- Trade Secrets
- Employment
- Restrictive Covenants
- Commercial Litigation
- Products Liability
- Securities
Thirty-six years of experience as a business/complex commercial and catastrophic injury trial lawyer at a national law firm and General Counsel/Chief Legal Officer of a Fortune 500 publicly traded company. Unique arbitrator credentials based upon: experience and perspective as an outside trial counsel, in house corporate counsel, client, and business advisor; extensive experience with both plaintiff and defense bars, clients’ perceptions of litigation/arbitration risk, and primary and excess insurance company decision making; 25 years as Judge Pro Tem of the Maricopa County Superior Court, conducting over 175 settlement conferences and presiding over arbitrations.
Principal, De Respino Dispute Resolution<br/><br/>https://derespinoadr.com
Mediation/Arbitration
2005-2023: General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, U-Haul Holding Company, Inc<br/>2000-2005: Director of Litigation, Office of the General Counsel, U-Haul Holding Company, Inc<br/>1987-2000: Litigation/Trial Partner, Streich Lang (nka Quarles & Brady)
I have had a unique legal career in that I have been a consumer and provider of legal services as well as a member of a executive business team tasked with evaluating claims and litigation. I have experience in a broad range of substantive legal matters including class action and shareholder derivative actions, products liability/catastrophic injury, employment, breach of fiduciary duty, business and close held corporations, non-compete, insurance coverage and bad faith, and breach of contract.
See above Experience as a Mediator
Proficient with the various online platforms (i.e. Zoom, LoopUp, GoToMeeting, etc.) and willing to conduct arbitrations virtually.
1982: B.A., Amherst College<br/>1987: J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law
Arizona, 1987<br/>California, 1995
$500 Per Hour
English
United States of America
Phoenix, AZ
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