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RICHARD S. PLATTNER
Listed in "Best Lawyers in America"
State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death
"AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Past President, Arizona Trial Lawyers Assoc.
ABOTA member
Special Interests:
Computerized Case Organization & Demonstrative
Evidence; Evolving Legal Ethics.
Licensure:
- 1977: Arizona Supreme Court; Federal District
Court, District of Arizona.
- 1987: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
- 1991: Certified Specialist in Injury and
Wrongful Death Litigation, by the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization.
Bar Service:
- 1994-present: Arizona Supreme Court Commission
on Legal Ethics Reform.
- 1987-1999: Arizona State Bar Association,
Civil Practice and Procedure Committee.
- 1991-1992: Arizona State Bar Association,
Committee on Recommended Arizona Jury Instructions.
- 1986-1988: Arizona State Bar Association,
Judicial Evaluation Committee.
- 1986-1987: Arizona State Bar Association,
Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee.
- 1987, 1988: Faculty, Trial Practice College,
National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Professional Associations:
- Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, LIfe Member
since 12/2004. President, 1991. Sustaining Member, 1983-present. Board
of Directors, 1986-present. Various committees.
- Phoenix Trial Lawyers Association, President, 1986-1987.
Board of Directors, 1983-present.
- American Trial Lawyers Association, Sustaining
Member, 1986-present; Leaders' Forum, 2001-present.
- Arizona State Bar Association (see above).
- Maricopa County Bar Association, Various Committees.
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Publications:
- Author, Appellate Highlights, monthly article
in the AzTLA Advocate, 1985-present.
- Principal Editor, Maricopa County Superior Court
Judges, published by AzTLA, 1985.
- Author: "Evaluation & Settlement of Personal
Injury Cases in Arizona: Plaintiffs' Perspective," PESI, 1990.
- Author: "ADVOCACY: The Last Bastion of Caveat Emptor,"
Petition to Arizona Supreme Court to Modify Arizona Ethics Rules, 1993.
[Full text available at Arizona
Rules of Court.]
- Author: "Lawyering: Beyond the Adversary System,"
Arizona Attorney, 1994.
- Author: "Locking the Courthouse Door," Trial
Practice, 1995.
- Author: "The Discovery Czar Approach to Limiting
Litigation Abuse," Unpublished article for the Maricopa County Superior
Court Civil Study Committee, August, 1997.
- Author: "Discovery Disputes: How to Run the Railroad
Without Railroading Anybody," MaricopaLawyer, November, 1997.
Discussed: Up
And Running: The Jami Goldman Story, by Goldman & Cagan, Pocket
Books (Simon & Schuster, Inc.), 2001.
Degrees and Honors :
- 1997: Members American Board of Trial
Advocates.
- 1991: Board Certified Specialist in
Injury & Wrongful Death Litigation by State Bar of Arizona (renewed
1996, 2001).
- 1983: National Institue for Trial Advocacy.
Trial College.
- 1977: Arizona State University College of
Law, Tempe, Arizona. Degree: Juris Doctor.
- 1973: Michigan State University. Member:
Honors College; National Merit Scholar. Graduated: BA cum laude from
Honors College
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