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At a Glance
| Firm | Alcock & Associates, P.C. |
| Founded by | Nicholas M. Alcock, in 1999 (per the firm) |
| Office | 2 N. Central Ave., 26th Fl., Phoenix, AZ 85004 — the firm states it is available 24/7 |
| Focus | Multi-practice firm: personal injury, DUI/criminal defense, family law, and immigration (deportation defense, family-based immigration, asylum) |
| Combined experience | More than 150 years across the firm’s attorneys, including former Maricopa County prosecutors and Deputy Attorneys General (per the firm) |
| Recognition | Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating and Client Champion award, both 2021; three attorneys listed by Super Lawyers |
Sources: alcocklaw.com (firm website), Better Business Bureau, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, Trustpilot, Yelp. Compiled July 2026.
Origin
Built on Former Prosecutors
Nicholas M. Alcock founded the firm in 1999, and today serves as its president, according to the firm’s Better Business Bureau listing. The firm’s recruiting pitch has stayed consistent over 25-plus years: attorneys who previously worked as Maricopa County Deputy County Attorneys and Deputy Attorneys General, who the firm says “understand both sides of the case” as a result. That prosecutorial background is most directly relevant to the firm’s DUI and criminal defense docket, though the firm has since expanded well beyond it.
Practice
Four Practice Areas, One 24/7 Intake Line
Alcock & Associates is a genuinely multi-practice firm, per its own site: personal injury, DUI and criminal defense, family law, and immigration. On the immigration side — the focus of this profile’s category placement — the firm handles deportation and removal defense, cancellation of removal, asylum claims, and family-based petitions, and states it is available for consultation 24 hours a day. The firm’s own materials note that legal entry can be established even when a border officer allows a vehicle passenger to enter the country, and that cancellation of removal generally requires ten years of continuous presence, good moral character, and immediate relatives who are U.S. residents or citizens who would suffer extreme hardship — detail suggesting a genuine, substantive immigration practice rather than a bolt-on service line.
Track Record
A Firm-Wide Claim, Not an Itemized One
The firm’s Better Business Bureau profile states that its attorneys have “won 1,400+ cases in Personal Injury, DUI, Criminal Defense, Family Law and Immigration” — a combined figure across all four practice areas, not broken out by category. Awesome Attorneys was not able to identify an immigration-specific case count, asylum grant rate, or itemized result list published by the firm. Readers should treat the 1,400+ figure as the firm’s own aggregate claim rather than a verified, category-specific track record.
Client Voice
Mostly Positive, With a Genuine Negative Account
Awesome Attorneys reviewed reviews published on Trustpilot, Yelp, and the firm’s own site. Sentiment specific to the immigration practice is favorable: one client wrote that an Alcock attorney “has been with us through the whole immigration process” and praised the attorney for explaining each step; a Spanish-language review credited the firm with helping the reviewer obtain a work permit. Consistent with this publication’s policy of reporting genuine negative reviews where the record includes them, Awesome Attorneys also located a Trustpilot review stating the firm “tell[s] you all the right things to get you to sign the contract but don’t really care” — a critical account that stands alongside the largely positive record and should factor into any prospective client’s evaluation.
Community
Not Independently Documented
Awesome Attorneys did not identify specific, publicly documented community involvement, sponsorships, or pro bono programs for this firm as of the research date, beyond the founder’s direct, personal responsiveness to client reviews (Nicholas Alcock personally replies to reviews with his direct cell number, per the firm’s reviews page) — a client-service practice worth noting, though distinct from documented civic or nonprofit involvement.
Recognition
Peer-Reviewed Credentials, Not Immigration-Specific
The firm received a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating — the directory’s highest peer-review distinction — and a Martindale-Hubbell Client Champion award, both in 2021. Three of the firm’s attorneys (Michael B. Bernays, Paul I. Djurisic, and Harrison J. Viles) are listed by Super Lawyers, though Awesome Attorneys was not able to confirm whether any of these specific recognitions relate to the attorneys’ immigration practice as opposed to the firm’s other practice areas.
Arizona Legal Backdrop
Why Immigration Cases Intersect With Arizona Courts
Immigration law itself is federal, not state — removal proceedings are heard in federal immigration court, not Arizona state court, and Arizona statutes of limitations for civil claims (such as A.R.S. § 12-542) do not apply to immigration matters. But Arizona-specific criminal law regularly intersects with immigration status: certain Arizona convictions, including some drug and domestic-violence offenses, can trigger deportation consequences regardless of how minor the state-court penalty is — a dynamic sometimes called “crimmigration” that makes a firm with genuine strength in both criminal defense and immigration, like this one, potentially useful for clients facing both kinds of exposure at once. This is general information, not legal advice.
Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Broad, Experienced, and Mixed on the Record
Alcock & Associates brings real advantages to an immigration matter: 24/7 availability, a genuinely substantive deportation-defense and asylum practice (not just a marketing line), peer-reviewed credentials including an AV Preeminent rating, and staff attorneys with former-prosecutor backgrounds relevant to clients facing both criminal and immigration exposure. The honest trade-offs: the firm’s headline “1,400+ cases won” claim isn’t broken out by practice area, and Awesome Attorneys located at least one genuinely critical client account alongside the many positive ones. Prospective immigration clients should ask directly which attorneys handle immigration matters specifically and request examples of comparable cases before retaining the firm.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own website (alcocklaw.com), including its immigration and deportation-defense pages. Secondary sources: Better Business Bureau, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, Trustpilot, and Yelp. Where sources disagreed or could not be verified against the primary source, we either omitted the claim or flagged it in-line above. Alcock & Associates did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article.
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