Dale C. Schian

As a veteran insolvency strategist and counsellor, Dale represents businesses and individuals involved in the full array of commercial creditor and debtor-related endeavors. With more than three decades of hard-earned, hands-on experience, Dale is regularly involved in complex out-of-court workouts, restructurings, and Chapter 11 reorganizations. Notably, Dale has represented myriad business clients from a wide variety of specialized and traditional industry sectors, a sampling of which includes manufacturing, retail, high-tech, agribusiness, commercial real estate, multi-family housing, and real estate development.

A Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America honoree, member of Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, and listed in Corporate Counsel’s Top Lawyers in Bankruptcy Debtor-Creditor Rights Law, Dale is valued by clients and colleagues alike for this legal acuity, business acumen, prudent judgement, and laser-sharp focus on each client’s ultimate goals. Ranked a 2016 and 2018 Phoenix “Lawyer of the Year” (Litigation – Bankruptcy) and listed among The Best Lawyers in America®, Dale remains diligently committed to guiding clients through difficult economic conditions and protecting their assets at every turn when devising a favorable path to realizing the best possible result.

Dale’s extensive experience in complex financial litigation provides a solid foundation for his alternative dispute resolution talent—both as an advocate and as a neutral—and as a leader in the emerging discipline of settlement advocacy. Moreover, Dale’s many years of problem solving after judgments have been entered gives him insight into each parties’ underlying objectives when working to resolve complicated matters without the time, expense, and delay associated with a trial.

A member of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and Dispute Resolution Section and Litigation Section. Dale also served on the ABA Law Practice Division’s Ethics & Professional Responsibility, and Member Development Committees. He serves as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and has served as a co-chairperson of the Arizona Lawyer Representatives since 2018. Furthermore, Dale served as chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the State Bar of Arizona and is a member of the State Bar’s Bankruptcy and Business Law Sections. A thought-innovator in bankruptcy law, Dale was a founding member of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. He previously served on the Bankruptcy Advisory Commission to the Arizona Board of Legal Specialization.