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Don KunzBurch & Cracchiolo, P.A., is pleased to announce Donald R. Kunz has joined the firm Of Counsel. Kunz practices in the areas of commercial litigation, insurance coverage and insurer bad faith. Kunz is in the 61st year of a vigorous and varied trial practice. He is one of the few lawyers in the United States who has ever tried and/or appealed an APEX case involving litigation stemming from mining laws in the western United States. Kunz is looked upon by his peers as being a lawyer who is pre-eminent in the field of legal ethics. The State Bar of Arizona has named him as a lawyer who “exemplifies professionalism.”

In addition, Kunz has served as lead counsel in both bench and jury trials in Arizona’s Trial Courts, Arizona’s Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court. He has led appeals on more than 100 cases in Trial and

Appellate Courts of the Arizona Federal Judiciary, the Supreme Court of Arizona, the Supreme Court of Idaho, and the Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Kunz is a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a founding member of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, and a Founding Fellow of the Arizona Bar Foundation.  He served two terms as a member of the Peer Review Committee of the State Bar of Arizona since its creation.

Kunz earned his J. D. from the University of Iowa and the University of Arizona in 1955 and his B.A in English Literature from the University of Iowa in 1951.

About Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A.

Founded in 1970, Burch and Cracchiolo now has 40 attorneys in its Phoenix office. The firm was founded 45 years ago by Haze Burch and Dan Cracchiolo and today the firm’s lawyers are among the most highly regarded and recognized leaders in the areas of business and corporate law, construction, estate and wealth preservation planning, family law, finance, labor and employment, litigation, personal injury and insurance defense, real estate and tax controversy litigation.

Burch & Cracchiolo, P.A. is a member of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms.