Brian Kaven, Esq.

Phone: (602) 274-7611

Email: bkaven@bcattorneys.com

Practice Areas

Employment Law
Insurance Defense / Personal Injury Litigation
Labor & Employment

Education

J.D. cum laude, Arizona State University College of Law, 1972
• Associate Editor, Arizona State Law Journal, Law and the Social Order

B.A. with honors, University of California at Santa Barbara, History, 1968
• Dean’s list

Admitted In

Arizona
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the District of Arizona

Brian Kaven is the senior attorney among the firm’s personal injury and tort defense attorneys and concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury defense, discrimination and wrongful termination defense, defense of governmental entities, professional malpractice and general litigation. He has been listed in the last 4 editions of Southwest Super Lawyers and is included among Arizona’s Finest Lawyers. Brian is a member of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute. He is an AV® Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 peer review rated attorney in Martindale-Hubbell.

Brian is certified as an Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation Specialist by the State Bar of Arizona and has personally handled hundreds of litigated cases. He tries cases in state and federal court.

Prior to joining the firm, Brian was in private practice with a small Phoenix law firm and then received further trial experience working as a public defender.

Areas of Concentration

Discrimination Claims
Employment Litigation
Government/Public Entity Liability
Insurance Bad Faith and Coverage Litigation
Product Liability Litigation
Professional Liability Litigation

Honors & Awards

Selected, Southwest Super Lawyers 2007-2012
• Personal Injury Defense: General
Selected, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers 2011
Ranked AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5* in Martindale Hubbell

*AV® Preeminent ™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

Representative Engagements

Defended multi-national golf cart manufacturer in a products wrongful death case.

Defended major governmental entity and two of its agencies, and agency heads in contract and wrongful termination lawsuit.

Defended multi-state insurance carrier in agency and employment litigation.

Defended four-year college in Title IX litigation.

Defended hospital and surgeons in case involving alleged medical malpractice and resulting permanent paralysis.

Defended international charitable organization in a wrongful death case.

Defended religious body accused of maintaining unsafe daycare center.

Defended international resort accused of negligence in the death of an employee.

Defended assisted living facility accused of elder abuse.

Defended interstate trucking business in double wrongful death.

Defended food adulteration cases.

Defended premises security and death case.

Defended insurance carrier in bad faith litigation.

Professional Leadership

Former member, State Bar of Arizona Civil Practice and Procedures Committee

Member, Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
Member, Defense Research Institute
American Bar Association
• Section on Litigation
• Section on Tort and Insurance Practice
• Section on Employment Law

Professional Affiliations

American Bar Association

State Bar of Arizona

Maricopa County Bar Association

Defense Research Institute

Arizona Association of Defense Counsel

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Practicing: Employment Law, Insurance Defense, Personal Injury Litigation, Labor & Employment

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