Douglas L. Christian
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Douglas L. Christian
“I do the best I can each day to fix a problem, advocate for a client who needs help or give common-sense advice to someone in need of guidance. A day’s work for a day’s pay.“Over my career, I have defended in Arizona and Nevada many of the largest national insurers against multi-million-dollar claims of fraud and bad faith. After decades in the trenches, I now focus on keeping our clients out of trouble, and out of court.”
A veteran insurance attorney with more than four decades of litigation experience, Doug Christian regularly represents insurers in insurance coverage and bad faith cases and advises insurers and policyholders on insurance coverage and claim practices. His practice emphasizes insurance and professional liability litigation.
Doug Christian is a founding member of Christian, Dichter & Sluga, P.C., and its Nevada affiliate, Christian, Kravitz, Dichter, Johnson & Sluga, PLLC. He is licensed in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado and maintains an active practice in both Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Doug is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Insurance Law, Personal Injury-Defense and Commercial Litigation and is a Super Lawyers (Insurance Law) and Arizona’s Finest Lawyers honoree. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. He is also a past president of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel and a former member of the Council of the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. Doug is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel.
Practice Areas
Insurance Law: Insurance Bad Faith and Coverage Litigation
Professional Liability Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
Honors and Awards
AV-Preeminent® Peer Review Rating™ by Martindale-Hubbell®
The Best Lawyers in America® (Insurance Law, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation-Defense), 2005-present
Super Lawyers (Insurance Coverage), 2007-present
Distinguished Service Award, Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, 2017
Arizona’s Finest Lawyers
“Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona,” AZ Business Magazine, 2015
“Top Lawyers – Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation,” Phoenix Magazine, 2006
“Best of the Bar” (Insurance), Phoenix Business Journal, 2005
Defense Research Institute: Exceptional Performance Citation as President of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, 1996/1997
First Place, 2012 Arizona Attorney Magazine Creative Arts Competition (Non-Fiction), 2012: “The Phoenix Drive-In”
Professional Activities
American Law Institute
Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel
American Board of Trial Advocates
The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
American Bar Association: Fellow of the Tort, Trial and Insurance Section
Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, 1991-2017
National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1992-1995
Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, 2009-2018
State Bar of Arizona: Professionalism Course Faculty
State Bar of Nevada
Arizona Association of Defense Counsel: President, 1995-1997
Court Admissions
Arizona
Nevada
Colorado
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States Supreme Court
Education
J.D., Arizona State University, 1975
B.S., Arizona State University, 1972
Community Leadership
Valley Big Brothers: Board of Directors, 1981-1982
Central Arizona Health Systems Agency, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 1979-1981