Leon Silver - Phoenix Business & Real Estate Litigation Attorney

A Trial Lawyer’s Career

Leon Silver is a Phoenix business and real estate litigation attorney with more than 35 years of experience trying complex cases before judges, juries, and arbitration panels. He has represented clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs to Fortune 50 companies and organizations headquartered around the world.

Before co-founding Silver Cain PLC, Leon served as Managing Partner of the Phoenix office of one of the largest law firms in the United States, where he also chaired the firm’s nationwide Retail & Hospitality and Governmental & Administrative Law Practice Groups. That background in leading a major commercial practice — and in trying high-stakes cases across industries — is what he brings to every client engagement at SilverCain.

Awards & Recognition:

• Lawyer of the Year (Finalist) 2026
• AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
• Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
• Business Lawyer of the Year — USA, 2024 & 2025 
• Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Litigation 
• Super Lawyers — Arizona, since 2009
• Top 10 Arizona Lawyer for Commercial Litigation
• Top 100 Lawyer in Arizona

High-Profile Cases and Notable Clients

Leon has received national and international press coverage for a number of significant cases, including matters involving Maricopa County’s former Sheriff and on behalf of celebrity clients including recording artist Diana Ross, Woodstock co-Founder Arte Kornfeld, and Olympic Champion Olga Korbut. He has handled disputes involving hundreds of millions of dollars and has appeared in courts and arbitration proceedings throughout Arizona and nationally.

Case Results

• Prevented disgorgement of $90M+ in revenues by defeating a governmental agency’s regulatory theory as a matter of law
• Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a $10 billion TCPA class action
• Won defense jury verdicts in trials for Fortune 500 company facing multi-million dollar vendor claims
• Reversed a DHS/ICE administrative fine of several hundred thousand dollars on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, recovering attorney’s fees for the client
• Defeated tens of millions of dollars in fraud claims spanning Arizona and Florida litigation

Reported Cases: Frimmel Mgmt. v. United States, 897 F.3d 1045 (9th Cir. 2018); American Power Prods. v. CSK Auto, 241 Ariz. 541 (2017) & 239 Ariz. 151 (2016); Frimmel v. Sanders, 236 Ariz. 232 (App. 2014); Soling v. McCain, 224 Fed. Appx. 563 (9th Cir. 2007); Fernandez v. Takata Seat Belts, 210 Ariz. 138 (2005); and six additional published opinions.

Professional Activity: Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA Judicial Independence Project Steering Committee); Litigation Counsel of America; The Sedona Conference, Working Group 11; DRI Retail & Hospitality and Commercial Litigation Committees

Community Service: Board of Directors, Arizona Justice Project; Board & past Chairman, Planned Parenthood Arizona; Board, YWCA of Metropolitan Phoenix; Co-founder, The Liberty Project (ASU Law)

Education and Early Career

Leon earned his J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he served as a research assistant on a nationally published law journal article. He holds a B.A. in Fine Arts with minors in Education and Music from St. Lawrence University, and spent two years teaching high school before entering law school — an experience that informs his reputation as a clear, accessible communicator with judges, juries, and clients alike.