri, graduating in the top 25% of his class, and his B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science from Truman State University. He is active in the legal community, serving as President-Elect and Vice President of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City, where he has also held leadership positions in the Young Lawyers Section. He is a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance and has authored and presented on topics related to arbitration and extra-contractual litigation.

Ms. Yarnell graduated from Kansas State University in History and a Minor in Spanish and Leadership, with a Certificate in Conflict Resolution. She received her J. D. from Washburn University School of Law, with a Certificate in Family Law. While at Washburn University School of Law, Yarnell engaged in Competitive Trial Advocacy Team, where she was a Regional Semifinalist in Denver, Colorado. Ms. Yarnell received the 2012 Missouri Bar Plan Foundation Scholarship for Ethics and Professionalism, and she is a member of the National Order of Barristers. While at Washburn, she was a Washburn Law Admissions Ambassador, Blog Author, Panelist, and Tour Guide. While in law school, she served as a Representative-at-Large and as American Bar Association Representative for the Washburn Student Bar Association, and as the Vice-President and Events Coordinator for the Washburn Law School Chapter of the Hispanic American Law Student Association.