Oro Valley, AZ

Jimmy Cook

Jimmy founded the firm in 2012 and is regarded as one of the best attorneys and litigators in the United States. He has been the recipient of numerous prestigious national awards. Jimmy has served thousands of accident victims all over Arizona and several other states where he is licensed. Jimmy is licensed to practice law in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Washington, and the Federal District Court of Arizona. His clients have been awarded nearly one-hundred million-dollars in personal injury settlements. Jimmy knows how to hold insurance companies and other large corporations accountable and has devoted our entire law firm to provide accident victims the help they need. An injury attorney that is always working, not a minute goes by without Jimmy thinking about how he can get the best settlements for his clients, get their cases resolved faster, improve the quality of their medical care, and ease the burden of those who have been harmed by the negligence of others.

Frances T. Lynch

Frances Lynch is an Arizona State Bar Certified Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death, a distinguished honor awarded by the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Legal Specialization. A graduate of The University of Arizona College of Law and the nationally recognized Trial Lawyers College, Frances has tried numerous jury cases and successfully represented clients in courtrooms across Arizona. She served as lead counsel on an injury case that received the highest jury verdict in Pima County in 2021. Throughout her career, she has devoted herself to protecting the rights of individuals and to educating non-lawyers about the judicial system. Frances and her law partner, Bill Bache, founded Bache & Lynch in 2002. Her work is focused exclusively on serious personal injury and wrongful death matters.

William M. Bache

Bill began his legal career working for one of the best law firms in Indiana after graduating near the top of his law school class at Indiana University. That law firm defended insurance companies and corporations in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits. There, Bill learned about the insurance industry, and the tactics used by insurance companies and their lawyers to defeat claims for compensation by injury victims. Thereafter, Bill left to start his own firm, which would represent people, not insurance companies. He wanted to use what he had learned about the insurance industry and its tactics, to help injury victims and their families obtain justice. He has now been on the side of injury victims for over 50 years. He has lived and practiced law in Tucson since 1991.

Eugene N. Goldsmith

Eugene 'Gene' Goldsmith is a native New Yorker who has proudly called Tucson home for over 40 years. Gene received graduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona and has been an Arizona trial lawyer for almost 35 years. Gene is an AV rated lawyer who maintains a general commercial and tort litigation practice. He focuses on complex litigation and working with his clients to identify problems and find solutions. Gene's practice has included partnership and shareholder disputes, securities fraud, wrongful death, personal injury, insurance coverage, contract, defamation, commercial disparagement, real estate, wrongful discharge, discrimination, class actions, quiet title and bad faith. Gene was formerly a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable James D. Hathaway, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 2, and a shareholder and associate at the Tucson law firm of Miller, Pitt & McAnally, P.C. Gene was also a partner at McNamara Goldsmith P.C. for 25 years. Before going to law school, Gene spent four years as a teacher in Nogales, Arizona, serving as a special education resource teacher and supervising classrooms for learning disabled and developmentally disabled high school and junior high school students. Gene continues his passion for helping others through his service as a Board Member and Trustee of the Beacon Group.

Pilar Mendoza

Pilar Mendoza is a dedicated litigation lawyer committed to providing efficient and effective representation. With a focus on civil litigation, she has handled a broad range of cases including business and contract disputes, declaratory actions, sexual harassment, defamation, road design, quiet title actions, employment disputes, PACA claims, medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. Fluent in Spanish, Pilar can represent Spanish-speaking clients in Arizona who need support navigating the U.S. legal system. Her clients include individuals, businesses, non-profit organizations, and government entities. Pilar co-founded Goldsmith & Mendoza P.L.L.C. in 2019. Starting in 2025, the firm merged with Bache & Lynch P.L.L.C. to form Bache Lynch Goldsmith & Mendoza. Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Pilar holds two law degrees: one from the University of Arizona (2006) and the other from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia (2000). She also earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Arizona’s Political Science Department (2002). Pilar is admitted to practice in the State of Arizona and before the Arizona U.S. District Court. Pilar is an active member of the Arizona Association for Justice, where she has served as a Board member since 2014. She is also involved in the American Association for Justice and its minority caucus, and is a member of the Arizona Employment Lawyers Association (AZELA).

Travis Adair

Travis is one of the most accomplished personal injury attorneys in Arizona who has personally helped injured clients receive hundreds of millions of dollars in total settlements. He helps clients with all types of injuries including catastrophic injury and even wrongful death. He is responsible for numerous cases where individual victims received one million dollars or more. He has tremendous expertise and experience pursuing commercial insurance carriers and large corporations. Nobody understands insurance companies better and what it takes to stand up to them. He’s handled all types of wrecks involving semi-trucks & other large commercial vehicles, and accidents involving cars, vans & pickups, motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, bicyclists and pedestrians who have been struck by a vehicle. Travis will make sure you have the aggressive legal representation you need to obtain maximum financial compensation for your injury or wrongful death case and help you with your property damage claim. Travis has been recognized for his tremendous accomplishments as a personal injury lawyer and courtroom litigator by invitation to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40. He graduated from law school near the top of his class and has achieved more in the last decade of his legal career than most lawyers accomplish in a lifetime. Despite his tremendous accolades, Travis will take as much time as needed to personally answer your questions and provide the best legal counsel for you and your case. He makes sure his injured clients have access to excellent medical providers who will help them heal. He shows great compassion for accident victims while helping them avoid out-of-pocket expenses and obtain the most financial compensation.

Nelson Fraley

Nelson has dedicated his entire legal career to advocating for justice, especially in the area of personal injury. He began as an insurance defense attorney, gaining valuable insights into how insurers approach cases. That perspective has since fueled his effectiveness as a plaintiff’s attorney, advocating tirelessly for individuals harmed by negligence or injustice. Since entering private practice in 1998 with the firm Phillips & Webster, Nelson has handled a wide range of cases, developing deep trial experience. As a seasoned trial attorney, he has successfully litigated, mediated, and arbitrated cases resulting in millions of dollars in compensation for his clients. His approach is focused, strategic, and client-centered-working “smarter, not meaner or louder.” Inspired by legal pioneer Charles Houston-_“I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for those who could not strike back”_-Nelson views the law as both a shield and a sword for those in need of justice. With a deep understanding of legal nuance, Nelson has represented thousands of clients in cases involving serious injuries, wrongful deaths, and workplace injustice. His driving force remains the same: to defend the rights of individuals and ensure that legal violations do not go unanswered.