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Ms. Bartness is rated Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent™, the highest rating available.
Ms. Bartness concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, banking and environmental law. She is certified as a Real Estate Specialist by the Arizona State Bar Association Board of Legal Specialization and regularly represents developers and homebuilders in real estate matters and environmental matters, commercial and real estate loan transactions, loan restructures, pre-bankruptcy planning, bank regulatory and compliance matters, general corporate matters and work-outs. Ms. Bartness was General Counsel for Chase Bank of Arizona prior to joining the firm of Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C. in January of 1992.
EDUCATION
Ms. Bartness obtained her B.A. degree from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, graduating magna cum laude, in 1974. She attended graduate school at Michigan State University prior to graduating from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, cum laude in 1979.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ms. Bartness has served as a Judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court, an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association panel, and an arbitrator for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Ms. Bartness has actively served as a member of the Arizona State Bar Association Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law since 1990 and was a member of the Arizona State Bar Association Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct (Ethics) from 1983 through 1988. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the Maricopa County Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel Section. Ms. Bartness has served as a faculty member for the Arizona State Bar Convention, has served as a lecturer for the American Arbitration Association, and was an adjunct professor at Phoenix Community College. Ms. Bartness has been licensed to practice before all state and federal court in Arizona and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1979. She is a member of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, the Maricopa County Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and participates as a member of the Real Estate and Business, Banking and Corporate Law Sections of the Arizona State Bar and American Bar Association.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
After law school, Ms. Bartness was a law clerk to the Honorable Valdemar Cordova, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona from 1979 through 1981. After her judicial clerkship, Ms. Bartness was hired by what was then Arizona’s largest law firm, Evans, Kitchel and Jenckes for three years before becoming General Counsel of Meracor Development, a subsidiary of Merabank (aka Suncor). Thereafter, Ms. Bartness was appointed General Counsel of Chase Bank of Arizona for 4 years before re-entering private practice at Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C. Becky Bartness is also a mystery writer. Visit her book website, www.funnymysteries.com, for more information.
