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About Elizabeth McFarland

Ms. McFarland's mission is to serve Sedona and the Verde Valley with experience and integrity. Since 2002, she has provided complete client service in the areas of estate planning, business law, real estate, and appellate practice. Ms. McFarland entered private practice in 1993. From 1993 through 2001, she worked with firms in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, California, primarily focusing on complex, commercial trial and appellate work in state and federal courts across the nation. Ms. McFarland's practice included disputes about employment contracts, partnership agreements, commercial leases, joint ventures, 10b(5) securities litigation, shareholder derivative actions, compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940, fraud in many contexts, and price fixing. Ms. McFarland also gained experience before the Court of International Trade, in franchising, applying for U.S. trademarks, and merging and reorganizing banks. For several years, Ms. McFarland was lead counsel for a Maryland bank which had a Winstar claim in the United States Court of Federal Claims. Ms. McFarland's practice also included extensive brief writing experience in state and federal appellate courts across the country, including a case she briefed, argued, and won before the California Supreme Court. Ms. McFarland is a 1993 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, having previously received her undergraduate degree in political science from UCLA in 1987. While still in law school, Ms. McFarland drafted Estonia’s antitrust statute in consultation with the government of Estonia. Ms. McFarland has published articles entitled "The Schengen Agreement And Its Portent For Immigration In Europe" and "Czechoslovakia Links Economic And Immigration Policies." She enjoys traveling and the great outdoors of Northern Arizona. Courthouse Rock Cathedral Rock