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The Attorneys of Barron & Polk, P.L.L.C.
Members
Jay M. Polk received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar of Arizona, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Polk served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert D. Myers, who for most of the clerkship served as the presiding judge of the Probate/Mental Health Department of the Superior Court of Arizona for Maricopa County. Mr. Polk subsequently spent a year serving as a law clerk to the Honorable E. G. Noyes, Jr., who at the time was a judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals. Mr. Polk has served as a co-chair and the legislative liaison of the Mental Health and Elder Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona and as a member of the executive council of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (including serving on the Arizona chapter's Public Policy Committee), the State Bar of Arizona (including the Probate and Trust Law and the Mental Health and Law Sections), the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He is an associate editor of the 2000 Probate Code Practice Manual (4th Edition). In addition, between August 2001 and May 2003 Mr. Polk served as a member of the Legislative Committee of the Probate and Trust Law Section that considered Arizona's adoption of the Uniform Trust Code, and since March 2003 has been chairing the Probate and Trust Law Section's Non-Uniform Probate Laws Committee. A frequent speaker on probate, mental health, and elder law issues, Mr. Polk served as the president of the Board of Directors of the Council for Jews with Special Needs between January 2004 and July 2006 and is a member of the Advisory Council for Phoenix OASIS (Older Adults System and Information Services). Mr. Polk also is a certified private fiduciary, has served as a guardian ad litem for minors and incapacitated adults in probate-related matters, and serves as a judge pro tempore for the Superior Court of Arizona for Maricopa County. He also had the honor of representing the Probate and Trust Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona as an amicus curiae before the Supreme Court of Arizona in Johnson v. Myers, 184 Ariz. 98, 907 P.2d 67 (1995), which defined the scope of the probate division's subject matter jurisdiction.
Reported Cases: Denton v. Superior Ct., 190 Ariz. 152 (1997); In re the Estate of Killen, 188 Ariz. 569, 937 P.2d 1375 (App. 1996); Johnson v. Myers, 184 Ariz. 98, 907 P.2d 67 (1995).
Practice Areas: Contested and uncontested matters relating to guardianships, conservatorships, decedents' estates, trusts, and the abuse and/or exploitation of vulnerable or incapacitated adults; Appeals relating to those areas; Estate planning for modest estates; Serving as an arbitrator for probate-related disputes. Contact Mr. Polk via e-mail at jpolk@azprobatelawyers.com.
John H. Barron, III, received his B.A. and J.D.
degrees from the University of Arizona. He is admitted to the State Bar of Arizona and the
United States District Court for the District of Arizona, as well as the State Bar of
Georgia. John has served as co-chair and
secretary for the Mental Health and Elder Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona.
He is an associate editor of the 2000 Probate Code Practice Manual (4th Edition), as well as the 2004-2005
revisions currently in review. While
practicing in Tucson, Mr. Barron acted as a special deputy Pima County attorney handling
mental health litigation for Pima, Pinal, Yuma, and La Paz counties.
Subsequently, Mr. Barron served as a deputy Maricopa County attorney representing the Maricopa County
Medical Center Psychiatric Annex with respect to civil commitments and, later, representing the
Maricopa County Public Fiduciary in the administration and litigation of estate, guardianship,
conservatorship and mental health matters. Since returning to
private practice in May 1997, Mr. Barron has established himself as a litigator of matters
relating to estates, trusts, guardianships, conservatorships, exploitation and/or abuse of
vulnerable or incapacitated adults, and eligibility of continued services for persons
entitled to mental health and developmental disability related assistance. In addition to the specified
practice of law, Mr. Barron also provides seminars related to probate, guardianship, and mental health law
in-service training programs related to probate, guardianship, and mental health law for medical personnel,
and was the Instructor for the Arizona Supreme Court Fiduciary Training Program, Decision Marking module.
Reported Cases: In re Naarden Trust, 990 P.2d 1085 (1999). Practice Areas: Litigation; Guardianship and Conservatorships; Trusts and Estates; Elder Abuse; Exploitation; Mental Health Law and Developmental Disability advocacy and litigation. Contact Mr. Barron via e-mail at jbarron@azprobatelawyers.com.
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