Founded in 1941, the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys is an association of attorneys who provide a complete legal service to persons or companies who require defense within the civil justice system.
Members of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys include trial lawyer doing principally defense work in insurance and self-insurer activities with more than five (5) years defense trial experience. Members also include corporate counsel and employees of insurance companies or self-insureds are ineligible for membership. The organization was formally known as the Association of Insurance Attorneys.
The Association of Defense Trial Attorneys is an association of attorneys who provide a complete legal service to persons or companies who require defense within the civil justice system.
The Association of Defense Trial Attorneys has two primary goals:
Membership classifications include both prime members and associate members.
Prime Members: The first lawyer member from a firm is the prime member. There can only be one Prime Member from any town, city, or metropolitan area of less than a million population. One additional Prime Member is allowed for each additional one million population, or portion thereof, for a city or metropolitan area. An ADTA prime membership is, in essence, a statement of the high regard in which defense trial attorneys are held by his or her peers in the defense trial bar of their city and state or province.
