THE TOP
ATTORNEYS
IN ARIZONA &
NEW MEXICO
Marc Lieberman—not your
everyday public pension lawyer
PHO TOGRAPHY BY AR T HOLEMAN
It was a small miracle that we slowed down Kutak Rock’s Marc
Lieberman enough to talk to us the first time around; managing
to catch up with him again was even more challenging. The
Scottsdale attorney, who serves as outside counsel to four of
Arizona’s six pension plans, is either zooming around the Arizona
desert on his motorcycle, jet-setting with two of his pals around
the world on their annual action-adventure trips, or is busy with
his latest endeavor, writing. His book, Sign of the Anasazi, was
published by Emerald Book Co. a few months after our cover story
in 2009. “[It] is a mystery, really, that arises out of the ancient
people called the Anasazi, the precursor to the tribes we have [in
the Southwest] today,” he says. “The entire tribe disappeared in
1250 and no one knows where they went.” The book, slated to be
a young adult series, also boasts high-level government agents, a
child kidnapping and an alien space shuttle. Sound like Hollywood?
If things go as planned, that’s where Anasazi is heading. “I’ve
sold the movie rights to a movie company called Nelson Madison
Films,” Lieberman says, “which is very cool.” There is, of course,
his law practice, too. He’s still busy with his pension plan work in
Arizona. Those plans find themselves in similar circumstances to
many others across the country. “All of the pension plans across
the country are going through some serious discussions with their
legislators, reviewing their terms to see if they can reduce the cost
to the taxpayer,” he says, “to change the terms and make them
more favorable.”
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