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INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL · FIRM PROFILES · PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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A Certified Specialist Who Clerked for the Same Arizona Supreme Court Justice as His Competitors
Inside Jones Raczkowski, the Phoenix injury firm where founding partner Mack T. Jones has held a State Bar of Arizona specialist certification since the mid-1990s — one of a small circle of Arizona injury lawyers whose careers all trace back to clerking for the same late Arizona Supreme Court justice.
BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · PHOENIX, ARIZONA · JULY 2026
JONES RACZKOWSKI — AT A GLANCE
| FOUNDED BY | Mack T. Jones, J.D., University of Arizona; B.S. in Economics, Northwestern University |
| FOCUS | Plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful death, with a particular emphasis on premises liability, including slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall claims |
| OFFICE | Phoenix, Arizona |
| CERTIFICATION | Mack Jones is a State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation, a designation he has maintained since the mid-1990s |
| EXPERIENCE | More than 30 years practicing personal injury law in Arizona |
| DISTINCTIVE EDGE | A firm built specifically around slip-and-fall and premises liability litigation, per partner Mark Raczkowski’s own description of the firm’s 25-year practice focus |
Sources: the firm’s Avvo, Justia, and Lawyers of Distinction profiles; Local Lawyer Guide video profiles of both partners; Attorney at Law directory listings. Compiled July 2026.
ORIGIN
More Than Thirty Years in One Practice Area
Mack T. Jones earned a B.S. in Economics from Northwestern University before earning his J.D. from the University of Arizona. He began his legal career as a judicial clerk to Justice James Duke Cameron of the Arizona Supreme Court — the same clerkship several other certified personal injury specialists profiled by this series and elsewhere in the Arizona plaintiffs’ bar have also held, reflecting a small, well-networked circle of Arizona injury litigators who share that early-career credential. Jones has practiced law in Arizona for more than 30 years and has held his State Bar of Arizona specialist certification in injury and wrongful death litigation since the mid-1990s.
His partner, Mark Raczkowski, describes the firm — which has operated for more than 25 years under some version of its current name — as having focused specifically on slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall litigation for the majority of that time, a narrower premises-liability specialization within the broader personal injury practice.
PRACTICE
A Premises-Liability Concentration Inside a General Injury Practice
The firm’s practice areas span the standard range of Arizona personal injury matters — car accidents, dog bites, brain injury, construction accidents, motorcycle accidents, and wrongful death — but its partners’ own public statements emphasize premises liability specifically, describing the mechanics of proving a property owner’s fault in a slip-and-fall claim as a recurring focus of the practice. The firm markets itself on client education, describing a process where clients can request a scheduled telephone appointment with their assigned attorney through a paralegal, rather than relying on unstructured callback attempts.
TRACK RECORD
The Results Board
The firm does not publish an itemized settlement or verdict table. Its public materials emphasize longevity and word-of-mouth referral from clients, other lawyers, and doctors rather than specific dollar figures.
| CATEGORY | WHAT’S PUBLICLY DOCUMENTED |
|---|---|
| Case results | Not itemized by the firm; no public settlement or verdict table located |
| Practice tenure | Jones: 30+ years in Arizona personal injury practice; firm: 25+ years under its current structure |
| Peer rating | Jones holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 “Superb” Avvo rating |
Sources: Avvo, Lawyers of Distinction, Justia. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter; every case is unique.
CLIENT VOICE
What Clients Report
One reviewer, who identified themselves as a fellow attorney seeking a referral for a family member’s premises-liability claim, wrote that they had solicited recommendations from other lawyers and were repeatedly pointed toward Jones and a colleague at the firm. A separate reviewer, describing themselves as a former employee rather than a client, described being “treated with love, compassion, [and] friendship” during their time working at the firm — an internal-culture data point rather than a case outcome, but relevant to how the firm is run day to day. Mark Raczkowski was separately described by a client as providing “personal attention and honesty through the entire process,” with “no false promises, no lies.” Awesome Attorneys did not locate negative or critical reviews of the firm in its research.
COMMUNITY
Beyond the Courtroom
The firm frames its longevity itself as a community credential, stating that its business has been built primarily on word-of-mouth referrals from clients, other attorneys, and doctors over more than two decades — a form of professional trust that accumulates slowly and is harder to manufacture than a paid advertising campaign. Awesome Attorneys did not find documentation of specific charitable giving, sponsorships, or nonprofit board seats tied to either partner individually.
RECOGNITION
Peer Standing
Jones’s clearest independently meaningful credential is his State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist designation in Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation, held continuously since the mid-1990s — three decades of maintained certification. He also carries an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the system’s top tier, and has been recognized as a Southwest Super Lawyer in multiple years per his professional listings, though Awesome Attorneys could not confirm the specific consecutive years from the sources reviewed. Awesome Attorneys did not find a Best Lawyers listing for Jones or comparable independent peer-review documentation for Raczkowski specifically.
THE LAW
The Arizona Backdrop, in Plain English
Readers considering a personal injury claim in Arizona — including a slip-and-fall or premises liability matter — should understand a few ground rules. What follows is general information, not legal advice.
The two-year clock. Arizona’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims is generally two years from the date of injury (A.R.S. § 12-542).
Suing the government is faster and stricter. Claims against Arizona public entities require a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and a lawsuit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821) — relevant to slip-and-fall claims occurring on government-owned property.
Fault is shared, not all-or-nothing. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence (A.R.S. § 12-2505): an injured person’s recovery is reduced by their percentage of fault, but not eliminated even if they were mostly at fault — a rule that comes up often in premises cases where a property owner alleges the injured visitor wasn’t watching where they stepped.
Minors get more time. The limitations clock is generally paused for minors and people of unsound mind until the disability ends (A.R.S. § 12-502).
ASSESSMENT
The Awesome Attorneys View
Jones’s three-decade-long State Bar specialist certification and AV Preeminent Martindale rating are genuine, independently verifiable credentials, and the firm’s specific, sustained focus on premises-liability litigation — rather than a generic “we handle everything” pitch — is a credible, checkable specialization backed by both partners’ own descriptions of their practice history.
The honest trade-off: the firm publishes no case-results page, so prospective clients cannot see a documented settlement or verdict history, and its recognition profile leans more heavily on Jones individually than on the firm or Raczkowski, whose independent peer credentials are thinner in what’s publicly available. For a straightforward premises-liability claim, the firm’s specific track record of institutional focus is a reasonable basis for confidence even without published dollar figures.
METHODOLOGY & INDEPENDENCE
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary sources: the firm’s Avvo, Justia, and Lawyers of Distinction profiles, and video-format attorney profiles published by Local Lawyer Guide. Jones Raczkowski did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All claims are attributed to their sources; past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.
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