Jason Ceola
Jason Ceola offers litigation experience in matters that include construction defects, personal injury, insurance, and State Government.
Jason spent a decade in public service at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office where he gained significant courtroom experience having appeared in thousands of hearings. He has first-chair experience in more than 10 trials and has provided second-chair assistance in multiple more as an attorney-mentor. Jason has also conducted numerous evidentiary hearings and oral arguments, including oral argument before Division 1 of the Arizona Court of Appeals. He has written multiple appellate briefs and substantive motions.
In law school, Jason earned the Governor Raul Castro Scholarship for Academic Excellence, was a member of the Moot Court Honor Board, and was an Executive Editor for the Phoenix Law Review, where he also earned Outstanding Student Article distinction.
An avid outdoorsman, Jason also volunteers for the Arizona Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers as the state board’s legislative director.
practice areas
Personal Injury Litigation
State Government Defense
professional memberships
State Bar of Arizona
Sandra Day O’Connor Inn of Court
bar and court admissions
Arizona, 2011
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2023
Virginia, 2021
publications
“How to Make Non-Bondability on a Probation Violation a Thing of the Past,” in the April 2020 edition of For the Defense
Standing up for National Forests: Using Conservation Easements to Bypass the Procedural Requirements of Bringing a Conservation Lawsuit, 4 Phoenix L. Rev. 436 (2011).
appellate decisions
Tinoco v. Tinoco, No. 1 CA-CV 22-0618 FC 2023 WL 4777189 (Ariz. App. July 27, 2023).
In re Hopkins v. Hopkins, No 1 CA-CV 21-0682 FC 2023 WL 3515678 (Ariz. App. May 18, 2023).
Walkenbach v. Hopkins, No. 1 CA-SA 21-0043 2021 WL 1578833 (Ariz. App. April 22, 2021).
education
J.D., cum laude, Phoenix School of Law, 2011
B.A, Environmental Policy, Roanoke College, 2004