PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY (MEDICAL AND LEGAL)

With our extensive experience in the defense of physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, as well as legal professionals, our firm is retained to represent health care and legal professionals in high profile matters involving complex legal issues and multi-million dollar damage claims. Our founding partner, Dan H. Deuprey, has tried over 100 jury trials, as well as handling numerous private arbitrations in the past 35 years.

FAMILY LAW

Whether you are preparing for marriage, wishing to adopt a child, or facing the difficulties of dissolution of marriage, you need an experienced and knowledgeable attorney to assist you in reaching the best decisions and solutions for you and your family. Under the leadership of veteran family law attorney Solveig Store Deuprey, we assist our clients in matters such as prenuptial agreements, dissolution, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support issues, private adoption, and paternity actions. We are adept at handling all aspects of family law, with an emphasis on complex, high asset dissolution cases.

APPELLATE

Deuprey & Associates, LLP realizes that outstanding service to our clients does not stop at the conclusion of trial. Collectively, we have been handling appeals for almost 40 years, including several published opinions and experience in oral argument before the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal. We take pride in producing well-written, convincing, and cost-efficient appellate briefs, extraordinary writs and motions for new trial. Appellate issues we have handled include challenging constitutional doctrines, complex evidentiary issues, interpretation of contracts, and interpretation of convoluted statutory schemes.

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION

Mr. Deuprey is an experienced arbitrator having served as a neutral arbitrator or party arbitrator in numerous cases in addition to handling dozens of cases as counsel for parties in arbitration. He views his role as one requiring complete impartiality and integrity. Deuprey & Associates, LLP is always cognizant of the fact that parties seeking to resolve their disputes in arbitration desire to avoid unnecessarily protracted and expensive civil litigation.

BUSINESS LITIGATION

Our attorneys have a reputation for effective, efficient and successful resolution of business disputes in a variety of areas including breach of contract, fraud, unfair business practices, false advertising, and defamation. All of our clients rely on our extensive trial court experience and our ability to litigate major civil cases at all levels of state and federal courts.

CONSTRUCTION DEFECT

Deuprey & Associates, LLP's construction defect practice has included the representation of developers, general contractors and design professionals. Our attorneys have provided representation in the litigation of construction fee disputes as well as claims for defects. Deuprey & Associates, LLP takes great pride in its ability to minimize our client's exposure by an approach of early analysis and considering multiple approaches to obtain a cost effective resolution in each case.

INSURANCE

The founding partners' experience in defense litigation includes over 40 years of work combined with insurance carriers, dealing frequently with coverage issues involving reservations of rights, excess issues with interpretation of applicable limits, exclusions, and other related questions of insurance policy interpretation. The firm's counsel are sensitive to the frequent potential conflicts of interest between the policy holders and carriers with the ability to properly represent insureds and insurance companies alike, including first party, third party and Cumis counsel representation.

ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

Deuprey & Associates, LLP has experience representing health care providers regarding licensing issues before the California Medical Board and in hospital privilege hearings.

PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

Counsel with Deuprey & Associates over the last 20 years have represented parties in cases involving products liability claims relating to pharmaceuticals, pace makers, rock crushing equipment, industrial metal grinding equipment, arthroscopic pumps used in knee surgeries, mass housing construction defects, and others. The firm is experienced in utilizing cost-efficient, effective methods of investigation, discovery and testing of products involved in such litigation, with the ability to locate and retain effective independent experts to successfully represent both personal and institutional clients involved in this type of litigation.

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