Our Attorneys

At Cronus Law you get to work with well established, high profile lawyers for less. We have a number of attorneys, each who practice their own area of law so we can help you with various legal issues. Since our firm is lean, you get excellent legal council without breaking the bank.

Katherine Bottiglieri

Attorney

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Katherine Bottiglieri earned her Juris Doctor from the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University, where she also obtained a graduate certificate in Law, Science, and Technology. 

Katherine is experienced in all aspects of contract drafting, review, and negotiation, with a particular focus in U.S. government and defense contracting. Katherine advises and helps individuals navigate the complex nature of conducting business with the U.S government, from responding to solicitations to the contract negotiation process, and compliance with contractual requirements and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARs).

Other experience includes international contract negotiation and compliance, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and labor and employment matters. 

Katherine is a member of the State Bar of Arizona. Prior to law school, Katherine completed degrees in Advertising, B.S., Political Science B.S., and Public Relations B.S. at Northern Arizona University. 

 

Practice Areas

Conducting business with the U.S. government including, but not limited to, the following areas; 

 

– Preparation and Responding to Solicitations / Formal Requests for Quote/Requests for Proposal

– Understanding Contractual Requirements 

– Negotiation Process and Drafting of Terms and Conditions of Government Award 

– Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARs)

– Export Controls such as, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Buy American Act

 

Education

Katherine Bottiglieri earned her Juris Doctor from the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University, where she also obtained a graduate certificate in Law, Science, and Technology. 

Prior to law school, Katherine completed degrees in Advertising, B.S., Political Science B.S., and Public Relations B.S. at Northern Arizona University. 

Larry Cohen

Attorney 

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Larry J. Cohen is a certified specialist in injury and wrongful death litigation. He has focused his more than thirty one years of law practice on serious medical injury and emotional damages cases, including brain injury claims.

Mr. Cohen speaks nationally to groups of lawyers, other professionals, insurance companies, governmental entities, risk managers and other interest groups about litigation and trial practice matters, legal ethics, alternative dispute resolution, and issues in brain damage, law and medicine and law and psychology. He has received awards from the Maricopa County Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona and the State Bar of New Mexico for excellence in continuing legal education.

Mr. Cohen also received the President’s Award from the State Bar of Arizona for contributions in continuing legal education. He has for many years been listed by Southwest Super Lawyers and Arizona’s Finest Lawyers as among the best lawyers in Arizona and recently was recognized by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel as among the top one percent of lawyers in the United States.

Education

Larry Cohen received his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1985, and has been admitted to practice in Arizona since 1985. He also has a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and has participated in a post-doctoral program in clinical neuropsychology.

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Associations

Member of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where he has regularly taught courses in professional responsibility, pretrial practice and professional liability

Taught and did research at the University of Michigan School of Law and at the University of Illinois-Chicago on the adjunct faculties of the Arizona Summit School of Law, the Arizona

David Cutrer

Attorney 

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Practice Areas

Education

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Joel Fugate

Attorney I Partner

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Joel Fugate is a trial attorney and the Director of Cronus Law’s civil litigation practice. Joel has obtained successful jury verdicts for both plaintiffs and defendants and helped his clients get positive results in settlement, at bench trials, and arbitration. His cases often involve serious injuries, complex contractual disputes, and insurance coverage.

Joel is regularly chosen to handle cases involving scientific and technical matters. He has represented clients in cases concerning engineering failures, explosions, aviation, marine electrical systems, telecom/satcom networks, numerous areas of medicine, and many others.

Joel advises many businesses throughout the Valley, and he takes time to educate his clients on ways to preempt future disputes and protect their bottom line going forward. Joel focuses on solving the problem, strives to learn from each client, and ensures they stay informed and able to make decisions every step of the way.

Outside of the office, you can find Joel at concerts and other live events, or you won’t find him because he is way off in the mountains.

 

Education

Joel earned his Juris Doctor from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he also obtained a graduate certificate in Law, Science, and Technology. During law school, Joel prosecuted patents and trademarks through the United States Patent and Trademark Office and received the CALI Award for excellence in Patent Litigation.

Prior to law school, Joel completed his engineering degree at the University of Tennessee where he was elected President of the men’s rugby team.

 

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Associations

Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation – Chair of Emerging Leaders Leadership Committee

Bar Admissions

Arizona Supreme Court
U.S. District Court – District of Arizona
U.S. Court of Appeals – Ninth Circuit

Eesha Gupta

Attorney

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Eesha represents clients before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services seeking both employment and family-based adjustment of status and naturalization. She approaches each and every case with passion and tries her hardest to achieve the best possible solution for her client. Being an immigrant herself, she understands the complexity of this process and the hardship that comes along with it. It is her goal to smoothly secure the most appropriate result or other immigration benefit that best suits her client’s individual need.

She advises and helps individuals to obtain the right visas, as well as permanent residence (green card) and citizenship, and helps to plan appropriate visa strategies for transitions to unite family members, and to overcome grounds of ineligibility or other obstacles to a visa, green card, or citizenship – such as waivers of the three and ten year bars for those who have overstayed, and waivers for some types of criminal or immigration history.  

 

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Education

Eesha graduated with Masters in U.S. Laws from Washington University School of Law in May 2015. She was a recipient of Scholar in Law scholarship and was awarded CALI award of Excellence for her work in Children and Family Advocacy Legal Aid Clinic. She completed her undergraduate studies from National Law University in India in 2014.

Ivan Hannel

Attorney

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G.Ivan Hannel is a graduate of Yale University (1993) and Northwestern Law (1996). He was born in Nashville but grew up in Phoenix. Ivan’s practice areas include general civil litigation, corporate law, and family law. Ivan has worked predominantly on cases for plaintiffs seeking justice, including medical and legal malpractice, contract disputes, breaches of corporate duties, business partnership disputes, and employment issues. Ivan also has experience as corporate counsel covering all aspects of corporate operations and governance.

Ivan looks at each case through the lens that it will go to trial with the hope of resolving the issues favorably to the client beforehand. Ivan prepares clients for both the legal proceedings that are likely to occur in any litigation and the mindfulness needed to navigate emotionally difficult and highly controverted issues.  

Education

G.Ivan Hannel is a graduate of Yale University (1993) and Northwestern Law (1996)

Yash Pahwa

Attorney I Managing Partner

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Yash Pahwa is the founder and managing attorney at Cronus Law PLLC, a full-service firm. He founded the firm fresh out of law school with the belief that the traditional law firm model was dying, and there was a need for more efficient and practical legal services. By embracing change and incorporating new technologies, Yash has proven that lawyers can build a successful practice while preserving a client-first mindset.

Yash’s practice includes acting as an outside general counsel for many companies, and he represents a wide variety of small, medium, and large-scale enterprises. In addition to his commercial practice, Yash is also one of the few Arizona attorneys that represents both landlords and tenants in litigation.

Yash’s approach begins and ends with careful attention to client needs while always keeping an eye toward the most efficient and effective use of resources. He enjoys the challenge of showing how a simple solution may solve the most complex legal issues. 

Yash respects that his clients’ hard-earned money and time built their businesses, and he does everything possible to protect their investment and passion. With a straightforward and pragmatic approach to legal services, Yash works hard to secure a successful future for his clients. He is only satisfied with the results when his clients are, as well.

 

Education

Yash graduated from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University completing the Health Law certification program. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona and graduated cum laude.

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Roger Smith

Attorney

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Roger Smith has experience in all types of family law matters, including: divorce, legal separation, custody, child support, spousal maintenance, contempt, property agreements, prenuptial agreements and orders of protection. In addition, he has experience with preparation of wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills, probate matters and will contests.

Mr. Smith began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Jack L Ogg of the Arizona Court of Appeals, and then as a trial attorney for the United States Government. He served as a judge pro tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court for more than fifteen years and is a member of both the Arizona and Illinois State Bar Associations, as well as the federal district courts in Arizona, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

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Education

Mr. Smith attended DePaul University College of Law in Chicago.

 

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Shawn Threlkeld

Attorney

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Shawn Threlkeld has worked in various in-house roles with companies in the Phoenix area – companies ranging from 100 to 100,000 employees; $30 million in revenue to $13 billion – including Honeywell, Triumph Group, WDC Exploration, National EWP, and Abengoa.

Although an “In House Generalist”, Mr. Threlkeld is especially strong in contract law, having developed, edited and negotiated most types of agreements in the aerospace and construction industries. His other experiences include in-house management of insurance, bonds, risk, labor and employment, corporate resolutions, state filings and licensing.

Mr. Threlkeld is a member of the State Bar of California, a licensed U. S. Customs Broker and has advised his clients on many areas of federal law including import and export laws, ITAR, OFAC, FARs, DFARs, EPAFARs.

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Education

Shawn is a graduate of Concord Law School, having focused on commercial transactions and intellectual property, but also having received recognition for outstanding achievement in tort law.

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