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Douglas L. Christian

AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell
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“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.

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

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Locations

PHOENIX

Christian, Dichter & Sluga, P.C.
Suite 860
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602.792.1700
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LAS VEGAS

Christian, Johnson, Sluga & Mushmeche, LLC
8985 S. Eastern Ave.
Suite 200
Las Vegas, NV 89123
702.362.6666

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