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INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL · FIRM PROFILES · PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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The Former State Bar President Who Is Also One of Arizona’s Few Board-Certified Injury Specialists
Jennifer Rebholz spent eighteen years defending insurance companies and corporations before crossing over to represent the people on the other side of those cases. Today she is one of fewer than a hundred Arizona attorneys — and one of just nine women — certified by the State Bar as a Personal Injury and Wrongful Death specialist.
BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · PHOENIX, ARIZONA · JULY 2026
JENNIFER REBHOLZ — AT A GLANCE
| PRACTICES AT | Zwillinger Wulkan, as Senior Counsel, Phoenix |
| ENFOQUE | Plaintiff-side catastrophic injury, wrongful death, transportation cases, premises liability, and medical malpractice — approximately 90% of her current practice, with the remaining 10% spent on mediation and arbitration as a neutral |
| CERTIFICACIÓN | State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law (since 2020) — a designation held by 93 Arizona attorneys, nine of them women, as of her current bio |
| LIDERAZGO | President, State Bar of Arizona (2021–2022); recipient of the State Bar’s 2025 President’s Award for chairing the task force that modernized the Certified Specialists Program |
| VENTAJA DISTINTIVA | Eighteen years as captive and civil-defense counsel for insurance carriers (2005–2023) before moving to plaintiff’s practice — she describes her current work as informed directly by how the defense builds and resists a claim |
| TRIAL RECORD | 35+ first-chair jury trials across five Arizona counties and seven courts, 2006–2023 (per her published bio) |
Sources: jenniferrebholz.com and zwfirm.com (Zwillinger Wulkan), Justia, Martindale, State Bar of Arizona. Compiled July 2026.
ORIGEN
Eighteen Years on the Other Side
Jennifer Rebholz earned her law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law and was admitted to the Arizona bar in 2005. Her early and mid-career practice was on the defense side of civil litigation: thirteen years as captive counsel for a major insurance company (2005–2017), followed by six years as a civil defense litigator representing businesses and insurers (2017–2023), according to her published biography. In 2023 she moved to plaintiff’s practice at Zwillinger Wulkan, where she is now Senior Counsel.
Rebholz was elected by her peers to leadership of the State Bar of Arizona, culminating in a term as President from 2021 to 2022 — a position that requires broad standing across the state’s legal community, not just its plaintiffs’ bar. She currently chairs the State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization Working Group and serves on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Ethics Advisory Committee.
PRÁCTICA
A Certified Specialist Inside a Broader Civil Litigation Firm
Readers should understand the structure here clearly: Rebholz’s own docket is described as roughly 90% plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful death work, concentrated on catastrophic injury, transportation cases, and premises liability, with medical malpractice also within her stated areas of practice. The remaining 10% of her time goes to serving as a neutral in mediation and arbitration through Arizona Women Neutrals and her firm’s own ADR practice.
Her firm, Zwillinger Wulkan, is not an exclusively plaintiff-side personal injury shop — the firm’s broader practice areas listed on Martindale include business and corporate law, commercial litigation, insurance defense and personal injury litigation, labor and employment, and government and public entity liability. Prospective clients evaluating Rebholz specifically for a plaintiff’s injury or wrongful death claim should know they are retaining an individual specialist practicing inside a firm whose other departments handle a broader civil litigation docket, including work for insurers and corporations elsewhere in the firm.
HISTORIAL
El tablero de resultados
Rebholz’s published bio emphasizes trial volume and specialty certification rather than an itemized settlement table. Awesome Attorneys did not locate a published list of individual case results or dollar figures attributable specifically to her plaintiff’s practice since 2023.
| METRIC | AS REPORTED |
|---|---|
| First-chair jury trials | 35+, across 5 Arizona counties and 7 courts, 2006–2023 |
| Arbitrations | “Hundreds,” per her published bio |
| Specialty certification | Board-Certified Specialist, Personal Injury and Wrongful Death, State Bar of Arizona, since 2020 — held by fewer than 2% of Arizona personal injury attorneys |
Sources: jenniferrebholz.com, zwfirm.com. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter; every case is unique. Trial and arbitration figures span both her defense-side and plaintiff-side career; the published bio does not separate the two.
LA VOZ DEL CLIENTE
What Peers Report
Because Rebholz’s plaintiff-side practice at Zwillinger Wulkan is relatively recent, Awesome Attorneys found peer endorsements rather than a body of public client reviews. A Martindale peer review states that her “experience on both the defense and plaintiff sides gives her a well-rounded perspective and the ability to anticipate and counter opposing strategies effectively,” calling her “strategic, thorough, and always committed to achieving the best outcome for her clients.” Awesome Attorneys did not locate first-person client reviews (as opposed to attorney peer reviews) for her current plaintiff’s practice, which is consistent with a Senior Counsel role that is newer than her defense-side career.
COMUNIDAD
Más allá de la sala del tribunal
Rebholz’s leadership record is substantial and independently verifiable: State Bar of Arizona President (2021–2022), ten Arizona Attorney Magazine columns during her presidency on mentorship, civility, racial equity, and access to justice, and current service chairing the State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization Working Group. She is also active with Arizona Women Neutrals, a group of women serving as mediators, arbitrators, and special masters across the state, and sits on the Arizona Supreme Court’s Ethics Advisory Committee, which issues opinions on lawyer and paraprofessional ethics.
RECONOCIMIENTOS
Posición entre colegas
Rebholz’s core credential — the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Legal Specialization certification in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death — is exactly the kind of individually attributed, genuinely earned specialization the “specialist” label is meant to describe: it requires bar-verified experience, peer references, and a written examination, and is held by a small fraction of the state’s personal injury bar. She is also an Associate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an invitation-only trial-lawyer organization, and carries an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest tier in that system. Her election to the State Bar presidency is a further, independently verifiable mark of standing among her broader peer group, not just plaintiffs’-bar colleagues.
LA LEY
El contexto legal de Arizona, en lenguaje sencillo
Readers considering a personal injury or wrongful death claim in Arizona should understand a few ground rules. What follows is general information, not legal advice.
El reloj de dos años. Arizona’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims is generally two years from the date of injury (A.R.S. § 12-542).
Demandar al gobierno es más rápido y más estricto. 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).
La culpa se comparte, no es todo o nada. 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.
Los menores tienen más tiempo. The limitations clock is generally paused for minors and people of unsound mind until the disability ends (A.R.S. § 12-502).
EVALUACIÓN
La perspectiva de Awesome Attorneys
Rebholz’s credentials are among the most rigorously verifiable of any attorney in this series: a State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certification, an ABOTA membership earned by invitation, an AV Preeminent peer rating, and an elected State Bar presidency are all independently checkable and all sit well above the marketing-program awards this series routinely flags. Her defense-to-plaintiff career arc is also a genuine, documented eighteen-year record, not a recent rebrand.
The honest trade-off: Rebholz practices inside Zwillinger Wulkan, a firm with a broader civil litigation docket that includes insurance-defense work elsewhere in the building, and her plaintiff’s practice at the firm is comparatively new — since 2023 — so there is not yet a public settlement or verdict table specific to that period. Ten percent of her time also goes to ADR neutral work rather than direct advocacy. For a client whose priority is a board-certified specialist with genuine trial depth and elite peer standing, that trade-off is a minor one; for a client who wants a firm whose entire identity is plaintiff-only, it is worth understanding going in.
METHODOLOGY & INDEPENDENCE
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary sources: jenniferrebholz.com and zwfirm.com (Zwillinger Wulkan’s firm site). Secondary sources: Justia, Martindale-Hubbell, and the State Bar of Arizona. Neither Jennifer Rebholz nor Zwillinger Wulkan commissioned, paid for, or pre-approved 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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