Tyler Q. Swensen is a Partner in the firm. He has been practicing in Arizona for over 30 years and is admitted in Arizona’s state and federal courts as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. After completing a one-year clerkship for the Hon. Edward C. Voss, at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Mr. Swensen honed his litigation skills with several large and small firms as well as on his own as a sole practitioner, before joining Wilenchik & Bartness in 2003.
Throughout his career, Mr. Swensen has had extensive, consistent success both in trial and appellate practice involving disputes in the areas of commercial law, personal injury, employment law, contract, real estate, medical marijuana licensing, and insurance coverage. Since joining the firm, Mr. Swensen and founding partner, Dennis Wilenchik, have had a virtually unblemished record of success in the cases they have tried together, including multiple cases against title insurance companies, one of which resulted in the first award of punitive damages against a title company ever in Arizona. And on those rare occasions where the result in the trial court was negative, they ultimately prevailed on appeal in almost every instance and actually established new law in Arizona in the case of Equity Income Partners, LP v. Chicago Title Ins. Co., 241 Ariz. 334 (2017).
Mr. Swensen received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1986. After working as a systems engineer for several years in the Aerospace and Telecommunications fields, he returned to school and received his Juris Doctorate degree from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in 1993, where he was the senior student editor for ASU Law School’s Jurimetrics Journal and was named Outstanding Advocate of his graduating class.
Mr. Swensen is an avid gun collector and amateur gunsmith in his free time. He also speaks German and was successful in getting a wrongful death action brought against a German citizen removed from Arizona and remanded to the courts in Germany.
