PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 7, 2026--
Attorney Jeremy Poryes has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as Of Counsel in the Real Estate group in Phoenix, the law firm announced today.
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Jeremy focuses on complex real estate acquisition, disposition, leasing, and financing transactions. His practice includes representing REITs and other real estate investors in the acquisition and disposition of retail properties (everything from single-site transactions to large property portfolios) advising buyers and sellers of significant tracts of vacant and semi-developed land, and drafting and negotiating master declarations, reciprocal easement agreements, and other development and infrastructure arrangements. He also has extensive experience representing landlords and tenants in office, industrial, and retail leasing and subleasing matters, with an emphasis on ground lease transactions for new tenants in existing and developing retail shopping centers.
In addition to his real estate work, Jeremy brings substantial finance and banking transactional experience. He represents lenders and borrowers in documenting and closing bridge loans, construction loans, revolving lines of credit and other commercial financing transactions for residential, retail, office, industrial and mixed-use developments.
Jeremy received his J.D. from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and his B.A. from the University of California, Davis.
“The Phoenix market continues to lead the country in real estate and development activity,” said Scott Jenkins, Dorsey’s Phoenix office head. “Jeremy’s background across real estate, finance, and banking transactions strengthens our platform and reflects our continued investment in building a premier, business-focused real estate practice in Phoenix. We are excited to welcome him to the firm.”
“I’m excited to join Dorsey’s Real Estate team in Phoenix,” said Jeremy Poryes. “The firm’s collaborative, entrepreneurial culture aligns well with my practice, and I look forward to contributing my real estate and finance experience to support our clients’ most important transactions.”
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Clients have relied on Dorsey as a valued business partner since 1912. With locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, Dorsey provides results-oriented, grounded counsel for its clients' legal and business needs. Dorsey represents a number of the world's most successful companies from a wide range of industries, including banking & financial institutions; development & infrastructure; energy & natural resources; food, beverage & agribusiness; healthcare & life sciences; and technology.
Attorney Jeremy Poryes has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as Of Counsel in the Real Estate group in Phoenix.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations, citing the Second Amendment and recent shootings at bases across the country.
In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member's request must be explained in detail and in writing.
“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you're training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn't carry, you couldn't bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”
Questions about why service members lacked access to weapons have often emerged following shootings on the nation's military bases. Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shootings by an Army psychiatrist at Texas’ Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
Hegseth cited some of the events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year. Officials said the shooter, an Army sergeant who worked at the base, used his personal handgun before he was tackled by fellow soldiers and arrested.
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Defense Department policy has prohibited military personnel from carrying personal weapons on base without permission from a senior commander, with strict protocol for how the firearms must be stored.
Typically, military personnel must officially check their guns out of secure storage to go to on-base hunting areas or shooting ranges, then check all firearms back in promptly after their sanctioned use. Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
Tanya Schardt, senior counsel at the Brady gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement that Defense Department leaders and the military’s top brass have opposed relaxing the current policy, which was originally enacted under President George H.W. Bush.
Schardt noted that most active duty service members who die by suicide do so with a weapon they own personally, not one military-issued, and argued that there will “undoubtedly be an increase in gun suicide and other gun violence.”
While fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024, the suicide rates among active duty troops overall still have gradually increased between 2011 and 2024, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.
“Our military installations are among the most guarded, protected properties in the world, and they’ve never been ‘gun-free zones,’” Schardt said. “If there is a problem with violent crime on these installations, then the Secretary of Defense has an obligation to alert the American people and describe how he’s working to prevent that crime.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
