Diane F. Vallentine

Experience

Ms. Vallentine’s experience covers a broad range of matters, including:

• Serving as lead counsel or sole counsel on numerous cases involving contract disputes, fraud, corporate dissolutions, foreclosures, partnership/shareholder disputes, employment issues, real estate, secured lending, banking law and collection issues.
• Handling hundreds of cases to final resolution by settlement, mediation, dispositive court decision and trial.
• Acting as an expert witness in cases involving corporate dissolutions and shareholder rights, commercial transactions, and bankruptcy law.

Ms. Vallentine has been an active and visible member of the Alaska litigation scene for four decades. Through the years she has served as President of the Alaska Bar Association, the Anchorage Bar Association and the Alaska Academy of Trial Lawyers. Ms. Vallentine has also been honored with the Anchorage Bar Association Distinguished Service Award.  She has served as a trustee to the Alaska Bar Foundation for five years.

Martindale – Hubbell AV Preeminent for over twenty years. For over ten years, Ms. Vallentine has been listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” in arbitration, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights, commercial litigation and personal injury litigation.  She has been selected for inclusion in Alaska Super Lawyers for 2016.

Ms. Vallentine speaks regularly on a range of topics related to commercial litigation, bankruptcy and ethics.

Memberships

American Bar Association

Alaska Bar Association

• Former Board Member, President