Scottsdale International Film Festival Welcomes Snell & Wilmer Partner Nick Wood to Advisory Board

PHOENIX - April 8, 2014 - PRLog -- Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce that Nick Wood, a zoning and land use partner in the firm’s Phoenix office, has been appointed to the advisory board for the Scottsdale International Film Festival (SIFF). Wood’s four-year term went into effect on April 1, 2014.

The Scottsdale International Film Festival is a destination event and catalyst for connecting diverse filmmakers from around the world with film lovers in a fresh, thought-provoking, and enduring community of support. The Festival runs from October 9, 2014 to October 13, 2014 at the Harkins Shea 14. SIFF advisory member duties are to promote the Festival to the community. As a community leader, Wood’s attendance and goodwill through peer-to-peer and online conversations regarding the Festival will play an important role in extending the Festival to a new audience demographic over time and promoting Arizona businesses, arts, and culture.

Over the past 27 years, Wood has established himself as a prominent zoning attorney in the Phoenix Metropolitan area. At Snell & Wilmer, Wood is the Phoenix office’s zoning and land use planning practice group leader. His reputation is based upon his ability to handle high profile and complex zoning cases that are controversial and experience a significant amount of neighborhood and/or community opposition. Wood has become a leader in the zoning and land use bar both in the Phoenix Metropolitan area and in the State of Arizona. He has been ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business^®, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use from 2004 through 2013. In addition he is an AV^® Preeminent peer review rated attorney.

About Snell & Wilmer

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