Andrew F. Halaby

Phoenix Litigation Practice chair Andy Halaby has been counseling clients in law of lawyering, intellectual property, and other business-related matters for nearly 30 years.

Business and Regulation of the Practice of Law

Andy has extensive experience advising clients in the practice-of-law space. He has advised lawyers and law firms, law-adjacent businesses, investors, and others on law practice-related transactions and opportunities, including but not limited to capital investment and acquisition transactions. He has deep experience advising clients on Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure (ABS) law, including counseling multiple applicants through the ABS licensing process.

Andy also advises clients including inside counsel, outside counsel and law firms on professional responsibility and related matters, including discipline defense, lawyer disqualification, fee disputes, and lawyer liability matters. He draws on more than a decade’s experience as Ethics Chair of a national law firm headquartered in Phoenix, as well as richly varied public service in connection with the law of lawyering and its administration. This service has included

• participating, under the auspices of the Arizona Supreme Court Committee on Alternative Business Structures, in multiple working groups exploring potential improvements to Arizona’s ABS law;
• serving on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Task Force on Lawyer Ethics, Professionalism, and UPL; Independent Bar Counsel panel; and Judicial Performance Review Task Force;
• chairing the State Bar of Arizona’s Conflict Case Committee, and serving as a member of its Committee on Professional Responsibility and now its Ethics Advisory Group, where he fields ethics hotline calls from lawyers across the state; and
• teaching multiple semesters of Professional Responsibility at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.