Professional Experience
Mr. Anthony is the founding partner of Anthony Law PLC and represents individual and corporate clients in a wide range of litigation matters, including complex commercial litigation and personal injury.
Mr. Anthony has extensive trial experience, having conducted numerous trials at both the state and federal court level for diverse clients including corporate executives as well as nursing, distribution, accounting, construction, and real estate companies. He has also successfully resolved countless cases in arbitration and at mediation.
In 2009, Mr. Anthony helped secure the largest plaintiff’s jury verdict awarded in Arizona that year – a judgment of over $50 million for a corporate client.
Prior to founding Anthony Law PLC, Mr. Anthony practiced commercial litigation with Snell & Wilmer. Thereafter, he managed the personal injury litigation practice of Lerner & Rowe in Arizona. As the head litigator at Lerner & Rowe, he was responsible for the case management of over one hundred active litigation matters and overseeing a legal team that included other attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants.
Practice Areas
Abbreviated as ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution is any method of resolving disputes other than by litigation. Arbitration and mediation are the two major forms of ADR. Mediation is an informal alternative to litigation. Mediators are individuals trained in negotiations, who bring opposing parties together and attempt to work out a settlement or agreement that both parties accept or reject. Mediation is used for a wide gamut of case-types ranging from commercial disputes to personal injury matters. Arbitration is a simplified version of a trial involving limited discovery and simplified rules of evidence. The arbitration is headed and decided by an arbitration panel. Arbitration hearings usually last between a few days to a week. The panel then deliberates and issues a written decision, or arbitration award. Arbitration has long been used in labor, construction, and securities regulation, but is gaining popularity in other business disputes. Our litigation team has considerable experience with both mediations and arbitrations.
Our litigation team has extensive experience handling a variety of commercial litigation matters, including real estate disputes, partnership disputes, insurance disputes, and a host of other business disputes. We have experience handling these business disputes from the pre-litigation stage all the way up to and through trial.
There are various reasons why litigation should sometimes be avoided: (1) cost control; (2) risk avoidance; (3) distraction; (4) damage to business relationship; and (5) public relations. Oftentimes, unnecessary litigation arises as a result of stubbornness/pride, lack of knowledge/understanding, passion/emotions, failure to communicate, and greed. Our litigation team has considerable experience in assisting clients with litigation avoidance by: (1) helping them understand the motivations of the other party; (2) improving communications with the other party; (3) analyzing the client’s past performance to determine what activities typically result in litigation; (4) rapidly responding to threatening developments in their earliest stages; and (5) incorporating risk shifting and litigation alternative provisions into the client’s business practices.
Our litigation team has considerable experience handling a variety of medical malpractice claims, including those against individual physicians, small practice groups, hospitals, and a host of other defendants. We have experience handling these medical malpractice claims from the initial insurance demand stage all the way up to and through trial.
Our litigation team has considerable experience handling a variety of personal injury claims, including ones arising from motor vehicle collisions, slip-and-falls, dog bites, and a host of other bodily injury claims. We have experience handling these personal injury claims from the initial insurance demand stage all the way up to and through trial.
A legal risk assessment involves identifying, analyzing, and taking steps to reduce or eliminate the exposures to loss faced by your business. A risk assessment is vital for your business, since some common types of losses such as property damage, liability claims, employee claims, breach of contract claims, and disputes with co-owners can destroy what may have taken you years to build. These losses and liabilities can affect day-to-day operations, reduce profits, and cause financial hardship severe enough to cripple or bankrupt your business. Our litigation team has extensive experience helping companies minimize those things that may negatively affect their business and identifying those things that will help them to achieve their goals and objectives.