Click here to read an article about Dennis from his cover feature in Attorney at Law magazine. His firm has also been featured as one of Arizona’s top law firms.
Dennis I. Wilenchik is rated Martindale-Hubbell AV®-Preeminent™, the highest rating available from the most prestigious rating service. He has been rated as a “Superlawyer” by Thomson-Reuters and is an elected member of AZ’s Finest Lawyers and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He was named a Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona and voted Best Trial Lawyer in Arizona six years in a row by Arizona Foothills Magazine, Best of Arizona.
DENNIS I. WILENCHIK is the founding member of the Phoenix law firm of Wilenchik & Bartness, P.C. Prior to founding the firm in 1991, he was a senior partner/chairman of litigation at the law firms of Storey & Ross and Senior Partner at the International Law Firm of Squire, Patton Boggs in Phoenix, Arizona, and he was previously a deputy county attorney of Maricopa County, and a Judge Pro Tem, Civil Division of the Maricopa County Superior Court. He was appointed by the Governor of Arizona to the Advisory Board of the Arizona Department of Real Estate. He also has served as general counsel for the Arizona Republican Party for five years. He represented and counseled many Arizona politicians over the years including three Attorney Generals and represented the County Attorney of Arizona. He has tried hundreds of jury trials, including civil and criminal.
His practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on real estate and business complex cases and white-collar crime cases. He is a member of the State and Federal Bar Associations. He and the firm have obtained some of the largest recorded jury verdicts in Arizona through the years. Mr. Wilenchik has been a nationally certified civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy for over 35 years. Mr. Wilenchik served as President of the Maricopa County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, was a board member of the Arizona Bar Journal, Secretary of the Civil Rules Committee of the State Bar, Chairman of the State Bar Trial Practice Section, member of the Superior Court Civil Study Committee, and a member of the County Bar Judicial Evaluation Poll Committee. He has served on the County Bar Continuing Legal Education Committee, County Bar Professionalism Committee, and the County Bar Bench/Bar Committee and on various American Bar Association Litigation Committees.
Mr. Wilenchik has been a member of both the Trial Practice and Evidence Committees of the American Bar Association. He has spoken at numerous seminars on trial practice, evidence and construction defects for various professional organizations and groups, and he has contributed to national publications on trial evidence and on mold. He is a diplomate of the Hasting’s College of Law Trial Advocacy Program and the National College of Advocacy Trial Advocacy Program.
Dennis serves as a commercial arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and was appointed by Governor Babbitt to the Arizona Board of Physical Therapist Examiners, on which he served for five years, ending his term as Treasurer. He was later appointed by the Governor to the Board of Naturopathic Physicians’ Medical Examiners. He was elected as Chairman to the Town of Cave Creek Planning and Zoning Commission. Mr. Wilenchik has also served as a member of the Arizona Bar Associations Young Lawyers’ Practice Manual Committee, which established a civil practice manual for the State Bar of Arizona. He also serves on the advisory board of the Arizona Department of Real Estate.
Mr. Wilenchik earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and his J.D. degree from South Texas College of Law. He is licensed to practice before all state and federal courts in Arizona and in Texas, the State of New York, the United States Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
