Meet the Lawyers of Begam & Marks
Our skilled and well-respected lawyers fight vigorously for the rights of our clients. We are proud of the quality representation we provide. Learn about the education and qualifications of our esteemed attorneys.
- Stanley J. Marks
- Steven M. Friedman
- Richard P. Traulsen
- Serena C. Montague
- David Neal Rosen
- Robert G. Begam
Stanley J. Marks
Stanley J. Marks is the senior member of Begam & Marks. He practices in all areas of personal injury litigation, though representing the victims of crimes has been his specialty in his more than 35 years of practicing law. Mr. Marks is certified by the Arizona State Bar as a Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation.
Experience and Service
Mr. Marks is very active in the community, investing his time, energy, and expertise into improving the lives of people in Arizona and across the country. He was a founder of the Arizona chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.) and served as its chair for several years. He was also the founding member of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and served as its president.
Mr. Marks is a past president of the Arizona Trial Lawyer’s Association, and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Burns and Trauma. He also sits on the national board of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, an organization that fights for the rights of all Americans. Mr. Marks regularly presides as a Pro Tem Judge in Maricopa County and serves as a Magistrate in Paradise Valley. Most recently, he has been selected to be included in the Best Lawyer’s Consumer Guide.
Steven M. Friedman
Steven M. Friedman is a member in our law firm, and is actively engaged in the personal injury trial practice throughout the State of Arizona. He has attained significant plaintiffs’ verdicts in interstate trucking litigation, medical malpractice, premises liability, automobile, and product liability cases. Mr. Friedman is admitted to practice law in Missouri and Arizona, and was admitted to the District Court for the District of Arizona and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1966, and the United States Supreme Court in 1972. He is also certified as a Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation by the State Bar of Arizona.
Steven M. Friedman attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, and earned an A.B. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1962. He earned his Juris Doctoris degree from Washington University College of Law in 1965 and then did post graduate work at New York University Graduate School of Law.
Experience and Service
Mr. Friedman has lectured extensively in the areas of trial practice and ethics for the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA), the State Bar of Arizona, and the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association. He was a member of the Arizona State Bar Committee on Rules of Professional Conduct (the Ethics Committee) for 20 years, and served as a State Supreme Court Hearing Officer in disciplinary matters for more than two decades. Mr. Friedman has also spent many years as a Judge Pro Tempore of the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Active in the community as well as the bar, in the 1960s Mr. Friedman co-founded Hacienda De Los Angeles, (now Hacienda Healthcare) a home for the profoundly handicapped. He was on the Board of Directors for several years and served as its chairperson. Mr. Friedman served a term on the Washington University Alumni Board of Governors. His community services include past and current membership of the Board of Directors of Jewish Family and Children’s services, an organization he chaired, and membership on the Board of Directors of Safe Harbor Support, Inc., an organization dedicated to providing assistance to the families of accident victims.
Richard P. Traulsen
Richard P. Traulsen has been with Begam & Marks since 1996, and is currently our managing attorney. Since coming to the firm, Mr. Traulsen has focused his practice exclusively on representing the families of people killed or severely injured by the negligent or reckless conduct of others. He has handled and tried a variety of cases, ranging from medical malpractice to dangerous road design.
Mr. Traulsen earned his undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in 1984, and then managed a local commercial refrigeration equipment company for seven years before returning to school to study law. In 1994, he graduated Cum Laude from Arizona State University College of Law. Mr. Traulsen served as the Legislative Review Editor for the Arizona State Law Journal from 1993-94, and was awarded the Order of the Coif for his scholastic and professional achievements. Following graduation, he was selected as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Noel Fidel of the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Experience and Service
Mr. Traulsen has developed special expertise in collisions involving commercial interstate trucks. He is active in the American Association for Justice, is a past national chair of the association’s Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, and a frequent lecturer at their educational programs on Interstate Trucking Litigation. Mr. Traulsen is also a member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Mr. Traulsen is also a Judge Pro Tempore of the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Mr. Traulsen volunteers with the Arizona Hemophilia Association, where he serves as the current President of the Board of Directors. He also volunteers on the Board of Directors for several other nonprofit organizations, including Safe Harbor Support, Inc., an organization devoted to providing aid to Arizona families of traffic accident victims, and Camp Swift, which offers free tutoring and summer camp programs for economically disadvantaged youth.
Serena C. Montague
Serena C. Montague specializes in representing victims of medical malpractice, defective products, and nursing home abuse. She has successfully handled both individual claims and class-action lawsuits against national and international corporations involving such products as prescription medications and implantable medical devices.
Experience and Service
Ms. Montague graduated with Honors from Hollins College in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, and received her law degree from Tulane University Law School in 1984. She is admitted to practice law in both Arizona and Maryland. Ms. Montague has served on the boards of a number of charitable foundations and is involved in several church committees concerned with exploring new forms of worship and improving efforts to help homeless families regain financial independence.
David Neal Rosen
David Neal Rosen practiced with one of our predecessor firms - Langerman, Begam, and Lewis - in the 1960s. He rejoined the firm in an of counsel capacity in 1999. Mr. Rosen is actively engaged in representing plaintiffs in personal injury, aviation law, professional negligence, and wrongful death claims.
Originally from New York City, Mr. Rosen earned his B.A. from New York University in 1955. He decided to pursue a career in law, and earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from New York University College of Law in 1958. Mr. Rosen was admitted to practice law in the state of New York in 1959. He was then admitted before the courts of the State of Arizona in 1961, and before the United States District Court, District of Arizona, in 1962. Additionally, Mr. Rosen was among the first lawyers to be qualified as a Certified Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation by the Arizona Board of Legal Specialization.
Experience and Service
Mr. David Rosen’s professional memberships and activities have included:
- Maricopa County Bar Association
- State Bar of Arizona
- American Board of Trial Advocates (where he was President of the Phoenix chapter 1985-1986)
- American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
- Arizona Trial Lawyers Association (where he was a member of the Board of Directors for many years)
- Personal Injury Trial Lawyers Association of Phoenix (Founder; President, 1983-1984)
Mr. Rosen’s community involvement and service has been significant. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Phoenix Jewish Federation and was a member of the Board of Directors of Arizona Citizens Against Gun Violence. Mr. Rosen was also the first President of the Board of Directors of the Hillel Foundation at Arizona State University.
Robert G. Begam
Robert Begam is a founding member of our Phoenix-based law firm. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale University Law School. Mr. Begam is a past president of the American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and a lifetime faculty member of that organization. He is also a co-founder of the association’s Political Action Committee, ATLA-PAC, which he chaired for seven years.
Experience and Service
In his law practice, Robert Begam has concentrated on product liability and medical malpractice litigation. Over the past 40 years, he has lectured on those and other legal subjects in 49 of the 50 United States and in numerous foreign countries. Mr. Begam also served as trial counsel for the State of Arizona in the Colorado River litigation before the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Begam is also the author of the novel, Fireball: A Courtroom Drama, published by McGraw Hill.
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