About Dale 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 party’s underlying objectives when working to resolve complicated matters without the time, expense, and delay associated with a trial.