Kathleen M. Langley

Ms. Langley is the managing partner for the firm and has been a litigator since 1982. She has handled several California state court jury trials to verdict involving wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury and dental malpractice claims, has co-tried several jury trials in Arizona and has handled hundreds of binding ADR proceedings, including arbitrations and mediations. She handles a variety of cases, including personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice matters in the area of misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose melanoma, and children's claims against school districts for failure to report child abuse. As managing partner, she supervises and mentors the firm's associate attorneys and paralegals and is responsible for teaching them trial practice skills. She has coached the firm's former and present associate attorneys in several Arizona jury trials to verdict.

Ms. Langley received her Juris Doctorate degree from San Francisco Law School in 1981 and is actively licensed in the States of Arizona and California. She is a member of the Arizona and California Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute, the Maricopa County and Scottsdale Bar Associations and the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. She is a trained mediator and co-taught mediation and negotiation courses at Stanford and Hastings Law Schools. She was a faculty member of the 2009 Arizona College of Trial Advocacy. Ms. Langley is also a member of the Board of Directors for a Scottsdale community association, an Advisory Board Member of a charitable non-profit corporation dedicated to cancer research and is a former Advisory Board Member of a non-profit corporation dedicated to the resolution of child abuse. Ms. Langley is co-authoring a paper for medical publication with a renowned surgical oncologist on the legal consequences of melanoma misdiagnosis.