Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq. is a trial lawyer in Portland, Oregon. He has individually, and in cooperation with other law firms, obtained settlements and verdicts for his clients in excess of $1 Billion. He has the largest compensatory damage verdict in Oregon history - $77,523,748.93. DeShaw is a recipient of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association's Presidential Award for lifetime achievement in the field of law. He has been selected as 1 of less than 100 members of the American Board of Trial Advocates in Oregon. DeShaw is also a Fellow of the International College of Chiropractic - the most prestigious award in the field of Chiropractic and is believed to be one of two lawyers to ever receive the award.DeShaw is the leading author in the U.S. on the subject of bodily injury assessment programs used by insurance companies for evaluating personal injury claims (Colossus, Liability Navigator, ClaimIQ). DeShaw is author of three books, book chapters, and multiple videos on traumatic injuries, trial practice, and insurance. In the past he has served as a resource for national media such as CNN, MSNBC, BusinessWeek, A.M. Best, on the topic of insurance. He lectures for lawyers and doctors including past lectures for Trial Guides, the North American Brain Injury Society, AAJ, Brain Injury Association of California, Spine Research Institute of San Diego, and the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, as well as private seminars for the nation’s top insurance bad faith lawyers. DeShaw handles bad faith and class action cases against insurers for fraud against their policyholders. He also handles a small number of serious personal injury cases including brain injury cases, amputation cases, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death claims. He is a former board member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, an organization made up of doctors, lawyers, therapists, and brain injury survivors, working to better the life of those sustaining brain injuries.DeShaw is also the founder of Trial Guides, America's leading litigation publisher. During his time running the company DeShaw developed Trial Guides from a startup to a leading legal publisher, including a period as the publisher for the American Association for Justice. Most recently, DeShaw is co-founder of Settlement Intelligence, a legal AI company that helps personal injury lawyers optimize settlement proposals letters to insurers ("demand letters") to maximize a lawyer's settlement offer based upon the insurer's bodily injury claim assessment software.