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Tim Nelson

Mr. Nelson is Arizona’s former Chief Deputy Attorney General and has over 33 years of legal experience in the public and private sectors. His service includes six years as General Counsel to former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, and as a partner both in the large Phoenix law firm of Brown & Bain (now Perkins Coie) as well as in his own firm, The Nelson Law Group, PLLC, which he founded in 2011 and has been listed in US News and World Report’s listings of America’s best law firms every year since 2015.

Mr. Nelson has substantial litigation experience in state and federal courts and has argued appeals before the Arizona Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has recovered over $800 million on behalf of public and private sector clients. He has been selected to Arizona’s Finest Lawyers and America’s Best Lawyers for each of the last seven years. Mr. Nelson has a perfect AV rating from Martindale Hubble, and has received numerous professional awards, including the US Department of Justice Excellence in Cooperative Law Enforcement Award, the President’s HIDTA Award for Most Outstanding Financial Investigative Effort, and the Arizona Attorney General’s Award of Historic Distinction.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Nelson serves as a consultant to Arizona State University in rule of law and legal reforms and has been an ASU partner in executing justice projects in Latin America for ten years. He has an extensive history delivering rule of law trainings in Mexico, both as Director of Trainings for ASU’s $4.6 million Voz de las Víctimas program from 2017-21, and as Director of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG’s) INL-funded Alliance Partnership Mexican prosecutor training program in 2011. Mr. Nelson has trained over a thousand prosecutors, judges and investigators in oral advocacy throughout Mexico, and has helped establish six legal clinics across Mexico, where crime victims can be paired with trained Mexican lawyers to be adequately represented under the new Mexican legal system. He is also a frequent speaker in Mexico and the United States on legal reforms.

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