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Merton E. Marks

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Merton E. Marks is Of Counsel in the Phoenix office of GRSM. His practice is focused on arbitration and litigation in the following areas:

Securities

  • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrations involving brokers, registered representatives, customer claims, expungement of prior actions
  • Former Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, Securities Division

Hospitality Industry 

  • Claims against hotels, resorts, golf courses, guest security, Dram Shop litigation

Insurance and Reinsurance

  • Coverage, premium fraud, audit and rate disputes
  • Bad faith claims
  • Agent, broker, and third party claims administrator liability
  • Arizona Insurance Department regulatory and rate proceedings
  • Arizona Industrial Commission self-insurance and regulatory proceedings, workers’ compensation, employers’ liability, and asbestos cases

Military Law and Practice

  • Judge Advocate General's Corps (XV Army Corps), Former Captain, U.S. Army
  • Counsel in more than 60 Courts Martial, administrative hearings, and appeals
  • Awarded Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service
  • Admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
  • Life Member, Military Officers Association of America
  • Member, Judge Advocates Association
  • Member, Wounded Warrior Project

Product Liability

  • Pharmaceutical drugs, medical and dental devices, and equipment, herbal supplements, cosmetics
  • Children’s products
  • Industrial machinery, chemicals, gases, plastics, asbestos
  • Firearms

  • Several hundred state and federal jury and bench trials and appeals, military trials, regulatory hearings, administrative hearings; arbitrations and mediations as counsel and neutral including Zoom and Skype proceedings.

  • Speaker at business and legal conferences in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East

Admissions

  • Arizona
  • Illinois (Inactive)
  • U.S. District Court, Arizona
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Memberships

  • American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel
  • Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, Past President
  • American Bar Association, Special Committee on Federal Asbestos Legislation, Former Chair

Education

  • J.D., Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
    – Northwestern Law Review, Contributing Author
  • Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
  • B.S., Political Science and Economics, Northwestern University College of Arts and Sciences