Skousen & Reedy, PLC

Focus and practice areas

Skousen & Reedy, PLC is a criminal defense firm based in Mesa, Arizona. Its work sits entirely on the criminal side, and the range of matters listed on the firm's site is wide within that field. The named categories include DUI, assault, domestic violence, drug crimes, felonies, fraud, misdemeanors, sex crimes, and theft crimes.

That spread covers most of what a person facing state charges in Arizona might need. A DUI stop and a felony fraud allegation call for different defenses, and the firm signals that it takes both. In my opinion, a criminal practice that keeps its scope to one area of law, then goes broad inside it, tends to know the local courts well.

The firm handles cases in state and local courts. That includes Maricopa County Superior Court and city courts such as Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, and Phoenix. For a client, the practical value there is a lawyer who already knows the rooms and the routines of those particular benches.

Who the attorneys are

The site names two attorneys, and the firm carries both their surnames. Jack Skousen graduated from Brigham Young University and earned his law degree from California Western School of Law. Before law school, he worked in Washington, D.C. as an aide to Arizona Senator John McCain.

Skousen practices personal injury law alongside criminal defense. His injury work covers motor vehicle accidents and civil litigation claims. He is a member of the Arizona Association for Justice. That mix of criminal and civil experience is worth noting for anyone whose situation touches both, such as a car crash that also brings a charge.

Kyle Reedy earned a bachelor's degree in business management from Arizona State University and a law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He got early trial experience through Arizona State University's prosecution clinic. He later worked as a Deputy County Attorney at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, where he handled felony cases and acted as lead attorney on cases there.

The prosecutor background

Reedy's time at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office is the concrete example behind a claim the firm makes on its home page: that the team includes a former prosecutor. A defense lawyer who once charged cases has seen how the other side builds and values a file. As a reviewer, I find that kind of stated, checkable background more useful than a general promise of experience, because you can point to where it came from.

Experience the firm points to

The attorney profiles page describes more than 30 years of trial experience across a range of criminal matters. The firm frames this as trial experience, which matters in criminal defense, since not every case resolves by plea and a client may need someone ready to argue in front of a jury.

The site does not give a founding year, so the 30-year figure reads as combined time in the courtroom rather than the age of the firm. I am reporting the number as the firm states it. Between Reedy's felony trial work as a prosecutor and Skousen's criminal and civil litigation, the two lawyers bring courtroom time from different chairs.

Where it works and how to start

Skousen & Reedy is centered on Mesa and takes clients from the surrounding East Valley. The named communities are Apache Junction, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, and Tempe. That footprint lines up with the city courts the firm appears in, which keeps a client's case close to where the charge was filed.

The office is on East Baseline Road in Mesa. For a first step, the firm offers a free initial case consultation to prospective clients. A no-cost first meeting lets someone facing a charge lay out the facts and hear how the firm would approach the matter before committing to anything.

Contact runs through the firm's phone line or a form on its website. There is no listing here of published case results, awards, or client counts, so this review stays with what the two attorneys' backgrounds and the firm's stated scope actually show. For a criminal matter in the East Valley, that record is a two-lawyer team with a prosecutor's perspective on one side, injury and civil litigation on the other, and a practice built around the Maricopa County and East Valley city courts.

What a prospective client can weigh

The firm gives a clear picture of its lane. It defends criminal charges across the East Valley, it names its lawyers, and it states their schools and prior roles. That is more than many firm sites put in writing.

Someone deciding whether to call can match their own charge against the listed practice areas and see a direct fit for most common state offenses. In my opinion, the strongest signal on this site is the specificity of the two profiles: named schools, a named former employer in the county attorney's office, and a named professional association. The firm sets out its address in Mesa, its phone line, and a free first consultation as the way in.