Garrett Wotkyns Joins Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP as Of-Counsel

Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP (CSKD) is pleased to announce that Garrett Wotkyns has joined the firm as Of Counsel in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Mr. Wotkyns is a seasoned litigator, whose practice focuses on complex litigation, with an emphasis on matters involving financial services, ERISA and antitrust issues. In recent years, he has represented banks, insurance companies, universities, various public entities such as cities and public hospitals and retirement funds in plaintiff’s-side litigation matters. He also frequently represents consumers and investors in class actions. He joins the firm from Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, where he was a partner for four years.

Mr. Wotkyns is a frequent speaker and continuing legal education instructor concerning class action, antitrust and ERISA litigation. He has been the Chairperson of the Business Torts Section of the American Association for Justice. Mr. Wotkyns has been a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (“PIABA”) and has served on PIABA’s Fiduciary Standard Committee. In 2008 the Arizona Volunteer Lawyers Program gave him its “For Love of Justice” award in recognition of his volunteer work assisting Arizona homeowners fighting foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In 2017 the National Trial Lawyers’ Business Tort Trial Lawyers Association named him one of the top ten business trial lawyers in Arizona. Mr. Wotkyns also is a past Chairperson of the Antitrust Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona.

Mr. Wotkyns received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Rice University, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review. Following law school, Mr. Wotkyns served for a year as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Duhe, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked for five years in the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP.

With offices in Haverford Pennsylvania, Wilmington Delaware, and now Scottsdale Arizona, for over 30 years CSKD has represented institutional and individual clients in complex securities, consumer, ERISA, and other class actions, as well as shareholder derivative actions and whistleblower actions, in federal and state courts across the country.