Tomas A. Montoya, Esq.

Associate Attorney

Tomas’s practice focuses on Business Law, Real Estate Law, Land Use Law, Municipal Law, and Special Taxing District Law involving Water Districts, Sanitary Districts, and Fire Districts.

While at the James E. Rogers College of Law, Tomas externed for Lazarus & Silvyn, P.C., the United States Navy JAG Corps, and the Howard Group.

Practice Areas

Business Law: Corporate Governance, Business Contracts, Business Formation, Corporations, Non-Profit Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, and Purchase and Sales. 

Real Estate Law: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Contracts, Zoning Law, and Land Use Law. 

Municipal Law and Special Taxing District Law:  Public Contracts, Open Meeting Law, Elections Law, Fire District Law, Water District Law, and Sanitary District Law and Domestic Wastewater Improvement District Law

Admitted to Practice

• State Bar of Arizona (2024).

Education

• University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Juris Doctor (2023).
• Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Master of Science in Global Technology and Development (2019)
• Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Business Law (2018).

Professional and Community

• Member, Young Developers Council (since 2021)
• Editor, Arizona Journal of Emerging Technologies; Author, Reinventing the Wheel by Taking it Away: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Shape Land Use Law (May 2024) (selected for re-publication in Thomson Reuters’ Zoning and Planning Law Handbook, 2025 ed.)