McDowell Shaw Garcia & Patton is a preeminent trial and litigation law firm that excels in the defense and prosecution of lawsuits on behalf of corporate, municipal, and individual clients. The firm represents clients in legal matters ranging from suspicious first and third-party claims to complex litigation in the areas of personal and catastrophic injury, business, product liability and professional malpractice.
With over 200 years of combined legal experience, our attorneys are committed to a simple philosophy: to provide each client with high-quality, prompt, responsive and cost-effective legal services.
With over 200 years of combined legal experience, our attorneys are committed to a simple philosophy: to provide each client with high-quality, prompt, responsive and cost-effective legal services.
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McDowell Shaw Garcia & Patton has earned the prestigious AV peer-review rating by the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory. The firm draws upon the comprehensive background and experience of ten attorneys to provide effective client representation in insurance defense litigation, including personal injury, products liability, professional liability, construction defects and business/commercial litigation.
David A. McDowell has practiced law in excess of thirty years. During that period, he has tried more than 75 civil and criminal jury trials throughout Northern California.
He has been the President of the Northern California Fraud Investigators Association and has given numerous presentations to insurance-related organizations, including, but not limited to, the Northern California Fraud Investigators Association, International Association of Special Investigations Units (IASIU), Claims & Litigation Management Alliance and California Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters.
He has been the President of the Northern California Fraud Investigators Association and has given numerous presentations to insurance-related organizations, including, but not limited to, the Northern California Fraud Investigators Association, International Association of Special Investigations Units (IASIU), Claims & Litigation Management Alliance and California Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters.
Ms. Shaw graduated from John F. Kennedy University in 1984 and joined a small insurance defense firm in Oakland. The firm name changed the following year to McGraw & Shaw. Ms. Shaw litigated a wide variety of third party insurance defense matters. Her practice included defending insureds in personal injury and wrongful death claims arising from auto accidents, slip & falls, general premises liability, assault and battery and molestation cases.
Chris Patton is a trial specialist with 70 civil jury trials to verdict. He is the lead trial attorney and managing attorney of the Southern California operations of McDowell Shaw Garcia & Patton. For more than 20 years Mr. Patton has specialized in Special Investigation Unit (SIU) litigation. He has tried more than 40 SIU trials.
Marvin Amoroso is an attorney in the firm's Ontario office. Mr. Amoroso's legal career began over 25 years ago as an insurance defense litigation paralegal. He decided to further his career by going to law school. Mr. Amoroso has been practicing law for over 16 years and he is an experienced trial attorney, with a focus on Civil Litigation Defense, representing insurance companies and their insureds in first-party and third-party cases.
