Legal Services & Lawyers

Joan Bundy PLC is a law firm based in Casa Grande, Arizona, serving the Phoenix-Tucson corridor. The firm's principal, Joan Bundy, is a licensed attorney in the state of Arizona and a 2005 graduate of the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.

Joan has extensive experience in criminal law, including both prosecution and defense work. Her practice emphasizes criminal law, family law, divorce, child custody and support, Native American law, elder law, probate, and estates and trusts.

Joan entered the legal field to further her lifelong interest in serving vulnerable and marginalized populations, including low-income people, Native Americans, children, older adults, and companion animals. She has worked for four Native American tribes: the Gila River Indian Community, the Tohono O'odham Nation, and Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona; and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She currently serves on the Executive Council of the State Bar of Arizona's Animal Law Section.

During law school, Joan was the University of Arizona's winner in the Arizona State Bar Indian Law Section Writing Competition. She also received the Arizona State Bar Public Lawyers Section Scholarship and competed at Harvard Law School as a member of a moot court team.

Born in Colorado, Joan was raised in a small town in western Iowa and has lived in Arizona since 2000. Before entering the legal field, she spent a decade in journalism and public relations.

In legal practice since 1996, Virginia Ann Jacobson has sought to provide caring and effective assistance and representation to a wide range of clients in need of legal counsel. Coming from central New York originally, after attending Cornell University and then State Univ. of New York at Buffalo School of Law, Ms. Jacobson and her husband have since made Prescott, Arizona their home. After five years as a passionate and hard working deputy public defender, Ms. Jacobson continues to provide aggressive and competent representation for criminal defendants, as well as representation in child custody, juvenile, guardianship and conservatorship, Title 36 and a full range of general civil practice areas. Ms. Jacobson has also become active as a Board Member with local non-profit Prescott People Who Care and as a member of PEAC (Prevention of Elder Abuse Coalition). Ms. Jacobson is also trained and interested in mediation, grant writing and advocacy and plans to secure her Fiduciary Certification in the future. Lastly, she is an adjunct professor at Yavapai College, teaching the Criminal Law and Procedure and the Civil Tort Litigation courses in the Paralegal program.