Ted A. Schmidt

TED A. SCHMIDT

Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian
1790 E. River Rd. Suite 300
Tucson, Arizona 85718545-1670
Facsimile: (520) 790-1163
tschmidt@azinjurylaw.com

1995 PresentManaging Partner with the law firm of Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian.

1984 1995Partner. OConnor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears.

1992 1995Managing Partner of Tucson and Nogales Offices of OConnor Cavanagh.

1980 1984Partner Jennings, Strouss & Salmon.

1977 – 1980Associate Jennings, Strouss & Salmon

EDUCATION:Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction, University of Arizona, 1974; Juris Doctor with Distinction, University of Arizona, 1977.

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ASSOCIATIONS:Best Lawyers in America 2002 to present.

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers 1997 to present.

Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers – 2011 to Present

Fellow, International Society of Barristers, 1995 to present.

American Board of Trial Advocates, 1981 to present.

Member of Arizona Finest Lawyers

State Bar of Arizona Member of the Year

Recipient of the Walter E. Craig Distinguished Service Award – 2006

Arizona Alumni Association’s Sydney S. Woods Alumni Service Award, March 2005.

State Bar Continuing Legal Education Award 1997, 2011

State Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers 1999 to 2001.

State Chair, International Society of Barristers, 2004

President of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Tucson Chapter, 1999.

Member of Commission on Appellate Court Appointments – 2010 to present (4 year term)

Chairman, Advisory Commission for Certification in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation before State Bar, 1989-2004.

Chairman of the Trial Practice Section of the State Bar of Arizona, 1986.

Founding Chairman and faculty member, Arizona College of Trial Advocacy, 1985 to present.

State Bar Certified Specialist in Injury and Wrongful Death litigation.

Appointed to serve on State Bar Professional Liability Insurance Task Force, 2002.

Appointed to serve on Arizona State Bar to Investigate a Captive Insurance Company, 2002-03.

Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1987.

Civil Justice Committee for American College of Trial Lawyers, 1998 to 2000.

Graduate and faculty member of Hastings College of Trial Advocacy, 1979 and 1981.

Member Board of Visitors, University of Arizona College of Law, 1981 to 1984.

Chairman of the Board of Visitors to the University of Arizona College of Law, 1984, 2003.

Chairman of the State Bar Convention, 1988.

Arizona State Bar Civil Practice & Procedures Committee member, 1982.

Board Member, Law College Association, University of Arizona, 1994 to present.

Member of the Arizona Federal District Court of Arizona, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court Bars.

American Bar Association.

American Association of Justice.

Arizona Association of Justice.

Judge Pro Tem, Pima County Superior Court.

Adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, College of Law.

Managing Editor, Arizona Law Review, 1976-1977.

PUBLICATIONS:Taking the Strict Out of Products Liability Law in Arizona, Arizona Attorney (June, 2010)

Merit Selection of Judges: Under Attack Without Merit, Arizona Attorney (January, 2006).

Insurance Bad Faith: First-Party and Third-Party Claims and Available Damages, BarBites, A Division of Arizona Institute of Continuing Legal Education (1990).

Refusals to Settle, Refusals to Defend, Reservations of Rights and Damron Agreements, BarBites, A Division of Arizona Institute of Continuing Legal Education (1990).

Punitive Damages in Arizona: The Reports of Their Death are Greatly Exaggerated, 29 Ariz.L.Rev. 599 (1987).

State of the Art A New Frontier in the Products Liability Area, Arizona State Bar Journal (February 1984).

Turning the Plaintiffs Assertion of the Physician-Patient Privilege to the Advantage of the Defense, 25 For the Defense, (March 1983).

Use of Request for Admissions in the No Liability Case, 24 For the Defense, 10 (June 1982).

Architects, Engineers and the Statute of Limitations, 1 DRI Monogram, 24 (1982).

Common Law Concepts of Life Insurance in Community Property Jurisdictions: Recommendations for a Practical Approach, 18 Ariz.L.Rev. 182 (1976).

Double Jeopardy, Multiple Punishment and the Criminality of Crime While on Bail, 17 Ariz.L.Rev. 757 (1975).

LECTURES:July, 2016- Speaker State Bar CLE by the Sea: Trial Track

April, 2016- Chaired Bench and Bar Spring Luncheon

April 2016- Speaker ACTL Innovative Trial Preparation and Presentation

December 2015- Chaired Bench and Bar Winter Program

November 2015- Speaker ACTL Winning Opening Statements and Effective Closing Argument

August 2015 Speaker-CLE The Good News and Bad News

July 2015 Speaker-CLE by the Missouri River Recent Developments in Tort Law

May, 2015 Chaired ACTL Escape from the Briar Patch Between Discovery and Trial

April, 2015 Chaired Spring Bench and Bar

May, 2014 Chaired State Bar-Winning the Motor Vehicle Accident Case 2014 Update

April, 2014 Chaired Spring Bench and Bar

December, 2013 Chaired Winter Bench and Bar

May, 2013 Speaker AZTLA “Top 5 New Developments Every Trial Lawyer Needs to Know” Learn it Lunch Seminar

December, 2012 Chaired Winter Bench and Bar

May, 2012 Chaired Spring Bench and Bar

July, 2012 Speaker CLE by the Sea-Trial Track

April, 2012 Speaker Arizona Board of Trial Advocates – Opening Statements

December, 2011 Chaired Winter Bench and Bar

September, 2011 Speaker State Bar Workers Compensation Seminar

April, 2011 Speaker – 4th Annual Federal Civil Practice Seminar

April, 2011 – Chaired Spring Bench and Bar

March, 2011 Speaker AZTLA Trial Masters Seminar

December 2010 Chaired Winter Bench and Bar Program

October 2010 Chaired Arizona Chapter of the American College for Trial Lawyers Daubert is Coming!

October, 2010 Speaker Daubert Seminar to Tucson Defense Bar

October 2010- Speaker Report Writing: Restraints, Reasoning, and Refinement

May 2010 Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Updates from the Pima County Superior Court Benches

April 2010 AZTLA “Top 5 New Developments Every Trial Lawyer Needs to Know” Learn it Lunch Seminar

March 2010 Speaker Insurance Law State Bar of Arizona

March 2010 Speaker Damron/Morris Agreements State Bar Insurance Law Seminar

December, 2009 Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Winter Seminar

April, 2009, Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Updates from the Pima County Superior Court Benches

December, 2008, Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Winter Program

May, 2008, Speaker Effective Demand Letters: View from Both Sides AZTLA

April, 2008, Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Updates from the Pima County Superior Court Benches

April, 2008, Speaker Nuts and Bolts Seminar- State Bar Courtroom Series

January, 2008, Speaker – Lorman – Insurance Bad Faith Claims

September, 2007 Speaker Maricopa County Bar Association

May, 2007 Presentation for Arizona Trial Lawyers Association Seminar on Do It Yourself Focus Groups.

December, 2006 Chaired State Bar Unpublished Opinions, ADR & JPR

May, 2006 Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Selection and Rotation of Judges.

May, 2006 Presentation for the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association Seminar on Do It Yourself Focus Groups.

December 2005 Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Roundtable with the Robes.

May 2005 Chaired State Bar Bench and Bar Updates from the Civil, ADR, Criminal, Family, Probate and Juvenile Benches.

June 2004 State Bar Presentation on Insurance Law from A to Z.

November 2003Presentation for Arizona Trial Lawyers Association on Bad Faith, Damron, Morris, and Peaton Agreements and Himes

July 2003 – Presentation for State Bar of Arizona White Mountains Seminar on Trial Skills (Pinetop/Lakeside, Arizona).

April 2003 Presentation for American Conference Institute Bad faith and Punitive Damages (San Francisco, California).

July 2002 – Presentation for State Bar of Arizona White Mountains Seminar on Trial Skills (Pinetop/Lakeside, Arizona).

May 2002 Presentation for CLE West Arizona Evidence Law.

April 2002 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona Encyclopedia of Experts.

July 2001 – Presentation for State Bar of Arizona White Mountains Seminar on Trial Skills (Pinetop/Lakeside, Arizona).

November 2000 Presentation for the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association Seminar on Expert Testimony in Federal and State Court (Tucson, Arizona).

October 2000 Presentation for Pima County Bar Association Seminar on Admissibility of Expert Opinion Evidence in Federal and Arizona Courts (Tucson, Arizona).

August 2000 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 2000 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona – White Mountains Seminar on Use of Medical Experts (Greer, Arizona).

August 1999 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1999 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona White Mountains Seminar on Ethics (Greer, Arizona).

July 1999 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

June 1999 — Presentation for Lorman Business Center on Insurance Bad Faith Law (Tucson, Arizona).

February 1999 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona on Professionalism.

August 1998 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1998 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona White Mountains Seminar on Professionalism & Ethics (Greer, Arizona).

July 1998 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

August 1997 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1997 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

August 1996 – Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1996 Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

September 1995 — Presentation for Lorman Business Center on Insurance Law (Tucson, Arizona).

August 1995 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1995 — Presentation for ATLA Annual Convention Disclosure vs. Discovery Strategic, Practical and Ethical Problems caused by New Federal Rules (New York City, New York).

July 1995 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

June 1995 — Presentation for Lorman Business Services on Legal Malpractice A Case Study (Tucson, Arizona).

May 1995 — Presentation for Arizona Association of Defense Counsel on Proposed Rule Changes Juries (Tucson, Arizona).

September 1994 — Presentation for Lorman Business Center on Insurance Law (Tucson, Arizona).

August 1994 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona, College of Trial Advocacy Program (Tucson, Arizona).

July 1994 — Presentation for State Bar of Arizona CLE by the Sea Program (San Diego, California).

June 1994 — Presentation for Western Trial Lawyers Association on Making It Work Trial Practice in the 90s. (Kapalua, Maui).

(Note: Although involved in professional and educational lecturing since 1982, listing above includes most recent 10 years of lectures)

AWARDS:Top 50 Attorneys in Arizona, 2012

University of Arizona Alumnus of the Year 2010 presented October, 22, 2010

Presidents Award National Football Foundation presented March 28, 2009

Arizona Association of Defense Counsel Award Epitomizing the Highest Standard of Integrity and Professionalism presented September 20, 2007

Top 50 Southwest Super Lawyer, 2007

University of Arizona College of Law Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2007

Walter E. Craig Distinguished Service Award, June 2006.

NALS of Tucson Boss of the Year Award, April 2006

Southern Arizona Association of High School Athletic Directors Ray McNally Award for Outstanding Contribution to High School Athletics, presented May 2003.

State Bar of Arizona Member of the Year Award, 2002.

Presidents Award, National Eagle Scout Associations Scoutmaster Award of Merit (2000).

Spanish Trails District Award of Merit, Catalina Council Boy Scouts of America, 1998.

State Bar of Arizona Outstanding Leadership in Contribution to Continuing Legal Education Award, 1987 and 1997.

William Spade Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions Made to the College of Law, University of Arizona, 1977
COMMUNITY:President, Tucson Soccer Academy 2011-present.

Founder and Director of the Tara Nicole Schmidt Have a Dream Memorial Scholarship, 1994 to present. A scholarship at the University of Arizona, which has provided substantial financial aid to 5 exceptional Arizona High School graduates in the last 7 years.

Member, Board of Directors of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, 2003 present.

Catalina Council, Boy Scouts of America Spanish Trials District Chairman 1998 to 2001; Council Commissioner, 2001 to 2003, and Catalina Council Legal Counsel, 2003 2004.

President of Catalina Foothills High School Football Booster Club: Touchdown Club, 2000 to 2003

Cub Master Pack 220, Catalina Council BSA, 1990 to 1995. Scoutmaster Troop 100, Catalina Council BSA, 1995 to 2000. Venture Crew Advisor to Venture 100 BSA, 1999 to 2002.

Canyon View Little League coach, 1990 to 1997.

Canyon View Little League Board of Directors and Chair of fundraising for all new stadium lighting, 1996.

Shadow Rock Church Finance Chairman, 1987-1989.
Eagle Scout, 1966.