Craig Keller and Thomas Hickey join Gust Rosenfeld, PLC

(Phoenix, AZ) – Gust Rosenfeld, PLC announces that Craig Keller and Thomas Hickey joined the firm as partners on January 1, 2014. Both lawyers have extensive practices in the Tempe and Wickenburg areas.

“We are delighted to welcome Craig and Tom to Gust Rosenfeld. They are outstanding attorneys with thriving practices in areas that complement the work we do here at Gust Rosenfeld. Like all of the attorneys at Gust Rosenfeld, Craig and Tom have demonstrated a commitment to delivering the highest level of legal services to clients in the most effective and efficient manner,” said Scott Ruby, partner and member of the Gust Rosenfeld Executive Committee.

Craig Keller has been litigating business, construction, and real estate cases in Arizona for more than 33 years and has argued cases in the Ninth Circuit of Appeals, the Arizona Supreme Court, and the Arizona Court of Appeals. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Arizona and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Arizona College of Law. He was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1982.

Keller, who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, has been active in both the Tempe and Wickenburg communities. He is currently President of the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts and chairs the Student Delegate Selection Committee for Tempe Sister Cities. Previously he was President of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, among other activities.

Tom Hickey’s practice areas include estate planning, probate, estate and trust administration, and commercial and real estate disputes. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska where he was an Eagle Scout and an exchange student to Finland. Hickey graduated from Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Arizona College of Law. Hickey was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1989. He is Past President of the Kyrene Corridor Rotary Club in Tempe.

“Tom and I are honored to be asked to join this outstanding law firm that has been so important to the history of our state and has such an exceptional reputation in the legal community. We look forward to working with this extraordinary firm,” said Craig Keller.

In addition to its Tucson and Phoenix offices, Gust Rosenfeld will maintain the Wickenburg office at 579 W. Wickenburg Way in Wickenburg which opens January 6, 2014. Gust Rosenfeld is a full-service law firm established in 1921. The firm is known for the quality of its lawyers and legal advice as well as its creative insights and practical solutions in business, public and civil law. Gust Rosenfeld is experienced in alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, business and corporate law, commercial finance, education law, environmental law, franchises and franchising, insurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, natural resources, public finance, public law, real estate, taxation, and trusts and estates.