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Personal Injury & Medical Malpractice Lawyer in Phoenix, AZ


Personal Injury Law Specialist in Phoenix, Arizona


With over 30 years of success and expertise, Stephen I. Leshner, PC is the best choice for your Personal Injury lawsuit or Mesothelioma claim. I can help take the complications and stress out of your personal injury such as motorcycle accident or asbestos exposure case.

Steve Leshner Selected for 2015 Arizona Super Lawyers List

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Phoenix personal injury attorney Stephen I. Leshner has been selected to the 2015 Arizona Super Lawyers list, for the eighth consecutive year. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in the practice of law. For more information about Super Lawyers, visit SuperLawyers.com.

Steve Leshner quoted in Phoenix Business Journal about Arizona asbestos law

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Arizona bill would make it harder to file asbestos lawsuits

Feb 11, 2015, 10:41am MST Updated: Feb 11, 2015, 1:43pm MST S asbestos Enlarge Photo bermau

Workers removing materials containing some asbestos

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A bill at the Arizona Legislature would make it harder to file asbestos lawsuits.

House Bill 2603 requires plaintiffs filing and courts hearing asbestos-related claims to seek out and find various industry trusts set up to deal with such lawsuits.

Critics, such as Phoenix attorney Steve Leshner, say that will just delay lawsuits brought by plaintiffs suffering from the adverse side effects of being exposed to asbestos.

“It just tends to delay things,” Leshner said. He said the bill has been tried but not approved in other states, including Texas.Asbestos is a natural mineral that was long used in various building materials. It causes mesothelioma cancer and is banned in 50 countries, according to the Washington-based Mesothelioma Center.

Leshner said asbestos trusts were set up previously by companies being sued to handle lawsuits. But many of those now don’t have any money or are dormant and plaintiffs often don’t name them in lawsuits. The Arizona bill would change that dynamic.

It would also allow for more delays for discovery in asbestos cases.

“It changes the rules for asbestos cases,” Leshner said.

The main sponsor of the bill, Arizona Rep. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, did not respond to requests for comment.

Steve Leshner to be speaker at ABOTA “A Day with the Masters” Seminar on April 17, 2015

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The Phoenix chapter of The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) is holding its annual seminar on April 17, 2015 at the Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N. Third Street, Phoenix, AZ from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.  Billed as “Tactics, Techniques and Expertise from the Best of the Best of Arizona’s Trial Lawyers”, Steve will be speaking on “Notices of Claims, Demand Letters and Mediation Memoranda from the Plaintiffs’ Perspective”.  Phoenix, Arizona plaintiffs’ personal injury, medical malpractice, and mass tort products liability attorney Stephen I. Leshner has been an Associate of ABOTA since 1999.