HYMSON GOLDSTEIN PANTILIAT & LOHR - Key Persons
Mr. Goldstein is a contributing author to the State Bar's Arizona Civil Remedies text and has written articles for several legal publications. He also has served as a director and president of the Phoenix Industrial Development Authority and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Gomper's Center for Disabled Children and Adults.
David Goldstein, an experienced litigator and transactional attorney, concentrates his practice on commercial litigation and bankruptcy, antitrust, copyright, trademark, and computer law, creditors' rights, and business transactions. After four years in private practice, Mr. Goldstein joined the Arizona Attorney General's Antitrust Division, representing the State of Arizona in major antitrust class actions. Mr. Goldstein is […] Read More
Dennis Brookshire has over thirty years of legal experience representing business and entrepreneurial clients, financial institutions, and clients in the real estate and construction industry. His practice emphasizes real estate, business, construction, commercial law, tax and related litigation. He also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service. Dennis is also an Arizona licensed real estate salesperson (inactive).
Dennis is licensed in Arizona and Oregon and is a member of the Arizona and Oregon State Bar Associations, the American Bar Association and various local legal associations. Dennis is a member of the Real Estate and Business sections of the Arizona and Oregon Bar Associations. He is admitted to the Arizona and Oregon Supreme Courts, Federal District Courts of Arizona and Oregon, Federal Bankruptcy Courts for Arizona and Oregon, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (9 th Circuit), Federal Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (9 th Circuit) and United States Tax Court.
Dennis graduated cum laude with bachelor's degrees in political science and business administration from Oregon State University in 1979. He earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1982. Mr. Brookshire has served on the Oregon State Bar's Real Estate and Land Use Section executive committee and is past chair of the section's Continuing Legal Education Committee. He has also served on the Oregon State Bar Association's Local Professional Responsibility Committee.
Dennis is the former Managing Partner of a premier regional law firm in Lake Oswego, Oregon, former Chairman of the Board of Oregonians Federal Credit Union (20 year board member and over $320 Million in assets) and is former general counsel for the Institute of Certified Business Counselors. He is regarded as a real estate expert and is a frequent speaker and instructor for Oregon and Arizona real estate professionals including their ethics courses. Dennis has served on various boards and councils for financial institutions and community organizations for over twenty years. Dennis is also past Prime Minister of the Royal Rosarians, the official ambassadors for the City of Portland, Oregon.
For personal enjoyment Dennis enjoys golf, hunting and especially motorsports. Dennis is a twelve time champion amateur race car driver, three time consecutive recipient of the Mark Donohue Award (Driver of the Year - Oregon Region Porsche Club of America), former certified Porsche Club of America driving instructor and raced professional in IMSA.
Dennis Brookshire has over twenty-eight years of experience representing business and entrepreneurial clients, financial institutions, and clients in the real estate and construction industry. His practice emphasizes business, real estate, construction, commercial law, creditor rights, and related litigation. He also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service. Dennis is licensed in Arizona and Oregon and […] Read More
Eddie Pantiliat has been nominated by his peers as one of Arizona's Finest Lawyers. His practice emphasizes wrongful death, personal injury, medical malpractice, and product liability claims, as well as commercial litigation involving business disputes, corporate matters, construction and real estate, commercial torts, employment matters, estate planning and probate.
Irving Hymson developed his analytical, drafting and negotiation skills in prominent New York City firms, as chief counsel for a major financial corporation, and as a principal in Phoenix law firms. Since 1967, Mr. Hymson's broad professional experience has included commercial and residential real estate matters, business formations, business and asset acquisitions and dispositions, finance, […] Read More
Jackson Hendrix is an associate attorney with the firm, focusing his practice on civil and commercial litigation, real estate and business law.[…] Read More
Jackson Hendrix is an associate attorney with the firm, focusing his practice on civil and commercial litigation, real estate and business law.
Mr. Hendrix graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Political Science from James Madison University. He was a recipient of the Dr. Henry A. Myers Memorial Scholarship for maintaining the highest cumulative GPA among political science seniors. Mr. Hendrix earned his Juris Doctorate from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. in May 2019. He was admitted to practice law in Arizona in 2021.
John L. Lohr, Jr. is a Principal attorney with Hymson Goldstein Pantiliat & Lohr whose primary practice areas consist of Real Estate Law, Construction Law, Commercial Litigation, Trademarks and Copyrights and Bankruptcy Law-Creditors' Rights. Mr. Lohr received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Arizona University in 1995 and his Juris Doctor degree from Creighton University School of Law in 1999 where he served as the Assistant Editor for its Law Review and served on the Domestic Moot Court Board. He also served as an intern to the Honorable Timothy J. Mahoney in the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Mr. Lohr is an experienced trial attorney and litigator. In a recent complex real estate quiet title and partition case, he successfully convinced the court to order that a deed had been forged by a co-owner of the property. The court awarded his client nearly 90% of the gross proceeds of the property in the subsequent partition sale. Mr. Lohr successfully defeated a challenge by the defendant to overturn the judgment as well.
Mr. Lohr recently obtained a $1.1 million dollar judgment in a condemnation case for his client.
Mr. Lohr created a niche real estate litigation practice centering on real property tax lien foreclosures of vacant land, commercial properties and residential properties. Mr. Lohr and his tax lien foreclosure litigation team have successfully represented his clients in thousands of tax lien foreclosure cases since 2010. Mr. Lohr has also successfully represented several clients before the Court of Appeals on unique real property tax lien issues.
Mr. Lohr has successfully litigated dozens of cases removing stale mortgages and deeds of trust that should have been removed from title but were left recorded against properties after the 2008 mortgage crises.
Mr. Lohr represents many buyers and sellers of real estate in failure to disclose cases. He also represents commercial and residential landlords in eviction proceedings. Mr. Lohr represents lenders in non-judicial and judicial foreclosures and represents both lenders and borrowers in subsequent deficiency and excess proceeds lawsuits. Mr. Lohr advises property owners and lenders on their rights in foreclosures, short sales and loan modifications.
John L. Lohr, Jr. is a Principal attorney with the firm whose primary practice areas consist of Real Estate Law, Construction Law, Commercial Litigation, Trademarks and Copyrights and Bankruptcy Law-Creditors' Rights. Mr. Lohr received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Arizona University in 1995 and his Juris Doctor degree from Creighton University School of Law in […] Read More
Melissa Lekha has a wide variety of litigation and transactional experience. Ms. Lekha's practice areas include: Medical negligence litigation; health care law; wrongful death litigation; personal injury tort; vulnerable adult and Adult Protective Services Act litigation; intellectual property rights; employment law; creditor's rights; debtor's rights; real estate law; construction law; contract law; aviation law; business transactions civil and commercial litigation.
Ms. Lekha graduated with a Baccalaureate and Master's degree in Criminal Justice/Justice Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and earned her Juris Doctorate from Arizona Summit Law School. She is admitted to practice law in all state courts of Arizona and the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. She is a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.