Academy Member Inducted 2026

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Daniel Torrens, Mediator & Arbitrator, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Daniel Torrens

Rusing Lopez Lizardi
7047 E. Greenway Pkwy.
Suite 400
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Tel: (480) 712-0562
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Member of the Arizona Chapter for Mediation & Arbitration

Regularly travels out of state to: Colorado

Other ADR Services: ADR Training/CME, Court-Appointed Neutral (Special Master), Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Facilitation & Systems Design, Fact Finding, Insurance Umpire, Med-Arb, Mini-Trial Judge
Video Conferencing
Available
  • Practice Commenced2006
  • # of MEDS (as of 13/1/26)125
  • # of ARBS (as of 13/1/26)200
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
  • FLAGSTAFF
  • PHOENIX/SCOTTSDALE
  • PRESCOTT
  • SIERRA VISTA
  • TUCSON
  • YUMA

Biographical

An Associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Dan has practiced law since 1996. He has first-chair experience in more than 30 state and federal civil jury trials and more than 250 arbitration hearings. Areas of practice include personal injury, and wrongful death, civil conspiracy, contract disputes, insurance bad faith, insurance coverage, legal malpractice, and medical malpractice,. Dan has successfully argued before the Arizona Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Dan is also routinely engaged as a private mediator and arbitrator.

For the State Bar of Arizona, Dan presently serves as the co-chair for the Arizona College of Trial Advocacy (an intensive five-day workshop teaching lawyers), as an arbitrator for the Fee Arbitration Program (adjudicating fee disputes between clients and attorneys), and on the Civil Jury Instructions Committee (updating the Revised Arizona Jury Instructions - Civil). 

A Pennsylvania native who moved to Arizona in 1984, Dan graduated from Arizona State University in 1992 with a degree in political science and earned his law degree at the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1996. Dan has earned the AV-Preeminent rating with Martindale-Hubbell®, and is a four-time Super Lawyers honoree.


Case Experience

  • Agricultural
  • Arts (Fine/Performing)
  • Business Dissolution
  • Civil Rights
  • Commercial/Business
  • Construction
  • Consumer Fraud
  • Contract Disputes
  • Debt Collections
  • Education
  • Employment
  • ERISA
  • Insurance
  • Landlord/Tenant
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Libel & Slander
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Partnerships
  • Personal Injury
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Professional Fees
  • Professional Liability
  • Professional Malpractice
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property Damage
  • Railroad & Trucking
  • Real Estate
  • Religious Institutions
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Title Disputes
  • Torts
  • Trusts / Estates
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Wrongful Death

Education

  • Arizona College of Trial Advocacy, 1999
  • University of Nebraska College of Law, J.D., 1996
  • Arizona State University, B.A., 1992

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Arizona College of Trial Advocacy - Chair
  • Fee Arbitration Program Arbitrator - State Bar of Arizona
  • Civil Jury Instructions Committee - State Bar of Arizona
  • Arizonans for an Independent Judiciary - Member
  • American Board of Trial Advocates, Associate Member
  • American Motorcycle Association, Member
  • Scottsdale Bar Association, Member
  • National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals 

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