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ARIZONA ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE
PHOENIX, AZ · EIN 860291542 · Form 990 · FY2022 · Small ($100K-$1M) · www.azaj.org
revenue
$713K
expenses
$668K
net assets
$1.6M
employees
2
volunteers
57
mission · from form 990

PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND PROMOTE A FAIR AND EFFECTIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ARIZONA FAMILIES. EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT CONSUMER AND CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES. SUPPORT THE ETHICAL EFFORTS OF LAWYERS TO HELP ANY PERSON WHO IS INJURED BY THE MISCONDUCT OR NEGLIGENCE OF OTHERS TO OBTAIN JUSTICE IN THE COURTS OF ARIZONA. UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUITIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF ARIZONA.

profile · synthesized from sources

The Arizona Association for Justice is a professional organization for trial lawyers in Arizona. It provides continuing legal education (CLE) and networking opportunities for its members, focusing on personal injury and other civil justice issues. The organization advocates for the rights of individuals in the legal system.

irs program accomplishments · form 990 part iii · fy2022

what they reported doing

Program narrative the organization filed with the IRS. Ordered by program spending.

  1. #1 primary $0
    STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS ARE MONITORED AND MEMBERS ARE ADVISED OF PENDING AND ENACTED LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE PERSONAL INJURY LEGAL PROCESS.
  2. #2 $0
    NEWSLETTERS AND PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION ADVISE MEMBERS OF COURT CASES AND LEGISLATION PERTINENT TO THE PRACTICE OF SPECIALIZED AREAS IN THE LAW.
named programs · 2 · from sources

what they call their work

Litigating Nursing Home Cases
A Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course explaining how to identify and evaluate nursing home cases, including relevant federal and state rules, and how to differentiate them from standard personal injury cases.
Tucson Learn at Lunch
A program offering 1 hour of CLE credit, available as a virtual webcast, making it accessible to members across Arizona.
activities · 6 groups

what they do

  • Legal Professional Membership & Support Services 6 activities
    • Delivering direct case strategy and trial support to members
      Offers members direct support through the "Focus for Success" program, conference calls or Zoom meetings with leading trial lawyers, and resources to address trial strategies, case screening, and litigation challenges.
    • Offering Legal Resource Access and Support
      Provides members with resources such as "Focus for Success" for trial issues and case screening, access to depositions of experts, doctors, and corporate representatives, and facilitates conference calls or Zoom meetings between members and leading trial lawyers to discuss cases. Members also receive a bi-monthly newsletter and access to webinars and exclusive materials including expert depositions, pleadings, discovery, and legal briefs.
    • Offering Legal Resource Access and Support
      Provides members with resources such as "Focus for Success" for trial issues and case screening, access to depositions of experts, doctors, and corporate representatives, and facilitates conference calls or Zoom meetings with leading trial lawyers to discuss cases. Members also receive a bi-monthly newsletter and access to webinars and exclusive materials including expert depositions, pleadings, discovery, and legal briefs.
    • Offering Legal Resources and Support for Trial Attorneys
      Provides trial attorneys with resources, professional support, and networking opportunities. This includes a free member benefit called "Focus for Success" for trial issues and case screening, access to depositions of experts, doctors, and corporate representatives, and facilitating conference calls or Zoom meetings between members and leading trial lawyers to discuss cases. Members also receive a bi-monthly newsletter and access to exclusive materials like expert depositions, pleadings, discovery, and legal briefs.
    • Offering Legal Resources and Support for Trial Attorneys
      Provides trial attorneys with resources, information, professional support, and networking, including a free member benefit called "Focus for Success" for trial issues and case screening. Members also have access to depositions of experts, doctors, and corporate representatives, and can participate in conference calls or Zoom meetings with leading trial lawyers to discuss cases.
    • Publishing and Disseminating Legal Information
      Provides members with a bi-monthly newsletter, "The Advocate," and access to webinars by national speakers. It also offers exclusive materials including over 700,000 expert depositions, pleadings, discovery, and legal briefs available for search and purchase.
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programs 5 activities
    • Providing Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
      Hosts and offers continuing legal education (CLE) courses, including 1-hour "Learn at Lunch" series in Tucson, webinars on specific legal topics like truck collisions and nursing home cases, and discounted access to courses focused on personal injury, wrongful death, and an annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference. The organization also creates day-long seminars to enhance CLE offerings.
    • Providing Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
      Offers various continuing legal education programs, including courses on litigating nursing home cases, a Tucson Learn at Lunch series, and webinars on specific legal topics like truck collisions. It also offers discounted access to CLE courses focused on personal injury and wrongful death, and an annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
    • Providing Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
      Offers continuing legal education courses, including a "Learn at Lunch" series and webinars, on topics such as litigating nursing home cases and truck collisions. It also provides discounted access to courses focused on personal injury and wrongful death, and an annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
    • Providing Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
      Offers continuing legal education courses, including a "Learn at Lunch" series and webinars, on topics such as litigating nursing home cases and truck collisions. It also provides discounted access to CLE courses focused on personal injury and wrongful death, and the annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
    • Providing continuing legal education (CLE) programs
      Offers a range of continuing legal education programs, including specialized courses on nursing home litigation, truck collision cases, and day-long seminars, delivered through webinars, Learn at Lunch events, and the annual Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
  • Membership Recruitment and Retention 3 activities
    • Managing membership recruitment and retention
      Conducts efforts to recruit and retain members through targeted outreach and engagement activities led by the Membership Committee.
    • Membership Recruitment and Retention
      Recruits and retains new and current members through its Membership Committee.
    • Membership Recruitment and Retention
      Recruits and retains new and current members through the efforts of its Membership Committee.
  • Member-Focused Newsletter Publishing 3 activities
    • Membership Recruitment and Communication
      Recruits and retains new and current members through its Membership Committee and manages the AzAJ newsletter "The Advocate," member communications, and public outreach through its Publications Committee.
    • Producing member communications and public outreach
      Produces the bi-monthly newsletter "The Advocate," manages member communications, and conducts public outreach through the Publications Committee.
    • Publications and Public Outreach
      Works on the AzAJ newsletter "The Advocate," manages member communications, and conducts public outreach through its Publications Committee.
  • Professional Association Conferences & Events 3 activities
    • Organizing the Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference
      Plans the agenda, recruits speakers and exhibitors, fundraises, and encourages attendance for the two-day Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
    • Organizing the Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference
      Plans and executes a two-day annual conference including agenda development, speaker and exhibitor recruitment, fundraising, and member outreach to support advanced trial advocacy training.
    • Organizing the Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference
      Plans the agenda, recruits speakers and exhibitors, fundraises, and encourages attendance for the two-day Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference.
  • Uncategorized 11 activities
    • Advocating Through Amicus Curiae Briefs
      Represents the position of its members in precedent-setting cases by filing Amicus Curiae briefs through its Amicus Curiae Committee.
    • Advocating in Precedent-Setting Cases
      Represents the position of its members in precedent-setting cases through the Amicus Curiae Committee.
    • Advocating in Precedent-Setting Cases
      Represents the position of its members in precedent-setting cases through the Amicus Curiae Committee.
    • Advocating in Precedent-Setting Cases
      Represents the position of its members in precedent-setting cases through the Amicus Curiae Committee.
    • Advocating through amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases
      Represents member interests in significant legal cases by submitting amicus curiae briefs through a dedicated committee.
    • Facilitating Legal Information Sharing and Collaboration
      Operates a Listserv connecting over 750 members for information sharing, advice, assistance, and case strategy related to legal practice. It also provides access to a search function covering its website, TrialSmith, and over 10 million documents and messages within its North American network of plaintiff lawyers.
    • Facilitating Legal Information Sharing and Collaboration
      Operates a Listserv connecting over 750 members for information sharing, advice, assistance, and case strategy related to legal practice. It also provides access to a search function covering its website, TrialSmith, and over 10 million documents and messages within its North American network of plaintiff lawyers.
    • Facilitating Legal Information Sharing and Collaboration
      Operates a Listserv connecting over 750 members for information sharing, advice, assistance, and case strategy related to legal practice. It also provides access to a search function covering its website, TrialSmith, and over 10 million legal documents and messages within its North American network of plaintiff lawyers.
    • Facilitating Member Networking and Information Sharing
      Operates a Listserv connecting over 750 members for information sharing, advice, assistance, and case strategy related to legal practice. It also provides access to a search function covering its website, TrialSmith, and a North American network of plaintiff lawyers with over 10 million documents and messages.
    • Facilitating access to legal research and case materials
      Provides members with searchable access to over 10 million documents and messages across a North American network of plaintiff lawyers, including expert depositions, pleadings, discovery, and legal briefs, available for download or purchase.
    • Operating member Listserv for legal information sharing
      Operates a Listserv that connects over 750 members, enabling collaboration, advice-sharing, and case strategy development among plaintiff attorneys.
financials · form 990 · fy2022
revenue
Total revenue$713K
Contributions & grants$14K2%
Program service revenue$673K94%
Investment income$-281-0%
Other revenue$27K
expenses
Total expenses$668K
Program expenses—
Admin / overhead—
Fundraising—
Salaries & benefits$300K
Grants paid out$327
Largest expense lineCompensation
balance sheet
Total assets$1.59M
Cash$673K
Investments$917K
Liabilities$0
Net assets$1.59M
Liquid reserves28.6 mo
2 years on record · 2020–2022 · YoY revenue +29.7%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2022

who runs it

paid leadership · 1
NameTitleHours/wkCompensation
JANICE L GOLDSTEIN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 40 $186K
board members · 24
  • A EVAN LLOYD JR — DIRECTOR
  • ALICIA FUNKHOUSER — DIRECTOR
  • AMY VELA — DIRECTOR
  • ARTHUR E LLOYD SR — PRESIDENT
  • AUSTIN KURTZ — DIRECTOR
  • BILLY JOE RISNER — DIRECTOR
  • BONNIE SHORE DOMBROWSKI — DIRECTOR
  • BRIAN LEONARD — SECRETARY
  • BRIAN SNYDER — PRESIDENT-ELECT
  • BRIGHAM CLUFF — DIRECTOR
  • CRISTINA PEREZ HESANO — DIRECTOR
  • DANA ROBERTS — DIRECTOR
  • DAVID A WENNER — DIRECTOR
  • DAVID L ABNEY — DIRECTOR
  • DEAN STEFFEY — DIRECTOR
  • FRANCES T LYNCH — DIRECTOR
  • GABRIEL V KORY — DIRECTOR
  • ILYA E LERMA — PAST PRESIDENT
  • JOEL B ROBBINS — DIRECTOR
  • JOHN A PHEBUS — DIRECTOR
  • JOHN J TREBON — DIRECTOR
  • JONATHAN NEGRETTI — DIRECTOR
  • JUSTIN HENRY — DIRECTOR
  • KAREN L LUGOSI — DIRECTOR
relationships · 13

who they work with

  • AZ Injury Law Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian Partner — Peter Akmajian, President Elect of AzAJ, is affiliated with AZ Injury Law Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian.
  • AzAJ Office Partner — Provides administrative support for the Listserv including technical assistance and policy enforcement.
  • Bache Lynch Goldsmith & Mendoza Partner — Co-chair organization for the Tucson Learn at Lunch CLE program.
  • Friedl Richardson Partner — Raechel Kane, Past-President of AzAJ, is affiliated with Friedl Richardson.
  • Goldberg & Osborne Partner — Co-presenter of a CLE course on litigating nursing home cases.
  • Law Office of Carl A. Piccarreta, P.C. Partner — Co-chair organization for the Tucson Learn at Lunch CLE program.
  • Miller Kory Rowe Partner — Teri Rowe, Vice President of AzAJ, is affiliated with Miller Kory Rowe.
  • Plattner Verderame PC Partner — Nick Verderame, Secretary of AzAJ, is affiliated with Plattner Verderame PC.
  • Robbins, Curtin, Millea & Showalter Partner — Matt Millea, Treasurer of AzAJ, is affiliated with Robbins, Curtin, Millea & Showalter.
  • Shore Dombrowski Law Partner — Co-presenter of a CLE course on litigating nursing home cases.
  • The Leonard Law Firm, P.L.L.C. Partner — Brian Leonard, President of AzAJ, is affiliated with The Leonard Law Firm, P.L.L.C.
  • TrialSmith Partner — Offers members the option to upgrade to TrialSmith for full access to expert depositions and other data.
  • TrialSmith Partner — Provides access to TrialSmith through its search function