Attorney
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Practice areas

• Personal injury law
• Medical malpractice
• Commercial litigation
• Administrative law
• Product defects
• Gaming law
• Lottery law

Admitted

• Arizona, 1974
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1974
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1977
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, 2011

Education

• University of Arizona, J.D.

Recognition

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest recognition possible in the legal industry for professionalism and ethics

Associations & memberships

• Maricopa County Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section)
• State Bar of Arizona (Member: Civil Jury Instructions Committee, 1995-1998; Civil Practice and Procedure Committee, 2009)
• American Association for Justice
• Arizona Association for Justice
• American Trial Lawyers Association
• Litigation Counsel of America
• Arizona’s Finest Lawyers

Biographical details
Phi Delta Phi. Listed in: Who’s Who in Arizona, 1989; Who’s Who is America, 2000; Southwest Super Lawyers, 2008; Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, 2011; American Trial Lawyer’s Association Top 100 Trial Lawyers of Arizona, 2011; Litigation Counsel of Arizona, 2011. Assistant Attorney General, 1974-1983. Executive Director, Arizona State Lottery, 1983-1987. Member: Friedl, Richter & Buri, P.A., 1987-2008; Charles E. Buri, P.L.C., 2008. City of Phoenix Community Services Commission, 1983-1985; Rotary, 1993-1998; Luke’s Men, 1993-1998. Judge Pro Tempore, Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court, 2003—. Life Member, Fiesta Bowl Committee.

Cases

• Elks v. Arizona Board of Liquor Licenses and Control, 239 Ariz. 121, 366 P.3d 1011 (App. 2016)
• Patton v. Cox, 276 F.3d 493 (9th Cir. 2002)
• U.S. Postal Service v. Amada, 200 F.3d 647 (9th Cir. 2000)
• DeCola v. Freyer, 198 Ariz. 28, 6 P.3d 333 (App. 2000)
• Culpepper v. State, 187 Ariz. 431, 930 P.2d 508 (App. 1996)
• Schmitz v. Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners, 141 Ariz. 37, 684 P.2d 918 (App. 1984)
• Matter of Wickman, 138 Ariz. 337, 674 P.2d 891 (App. 1983)
• Caldwell v. Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners, 137 Ariz. 396, 670 P.2d 1220 (App. 1983)
• Lipschultz v. Superior Court, 128 Ariz. 16, 623 P.2d 805 (1981)
• Barnet v. Board of Medical Examiners, 121 Ariz. 338, 590 P.2d 454 (1979)
• Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners v. Hyder, 114 Ariz. 544, 562 P.2d 717 (1977)