Anthony M. Sholty

Anthony M. Sholty
Attorney
907.523.6125
907.586.8090 fax

asholty@faulknerbanfield.com

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Profile

Mr. Sholty joined Faulkner Banfield in 1977 after serving as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Ketchikan. His practice emphasizes litigation, including bad faith defense, products liability, medical and other professional malpractice defense and general insurance defense. Mr. Sholty has appeared in federal and state courts throughout Alaska and in other jurisdictions. The cases he has handled have involved a variety of issues, including, among others:

Multi-million dollar punitive damages and bad faith claims, including obtaining the reversal of a $16 million dollar punitive damages award

Airplane accident fatalities

Overseeing the handling of an insurance claim involving arson and multiple deaths

Closure of a seafood processing plant

Insurance coverage

Wrongful death

Professional Associations
and Charitable Activities

Mr. Sholty is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section), the Alaska Bar Association and the Juneau Bar Association. He has served on the Alaska Bar Association's Civil Pattern Jury Instruction, Bar History and Legal Educational Opportunities committees, and as a faculty member at the University of Alaska, Southeast. Mr. Sholty currently serves on the Board of Directors of JAMHI (Juneau Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Inc.). He has also served on the Juneau Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, the City and Borough of Juneau’s ad hoc committee on mayoral salary, the City Museum’s History Grant Committee, and as a volunteer coach for youth basketball and soccer teams.

Past Employment

City of Ketchikan, Alaska, Assistant City Attorney,
1976 - 1977

Education

J.D. 1976
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law

B.A. History 1972
Columbia University
New York, New York

Birth Information

1951, New York, New York

Representative Clients

Aetna US HealthCare

Alaska National Insurance Company

Norcal

CNA

North Pacific Seafood Processors, Inc.

Conseco

Bartlett Regional Hospital

Mannington Mills

Ace USA

City of Ketchikan

Mr. Sholty joined Faulkner Banfield in 1977 after serving as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Ketchikan. His practice emphasizes litigation, including bad faith defense, products liability, medical and other professional malpractice defense and general insurance defense. Mr. Sholty has appeared in federal and state courts throughout Alaska and in other jurisdictions. The cases he has handled have involved a variety of issues, including, among others:

Multi-million dollar punitive damages and bad faith claims, including obtaining the reversal of a $16 million dollar punitive damages award
Airplane accident fatalities
Overseeing the handling of an insurance claim involving arson and multiple deaths
Closure of a seafood processing plant
Insurance coverage
Wrongful death

Professional Associations
and Charitable Activities

Mr. Sholty is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section), the Alaska Bar Association and the Juneau Bar Association. He has served on the Alaska Bar Association's Civil Pattern Jury Instruction, Bar History and Legal Educational Opportunities committees, and as a faculty member at the University of Alaska, Southeast. Mr. Sholty currently serves on the Board of Directors of JAMHI (Juneau Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Inc.). He has also served on the Juneau Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, the City and Borough of Juneau’s ad hoc committee on mayoral salary, the City Museum’s History Grant Committee, and as a volunteer coach for youth basketball and soccer teams.