Ahead Of The Curve Law: The Phoenix Solo Practice With a Niche in Firearms Estate Planning

Ahead Of The Curve Law Phoenix is a solo estate planning practice run by a 33-year Arizona attorney with a specialty niche in firearms trust planning.

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At a Glance

Sources: aheadofthecurvelaw.com, Avvo, Martindale, BBB, Lawyers.com. Compiled August 2026.

Origin

Ahead Of The Curve Law Phoenix: From Trial Litigation to Estate Planning, By Way of a Probate Dispute

Lisa Kurtz Keylon earned her B.S. in Speech Communications from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Arizona State University College of Law, was admitted to the Arizona Bar in 1992, and spent her early career as a Maricopa County prosecutor and personal injury trial attorney. After a hiatus to raise a family, she returned to practice in 2009 as lead counsel in a probate dispute; the experience of seeing how poor estate planning and family communication caused the underlying conflict led her to open her own estate planning practice in 2010. She later joined Mark Bregman’s downtown Phoenix practice, which merged into Dyer Bregman & Ferris, before re-opening her solo practice in May 2016 under the DBA Ahead Of The Curve Law.

Practice

A Litigation Background Applied to Preventive Estate Planning

Keylon’s practice covers estate planning, probate, and trust administration, with a client-centered approach she describes as aimed at preventing family conflict through thorough documentation and clear communication rather than resolving disputes after the fact. A genuine niche within her practice is firearms estate planning — gun trusts designed to transfer firearms, including regulated NFA items, to heirs in compliance with federal and state law, an area requiring specific technical knowledge beyond general estate planning. Her prior decade as a personal injury trial lawyer, she notes, gave her a practical understanding of contested litigation that now informs how she drafts documents to prevent future disputes.

Track Record

Awesome Attorneys did not identify an independent, itemized case-results table for this firm, which is typical for a document-focused estate planning practice rather than a litigation practice.

Past-Results Disclaimer: Every matter is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.

Client Voice

The firm carries 26 reviews on Avvo with a 5.0 aggregate rating and additional consistently positive reviews on the firm’s own site and Lawyers.com. Reviewers specifically cite Keylon’s thoroughness in walking clients through complex, blended-family estate situations and her responsiveness during time-sensitive matters like real estate closings requiring trust formation.

Community

Keylon has served in leadership roles with the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, and the Arizona Women’s Lawyers Association, and has held nonprofit leadership roles including Past President of The Junior League of Phoenix and service as a church elder — genuine civic and professional-community involvement distinct from client-facing marketing.

Recognition

Awesome Attorneys did not identify a Best Lawyers or Super Lawyers selection, an AV rating, or a State Bar of Arizona board certification for Keylon in the sources reviewed. Her practice’s strongest evidence of quality is a consistently high review record (5.0 aggregate across 26 Avvo reviews) combined with more than three decades of continuous Arizona practice, including litigation experience predating her estate planning focus.

The Arizona Legal Backdrop

What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.

Arizona’s probate process is governed by Title 14 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, with the trust code codified at A.R.S. § 14-10101 et seq. Gun trusts — a niche within Keylon’s practice — must comply with both Arizona trust law and the federal National Firearms Act’s registration and transfer requirements for regulated items, a dual-compliance area distinct from standard revocable living trusts.

The Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Keylon’s clearest differentiator is a genuine litigation background — prosecutor and personal injury trial work — applied deliberately toward conflict-preventive estate planning, combined with a specific technical niche in firearms trusts not every general estate planning attorney offers.

The honest trade-off: this is a solo practice without board certification or independent peer-review recognition (Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, AV rating); clients should weigh her strong review record and specific litigation and firearms-planning experience against firms with formal peer-review credentials.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched in August 2026 from aheadofthecurvelaw.com, Avvo, Martindale, the Better Business Bureau, and Lawyers.com. Awesome Attorneys did not identify a competing “Lisa Kurtz Keylon” practicing estate law elsewhere that could create identity confusion. Ahead Of The Curve Law did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.

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