Gust Rosenfeld partners Barbara Rodriguez-Pashkowski and Gerard (Gerry) O’Meara were named as business leaders for 2022 by Az Business Leaders. Barbara was included in the category of Law – Real Estate, and Gerry was included in the category of Law – Insurance.

Barbara Rodriguez-Pashkowski, Chair of the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Sections, concentrates her practice on environmental law, including WQARF, CERCLA, UST matters, due diligence, air quality, water quality, and RCRA. She brings to her clients years of experience including state and federal Superfund and litigation, UST compliance and appeals, air quality and water quality permitting and regulatory compliance, asbestos compliance, RCRA regulatory compliance, environmental rule writing and legislation. Barbara works with various federal, state, and local governmental entities and private companies on a broad range of environmental issues.

Gerry O’Meara practices in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense law, real estate, corporate and commercial transactions, probates, wills and trusts. He has been the sole legal representative of several local credit unions in all their commercial matters (collections, foreclosures, personnel and employment law issues). He also has represented banks and credit unions in the bankruptcy courts throughout Arizona. Gerry is the attorney for the Catholic Diocese of Tucson, handling all diocesan corporate, personnel, and real property matters.

Az Business Leaders is published by AZ Big Media annually to recognize Arizona business leaders. The leaders profiled were selected from a pool of more than 5,000 of the most innovative and best Arizona business leaders in law, health care, real estate, construction, education, banking financial services, manufacturing and technology. They represent the best and brightest Arizona business leaders in their industries.