GREGORY J. KUYKENDALL
Licensed in Arizona
Greg is licensed to practice in Arizona state courts, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple other federal trial and appellate courts. He is also approved as counsel for the International Criminal Court and Lead Counsel for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He is fluent in Spanish, passable in Italian, and almost unstoppable in English.
After graduating from the University of Colorado and later Tulane University with a Masters in Latin American Studies, Greg graduated from Northwestern University Law School. For many years, he accepted appointments as first chair on the Capital Murder Panel in Pima County, Arizona, and also federal death penalty cases where he is designated Learned Counsel. He is a former Board Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a Life Member of that organization, is A-V rated by Martindale-Hubbell, is listed in the Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, and has been designated a Southwest Super Lawyer every year since 2007.
From 2006 to 2025, he was lead death penalty lawyer for the Mexican Foreign Ministry, directing the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program. As director, he supervised three dozen of the top capital lawyers in the country in over a thousand cases and personally appeared in more than thirty state, federal and international jurisdictions defending Mexican nationals charged with capital crimes.
Most of Greg’s work involves homicides and other very serious felony offenses. He has tried and litigated to favorable conclusions hundreds of upper-end felonies and death penalty cases, focusing primarily on homicide trials, appeals and habeas corpus. In addition, he has trained lawyers in Mexico, Argentina, and throughout the U.S., and has also testified and consulted as an expert witness in death penalty cases.
Greg has also litigated multiple police misconduct and wrongful death cases, specifically representing the family members of those killed by excessive use of force by police. These cases include the 2020 in-custody death of Carlos Adrián Ingram-López caused by the Tucson Police Department, the 2021 fatal shooting of a teenage boy, Anthony Cano, by the Chandler Police department, and the 2022 murder of Dr. Thomas Meixner at the University of Arizona. More information about these cases can be found on our Media page.
Read Greg’s thoughts on the Scott Warren trial here
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Kuykendall’s full résumé here.
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here.
Peer Review Rated A-V by Martindale-Hubbell
Life Member of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Member Phi Beta Kappa