The team that funds the fight

Dean Patti founded D.R. Patti & Associates in Las Vegas in 1991 and has spent every year since trying cases most firms settle early. He's recovered more than $400 million for injured Nevadans, earned a 10.0 "Superb" rating on Avvo, and is ranked among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the country.

What sets Dean apart isn't the résumé. It's what he does with it. When an insurance company's first offer isn't close to fair, Dean funds the fight himself. National experts, accident reconstruction, investigators, and however long it takes. And carries the financial risk personally. On one case, that meant nearly $800,000 and two years of work before it was resolved. On another, $1.5 million out of his own pocket on a workplace injury case. If a jury sees it the other way, that loss is his, not the client's.

He's also honest in a way a lot of firms in this business aren't. If a case isn't strong, Dean tells the client the truth instead of stringing them along. He won't help inflate a minor claim, and he won't touch a fraudulent one. After more than three decades of trial work, that posture shows in which cases he's willing to fight and how long he's willing to fight them.

The firm's senior team also includes attorneys with prior insurance-defense experience, which means D.R. Patti & Associates knows exactly how the other side builds its case before it's built.

Marc Naron is an associate attorney at D.R. Patti & Associates focused on personal injury litigation. He has practiced in Las Vegas for fifteen years.

His work spans personal injury, catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, and products liability. The same high-stakes matters where carriers fight hardest and where thorough investigation decides outcomes. He is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada (2010) and trained at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

Marc’s job is simple to say and hard to do: build the case the insurance company hopes you never put together.

Troy Clark is a former insurance-defense attorney with fourteen years of experience defending civil litigation cases before joining the injured person’s side of the table.

That background matters. He has built the case an insurance company makes against an injured client. Which means he knows how to take it apart. At D.R. Patti & Associates he brings that inside knowledge to serious injury claims where the first offer is almost never the right one.

A native Oregonian raised with California roots, Troy is part of the firm’s senior trial team that funds the fight when carriers say no.

Maria Loventime has been an attorney at D.R. Patti & Associates since 2001. More than two decades in this firm means she has seen how Nevada injury cases are won. And how they are lost when the investigation stops too early.

She has always been passionate about the law, justice, and advocacy for people who did not ask to be in a crash, a fall, or a medical disaster. Clients get a lawyer who already knows how this firm fights: carefully, aggressively when the facts support it, and without treating anyone like a file number.

Chris Cawlfield focuses on personal injury, catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injuries, medical malpractice, and complex civil litigation. He is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada (2015) and the Colorado State Bar (2012), and studied at the University of Colorado Boulder and University of La Verne College of Law.

Serious injuries demand more than a demand letter. Chris’s practice sits where medical proof, liability investigation, and long-horizon damages meet. The same terrain where D.R. Patti & Associates funds experts instead of settling for the first low offer.

David Bembas was part of the D.R. Patti & Associates family. We remember him with gratitude for the work he did on behalf of injured people, and we keep his place on this page so his contribution is not erased by time.

In loving memory, 1982–2023.