Aaron DeShaw Esq., DC
Attorney and Chiropractor
Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C.
Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq. is an award winning trial lawyer based in Portland, Oregon. He is one of few lawyers in Oregon to be awarded the Presidential Award by the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association for lifetime achievement in the field of law. He is one of less than 100 Oregon lawyers and judges selected for the American Board of Trial Advocates, and has been named to Super Lawyers (the Top 5% of Oregon lawyers) in multiple years. He is the leading author in the U.S. on the subject of insurance bodily injury claim software (including Colossus, Liability Navigator and ClaimIQ), the computer software systems used by most auto insurers in the United States for evaluating personal injury claims. In the past, Dr. DeShaw has served as a resource for media such as CNN, MSNBC, BusinessWeek, A.M. Best, and other national media on the topic of insurance claims practices.
DeShaw is considered one of the most influential plaintiff lawyers in the United States through his legal publishing company Trial Guides; "Trial Guides and its founder, Aaron DeShaw, have armed, honed, and inspired more plaintiff's attorneys than anything else this century." Leading trial consultant David Ball Ph.D., author of the landmark legal books David Ball on Damages, Reptile, and Damages Evolving.
Aaron holds a Doctorate of Chiropractic from Western States Chiropractic College and a Juris Doctorate from Willamette University College of Law. As a doctor, he practiced in five countries treating people from over 100 nations. He has lectured for both physician and legal professionals including for Trial Guides, the American Association for Justice (AAJ), The Association of Trial Lawyers of America ("ATLA"), Torts Made Perfect, 360 Advocacy, multiple state Trial lawyer Associations, the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS), The Brain Injury Association of California, the Spine Research Institute of San Diego’s Annual CRASH seminar (involving live subject crash testing), the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, as well as private seminars before the nation’s top insurance bad faith lawyers. He has lectured at events alongside Brian O’Neill (President of the Insurance Institute on Highway Safety, and creator of the US crash testing program for vehicles), Eugene Anderson (called “The Dean of Policyholder’s attorneys” by BusinessWeek), Rick Friedman (Past President of the Inner Circle of Advocates, and best selling legal author), Bill Barton, Mark Lanier, Dr. Art Croft (the first author of a book on "whiplash" injuries, Dr. Muriel Lezak (author of the leading book on neuropsychology), Dr. Erin Bigler (brain imaging pioneer) and many other internationally recognized experts in the area of insurance, law, traumatic brain injury, motor vehicle collision mechanics, and medicine. Aaron DeShaw no longer practices as a doctor, and has practiced law full time since 2000.