Debra (Deb) Winiarski has joined our Phoenix office.  Deb received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1985 and earned her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 2004.  She spent much of her career in Chicago in large law firms before entering graduate business school and relocating to Phoenix.  After achieving her M.B.A., she joined a large international law firm in Phoenix, and then went in-house with a commercial real estate and mortgage banking company.  Her areas of expertise are broad and include both litigation and transactional work.  She has sub-specialties in professional liability, intellectual property, securities, real estate, banking, insurance, and employment law.  She is licensed in California and, at this very moment, is following the procedures to renew her license in Arizona, Illinois and, ultimately, Wisconsin.  She has practiced in courts across the country.  Deb enjoys engaging in outside legal activities and has written and spoken extensively; including co-authoring a treatise on financial malfeasance and risk management, and numerous other publications and speeches on a variety of legal and business topics.  We welcome her to our team!