About Us

All three partners at Buesing, Hernacki & Beckstead are former prosecutors who bring that experience and knowledge to each client's case.

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  James Buesing

  James attended the University of Central Missouri and graduated Cum Laude with a Degree in Criminal Justice in 2000. Prior to his graduation, he became interested in law while studying abroad at Teikyo University, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He put his interest in the law to work as an intern with the Missouri State Legislature.

  James graduated from The University of Missouri School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree in 2003. Later that same year James was admitted to the Arizona State Bar and began working for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office (MCAO). James worked at MCAO for five and a half years and was a senior attorney; while with MCAO James worked in the pre-trial, Juvenile Crimes, Adult Felony Divisions, and in a major crimes division, the Family Violence Bureau. During his employ with MCAO James handled hundreds of misdemeanor and felony cases. As part of the major crimes division James assisted police agencies in the valley with developing investigations, charging crimes, and conducting criminal trials for a wide array of felony offenses.

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  Dan Hernacki

  Dan graduated from The University of Arizona, Cum Laude in 2000 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. As an undergraduate, Dan worked as an intern in the White House in Washington, D.C. Between his undergraduate education and law school, Dan served as a legislative intern with the Judicial Committee of the Arizona State Legislature.

  Dan went on to attend Law School at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree in 2004. That same year Dan was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona and began working for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Dan has worked on hundreds of criminal cases including juvenile crime, theft, property crime, domestic violence, DUI, drug offenses, weapons offenses and other crimes of violence.

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  F: (602) 218-4450
  

  Jay Beckstead

  Jay is a graduate of Tuba City High School in Northern Arizona. He served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 1988-1993, and then attended college on the G.I. Bill, graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Magna Cum Laude, in 1998 with a Bachelor's Degree in Professional Aeronautics.

  Jay graduated from Vanderbilt law school in 2002, and worked as a business and patent attorney in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley from 2002-2005. In 2005 he joined the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and later worked for the Yavapai County Attorney's Office. In 2008 he returned to private practice. Jay has worked on hundreds of criminal matters including misdemeanor and felony DUI, drug crimes, aggravated assault, fraud crimes and violent crimes.