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At a Glance
| Firm | The Watkin Law Office, PC |
| Attorney | Clark W. Watkin, Jr. |
| Office | 14362 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Suite 1000, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (also maintains a Phoenix office) |
| Focus | Plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death, alongside commercial, real estate, and construction litigation |
| Background | Former Deputy County Attorney (Maricopa County), 33+ years as a trial lawyer, entirely on the civil side since leaving the prosecutor’s office |
| Fee structure | Contingency fee for personal injury and wrongful death matters — no fee unless there is a recovery |
Sources: watkinlaw.com (firm site), Justia, Martindale, Avvo attorney profile. Compiled August 2026.
Origin
From Prosecutor to Plaintiff’s Trial Lawyer
Clark W. Watkin, Jr. began his legal career as a Deputy County Attorney in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, then moved into private civil practice, where he has spent more than three decades — per his own listed biography, “over 33 years” as a trial lawyer — representing plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death matters. He holds both his undergraduate degree (Business Administration) and his J.D. from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Scottsdale Bar Association, the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association (the state’s plaintiff’s-bar organization, now operating as the Arizona Association for Justice) — associational memberships that, per the firm’s own listings, signal a plaintiff-side practice orientation rather than proof of it standing alone.
Practice
A Traditional Injury Docket, Plus Construction and Real Estate Litigation
The firm’s stated caseload runs through the standard catalog of Arizona personal injury claims — auto, motorcycle, bicycle, and pedestrian accidents; truck accidents; construction accidents; dog bite injuries; injuries to minors; carbon monoxide poisoning; and brain and spinal cord injury cases — handled on a contingency-fee basis. Attorney Watkin’s own listed litigation history also includes commercial, real estate, and construction litigation matters, billed separately at hourly rates per the firm’s stated fee practices, distinguishing this ancillary commercial docket from the contingency-fee injury practice that is the firm’s primary focus.
Track Record
Individual case results are not published in a comprehensive table on the firm’s own site or in third-party attorney directories reviewed for this profile. One detailed, attributed client account describes a bicycle-versus-vehicle collision near Carefree, Arizona, in which the client incurred close to $200,000 in medical expenses; the account states Attorney Watkin obtained a recovery that reimbursed those expenses and compensated the client for pain and suffering, though the specific settlement amount is not disclosed in the source.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
Client reviews on Avvo describe the firm’s handling of serious injury matters in personal terms. One reviewer, describing the bicycle-collision case above, wrote that they and their spouse worked directly with Attorney Watkin, were “extremely pleased with the legal services and the level of professionalism demonstrated,” and continued to rely on the firm for related matters years after the case resolved. No adverse or negative client reviews were located during this research; that absence should be read as a limit of the public record reviewed, not as an affirmative finding of a spotless history.
Community
Beyond his caseload, Attorney Watkin has published consumer-facing legal commentary under bylines such as “Arizona Injury Claims, Doctors’ Orders, Medical Bills, and Insurance Adjusters” and safety-focused writing tied to Arizona cycling events, including coverage of the El Tour de Tucson from a cyclist-safety perspective — public-facing legal education work distinct from his caseload.
Recognition
Attorney Watkin holds no listed board certification from the Arizona Board of Legal Specialization, and this profile does not use the word “specialist” to describe him for that reason. Martindale-Hubbell peer-review materials associated with the firm reference ethical-standards and client-service recognitions at the firm level; because Martindale’s public listing does not clearly attribute these specific award tiers to Attorney Watkin individually as opposed to the firm generally, they are noted here at the firm level only, not claimed as a personal credential.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
Arizona personal injury claims are generally subject to a two-year statute of limitations under A.R.S. § 12-542. Claims against a public entity or public employee require a Notice of Claim within 180 days under A.R.S. § 12-821.01, followed by a one-year period to file suit under A.R.S. § 12-821. Arizona follows a pure comparative negligence rule under A.R.S. § 12-2505, meaning a plaintiff found partly at fault can still recover damages, reduced by their percentage of fault. For injured minors, the limitations period is generally tolled under A.R.S. § 12-502 until the minor turns 18.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
The Watkin Law Office’s genuine differentiator is Attorney Watkin’s decades-long, single-practitioner focus on plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death work, built on a background as a former county prosecutor rather than as insurance-side defense counsel — a clean plaintiff-side lineage that some larger, multi-practice firms in this category cannot claim as simply. The honest caveat: as a solo practice (rather than a multi-attorney firm), case capacity and the range of in-house expertise are inherently narrower than at larger injury firms, and the firm’s own published track record is thin on independently verifiable, itemized settlement or verdict figures — evaluating results here relies more heavily on individual client accounts than on a documented case table.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from watkinlaw.com (firm site), Justia’s attorney directory, Martindale-Hubbell’s firm and attorney listings, and Avvo’s attorney profile and client reviews. The Watkin Law Office, PC did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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