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Ms. McFarland's mission is to serve Sedona and the Verde Valley with experience and integrity. Since 2002, she has provided complete client service in the areas of estate
planning, business law, real estate, and appellate practice.

Ms. McFarland entered private practice in 1993. From 1993 through 2001, she worked
with firms in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, California, primarily
focusing on complex, commercial trial and appellate work in state and federal courts
across the nation. Ms. McFarland's practice included disputes about employment
contracts, partnership agreements, commercial leases, joint ventures, 10b(5) securities
litigation, shareholder derivative actions, compliance with the Investment Company
Act of 1940, fraud in many contexts, and price fixing. Ms. McFarland also gained
experience before the Court of International Trade, in franchising, applying for U.S.
trademarks, and merging and reorganizing banks. For several years, Ms. McFarland
was lead counsel for a Maryland bank which had a Winstar claim in the United States
Court of Federal Claims. Ms. McFarland's practice also included extensive brief writing
experience in state and federal appellate courts across the country, including a case
she briefed, argued, and won before the California Supreme Court.

Ms. McFarland is a 1993 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, having
previously received her undergraduate degree in political science from UCLA in 1987.
While still in law school, Ms. McFarland drafted Estonia’s antitrust statute in
consultation with the government of Estonia. Ms. McFarland has published articles
entitled "The Schengen Agreement And Its Portent For Immigration In Europe" and
"Czechoslovakia Links Economic And Immigration Policies." She enjoys traveling
and the great outdoors of Northern Arizona.
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Thomas A. Gorman has over 25 years experience defending citizens in municipal, state and federal courts at the trial and appellate level. Mr. Gorman is certified by the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization as a Criminal Law Specialist and is recognized in United States District Court as Learned counsel. Mr. Gorman specializes in trials, appeals, Rule 32s and writs of habeas corpus. Since 1985 Mr. Gorman has secured not guilty verdicts or outright dismissals for clients charged with DUI, money laundering, 1st Degree Murder, capital murder, sexual assault, sale of drugs, domestic violence, assault, theft etc. Mr. Gorman has defended clients by using, among other defenses, the defense of entrapment, the battered women syndrome, mental health defenses and self-defense. Mr. Gorman has successfully argued cases to the Arizona Supreme Court and/or the Arizona Court of Appeals that have resulted in murder convictions being reversed or death sentences of condemned inmates being reversed. Mr. Gorman has also litigated writs of habeas corpus in United States District Court for the District of Arizona and before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, CA. From 1989 to the present Mr. Gorman has defended United States citizens and foreign nationals whom the state or federal government sought to execute. Mr. Gorman has represented at least one capital defendant at all times since 1989 at trial, on appeal or in state post-conviction and/or federal habeas proceedings and a clemency proceeding. Mr. Gorman is qualified under the ABA Guidelines and Rule 6.8 of the Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure to represent capital defendants in state court proceedings at trial, on direct appeal in Rule 32 post-conviction proceedings. Mr. Gorman is recognized as "Learned" counsel in U. S. District Court . As Learned counsel Mr. Gorman has represented death eligible capital defendants in both Phase I proceedings with local U.S. Attorneys Office and Phase II proceedings with Main Justice in Washington D.C.