Frank Verderame
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 41 years of experience
Personal Injury, Wrongful Death
316 E. Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85012
About Frank Verderame
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
Education
- University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, 1982J.D.
- Honors: Moot Court Best Brief Award, 1981
- Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, 1979B.A.
- Major: Political Science
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Literature, James Madison Society
Languages
- Italian
- Spanish
Representative Cases
- Anson v. American Motors Corp., 747 P.2d 581 (Ariz.App. Div. 1 1987)
- State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Brudnock, 727 P.2d 321 (Ariz. 1986)
- Dorman v. Swift and Co., 757 P.2d 1064 (Ariz.App. Div. 2 1988)
- Hills v. Salt River Project Ass'n, 698 P.2d 216 (Ariz.App. Div. 1 1985)
Classes and Seminars
- Lecturer "Reimbursement Rights Under the Clinton Healthcare Proposals", Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 1994
- Lecturer, "Running the E.R.I.S.A. Blockade", National College of Advocacy, 1991
- Lecturer, "Liens - A Plague upon Us", Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 1989
- Lecturer, "Limitations on Use of the Seatbelt Defense", Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, March 25, 1988
- Lecturer, "Punitive Damages in Bad Faith Actions - Dead or Alive?", Western Trial Lawyers Association, June 11, 1987
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Arizona, 1982
- U.S. District Court District of Arizona
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Arizona, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1982
Other Affiliations
- Arizona Bar Association, 1983 - 1991 (Civil Practice and Procedure Committee)
- Arizona Bar Association, 1985 - 1992
- Arizona Association for Justice (Director)
- Arizona Association for Justice, 1992 (President)
- Arizona Association for Justice, 1991 (Secretary-Treasurer)
- Arizona Association for Justice, 1990 (Seminar Director)
- Arizona Association for Justice, 1985 - 1991 (Legislative Director)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Member)
- America Association for Justice, Insurance Section, 1995 - 1996 (First Chair)
- America Association for Justice, 1994 - 1995 (Chairman)
- America Association for Justice, Insurance Section, 1993 - 1994 (First Vice Chair)
- America Association for Justice, 1992 - 1993 (Secretary/Treasurer)
- Maricopa County Bar Association (Member)
- American Bar Association (Member)
- American Association for Justice (Member)
- American Judicature Society (Member)
- American Arbitration Association (Panel of Arbitrators)
- Roscoe Pound Foundation (Member)
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Association (Member)
- Arizona Association of Defense Counsel (Member)
- Arizona Trial Lawyers Association (President)
- Sports Lawyers Association (Member)
- Maricopa County Superior Court and the Arizona Court of Appeals (Judge Pro Tem)
Fraternities and Sororities
- Phi Alpha Delta
Articles
Published Works
- "Settling Personal Injury Claims in Arizona", F. Verderame, L. Winthrop, W. Winslow and G. Wilt, February, 1987
- "Rossell v. Volkswagen - A New Standard of Care for Products Liability Actions?", Summation Magazine, Spring Ed, 1985
- "La Guirisprudenza Italiana Sul Diritto Del Mare", Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 1., 1982
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