By Mike Sunnucks, Senior Reporter | Phoenix Business Journal Published: May 4, 2016 Leo Beus and Paul Gilbert are a legal odd couple. But they’ve parlayed their differences into one of the most lucrative, old-school and behind-the-scenes law firms in the Western U.S. The pair of 72-year-olds are co-founders and managing partners of the Beus Gilbert PLLC law firm in Phoenix.…
By Trent Toone, Deseret News Published: August 19, 2015 A small group that included two LDS Church apostles and Brigham Young University administrators witnessed the unveiling of an original Greg Olsen painting at the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center on Wednesday during BYU Education Week. The painting, titled “Treasures of Knowledge,” was commissioned…
By Kurt Orzeck, Law360 Published: March 16, 2015 Ira Rennert and his company, Renco Corp., will have to pay a total of roughly $213 million for allegedly taking shareholder dividends from bankrupt Magnesium Corp. of America, sources told Law360 on Monday, after a New York federal judge added interest to a jury’s previous award to…
By The Associated Press, New York Law Journal Published: March 2, 2015 A Manhattan federal jury on Friday found that billionaire Ira Rennert plundered a now-bankrupt mining company to pay for personal luxuries, including a Hamptons mansion that’s one of the world’s largest private homes… Read Article
By Ginny Romney, Deseret News Published: February 26, 2015 If anyone knows what it’s like to be a struggling college student, it’s Leo Beus, who has come a long way from his days of looking for rides from Salt Lake City to Provo. “I would go out in a white shirt and a tie,” said…
By Andrew Scurria, Law360 Published: February 2, 2015 Lawyers for a bankruptcy trustee accusing industrial magnate Ira Rennert of plundering $118 million from Magnesium Corp. of America told a Manhattan jury on Monday that dividends extracted by the billionaire’s Renco Group Inc. left MagCorp “doomed to fail” and creditors out of the money. After seating a 10-person…
By Mike Sunnucks, The Phoenix Business Journal Published: October 3, 2014 Prominent Phoenix attorney Leo Beus has donated $10 million to Arizona State University to help build its new law school. The donation is part of a $50 million fundraising campaign by ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, which plans to move 1,000 students,…
By Erik Ketcherside, ASU News Published: September 22, 2104 When Leo and Annette Beus arrived in Arizona in 1970, he was fresh out of law school and the young couple was, he says, “starting out broke.” When it came time to donate to their most cherished causes, Arizona State University didn’t make the list. As…
By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune Published: May 2, 2012 One month from the scheduled beginning of a complex eight-week trial, Brigham Young University and drug giant Pfizer Inc. settled a lawsuit Tuesday for $450 million over whether the Utah school had been cheated out of billions of dollars in royalties for aiding in the…
By The Associated Press, The New York Times Published: May 1, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Pfizer has settled a lawsuit filed by Brigham Young University, over development of the blockbuster painkiller Celebrex, for $450 million, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in an announcement by the…
By Lois M. Collins and Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret Morning News Published: October 19, 2006 Brigham Young University and one of its professors are suing pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, claiming BYU was defrauded of profits of at least $1 billion and credit for work that led to the blockbuster drug Celebrex. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S.…
By Bill Richards & Scott Thurm, The Wall Street Journal Published: March 13, 2002 In a 1992 huddle that included top partners, Arthur Andersen LLP auditors debated the merits of an accounting approach desired by a client. If they approved, the client could keep details of losses at affiliated entities from public view. Andersen’s conclusion: The…
By Charlene Winters, Brigham Young University Alumni Magazine Published: Fall 1998 If BYU’s Alumni Association president were to open a vein, his blood would probably run blue. That’s because Paul E. Gilbert has been associated with BYU throughout his life and says he still feels inspired and thrilled every time he comes to campus. The…
By Joe Costanzo, Deseret News Published: May 3, 1996 A $30 million settlement agreement has been reached with a Chicago law firm involved in the Bonneville Pacific Corp. bankruptcy case, bringing the total recovered to date to about $115 million. The firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt has agreed to pay the $30 million by…
By John Schwartz, The Phoenix Business Journal Published: October 20, 1995
By Kim Watson, The Phoenix Business Journal Published: October 8, 1995 (Mr. Beus quoted)
By Leo Beus, Accounting Today Published: February 7, 1994 The Public Oversight Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission Practice Section of the American Institute of CPAs has made formal recommendations to the SEC and Congress in a report stating, “That the public interest requires remedial legislation” to protect “auditor’s exposure to liability.” As support,…
By James R. Kraus, American Banker Published: October 26, 1993 NEW YORK – Hoping to avoid a lengthy retrial, Britain’s Standard Chartered will next month request that the appellate court of Arizona uphold a jury verdict awarding it $338 million in compensation and $3.9 million in damages from Price Waterhouse, sources at the bank have…
By Marianne Funk, Deseret News Published: May 1, 1993 Deloitte & Touche’s bid to keep certain documents from Bonneville Pacific’s trustee is causing the accounting firm embarrassment and costing a lot of money. A federal judge chided company officials Friday for not obeying an October subpoena ordering the firm to turn over all documents relevant…
By Marianne Funk, Deseret News Published: October 2, 1992 Bonneville Pacific has hired a crack Arizona law firm to go after its own auditors, Portland General and former players in the bankrupt power company. The Arizona firm sent eight people to Salt Lake City this week to begin building a case against Deloitte & Touche,…
By Marianne Funk, Staff Writer | Deseret News Published: Oct. 2 1992 Bonneville Pacific has hired a crack Arizona law firm to go after its own auditors, Portland General and former players in the bankrupt power company. The Arizona firm sent eight people to Salt Lake City this week to begin building a case against…
By The New York Times Published: June 4, 1992 Former executives, accountants and investment bankers involved with the Miniscribe Corporation, the defunct disk drive maker, have agreed to pay $128.1 million to settle fraud charges. Greg Ruegsegger, the lawyer representing Miniscribe’s trustees, said Tuesday that he had reached an agreement in principle with more than…
By The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times Published: May 20, 1992 PHOENIX — A state jury on Tuesday told Price Waterhouse to pay $338 million to a British banking firm because the accounting firm’s audit led to a losing investment in an Arizona bank. The jury agreed with London-based Standard Chartered that Price Waterhouse bungled its…
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times Published: February 5, 1992 A jury in a civil suit found yesterday that Hambrecht & Quist, a prominent venture-capital and investment banking firm, and Coopers & Lybrand, the accounting firm, behaved fraudulently and negligently in connection with the Miniscribe Corporation, a disk drive manufacturer accused of falsifying its…
Certified Paralegal
Microsoft Office Specialist
Ms. Mennuti is an experienced paralegal handling complex commercial litigation and personal injury and wrongful death cases. Her expertise includes management of multi-district litigation as well as widespread trial experience in both state and federal courts.
Associations & Memberships
University of Phoenix – M.B.A., 1990
Arizona State University – B.S., Accounting, 1986
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
American Institute of Paralegal Studies – ABA Certification
University of Oklahoma – B.A., Education
Ms. Dobson has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts. Her expertise includes management of voluminous electronic document-intensive complex commercial litigation cases.
Arizona State University – B.A.
American Institute of Paralegal Studies – Paralegal Certificate
University of Arizona – B.S., Regional Planning and Development with Minor in Architecture, 1998
Prior to joining Beus Gilbert in 2005, Mr. Jochums was a planner for the City of Surprise for over 2 years and for Yavapai County for 5 years. He has handled zoning and development matters throughout metropolitan Phoenix area and throughout Arizona from Tucson and Bisbee in the southern part of the state and Flagstaff, Prescott, and Sedona to the north.
Mr. Jochums was a member of the City of Surprise General Plan Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2013.
Professional Affiliations:
American Institute of Certified Planners (A.I.C.P.)
Arizona State University, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture – B.S.P., Urban Planning, 1995
Mr. Newcombe has worked in both the public and private sectors of Planning for 20+ years. He has extensive involvement in the industry and community, including:
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – LL.M., 2012
University of Tirana Faculty of Law – LL.B., 2009
Mr. Sulejmani is licensed to practice law in the State of New York. He has extensive knowledge of Electronic Discovery and Data Management and Litigation technologies. In addition to his duties as a paralegal, Mr. Sulejmani serves as an e-discovery consultant and provides project management on various litigation matters, assisting in the preservation, collection and production of Electronically Stored Information (ESI). Mr. Sulejmani acts as a liaison between lawyers, paralegals, litigation support, information technology personnel and computer forensic experts supporting various projects.
Brigham Young University
University of San Diego – Lawyer’s Assistance Program
Ms. Wise is the Senior Litigation Paralegal handling complex commercial litigation in areas including: investment banking, auditing, franchise, patent, paper industry, manufacturing, airlines, real estate transactions, and hedge funds.
She was interviewed for and cited in Arizona Business Magazine, “Power of Attorney” in 2007.
Phoenix College Paralegal Studies
University of Wyoming – B.S., Finance
NALA – Advanced Certified Paralegal