Mr. Arthofer graduated from the Pepperdine University School of Law in 1989, where he was named to the Dean’s Honor List and a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship Award. Mr. Arthofer began practicing law with a civil litigation firm in Fresno, California in 1989. He then returned to his roots in Shasta County, joining the Redding office of Borton, Petrini & Conron in 1991, a state-wide insurance defense law firm with more than 100 attorneys at the time. Mr. Arthofer was a litigation partner for several years with Borton, Petrini, & Conron until co-founding Harr, Arthofer & Ayres in 2001. He formed the Arthofer & Tonkin Law Offices with longtime colleague and friend Griff Tonkin in 2009.
Mr. Arthofer’s areas of specialty include serious personal injuries, motor vehicle accidents, wrongful death, and premises liability cases. He also handles matters involving insurance defense, real estate disputes, construction litigation, professional liability, and realtor errors and omissions. Mr. Arthofer has been the lead trial attorney for cases venued in Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Butte, Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties, and has an impressive track record of obtaining favorable verdicts. He has obtained multiple millions of dollars in recoveries for his clients.
Mr. Arthofer is a long-standing member of the California Bar Association, past President of the Shasta–Trinity Counties Bar Association, past President of the Shasta Claims Association, admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
