Moving up in Southern Arizona

Stamps as shareholder

Attorney Sesaly O. Stamps has been elected to join the shareholders of DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C.

Stamps joined the office in 2007. Her practice emphasizes litigation, employment law and education law. She also provides training to employers and schools on issues such as sexual harassment, discrimination in the workplace, and online bullying. She is a member of the Arizona Council of School Attorneys and a volunteer for Southern Arizona Legal Aid.

She previously worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Joseph W. Howard at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two.

Stamps graduated magna cum laude from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She was a recipient of the Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona award from the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education.

Rothschild is firm’s third generation shareholder

Isaac Rothschild

has been named a shareholder in Mesch Clark Rothschild.

A native of Tucson, he is the third generation of his family to be a shareholder in the firm: His grandfather Lowell Rothschild was a founding member and his father, Jonathan Rothschild, was a shareholder prior to becoming the city’s mayor.

A graduate of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of law, Isaac Rothschild had been an associate with the firm for six years, concentrating his practice in commercial bankruptcy and business reorganization.

He previously clerked for Chief Judge Raner Collins at Arizona District Court.

Isaac Rothschild serves as president of the Federal Bar Association for Southern Arizona and volunteers with Will for Heroes. He received the 2015 pro bono award of the Arizona Bar Bankruptcy Section. He is a founder of the Tucson Jazz Festival and Tucson Young Tax Professionals.

Rusing Lopez & Lizardi adds two attorneys

Attorneys Sivan R. Korn and Sarah E. Epperson have joined the Tucson law firm of Rusing Lopez & Lizardi, PLLC.

Korn, a commercial litigator, has practiced in New York, Israel and Tucson.

She holds law degrees from universities in Israel and the United States (Fordham Law School), graduating first in class in both. She began her legal career in Israel in 1999 at the Israel Ministry of Justice, and continued at the New York office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP. She has been a litigator in Tucson since 2005 when she joined Lewis Roca Rothgerber, LLP.

Korn has published extensively and serves as a judge pro tempore on the civil bench of the Pima County Superior Court.

Epperson joins Rusing Lopez & Lizardi as an associate attorney in civil and commercial litigation.

She graduated from the University of Arizona summa cum laude with a degree in political science, and went on to earn her law degree from the UA College of Law in 2013.

While in law school, she interned with the Arizona Attorney General’s Civil Rights Division, served as senior research editor of the Arizona Law Review, acted as project manager for the American Law Institute’s revision to the Concise Restatement of Torts, volunteered with the Volunteer Lawyers Program, served as an Ares Fellow in Civil Procedure, and was a member of the Arizona Law Women’s Association and Business Law Society.

Epperson spent two years as a judicial law clerk for Judge Virginia C. Kelly in Division II of the Arizona Court of Appeals.