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About Anthony Banker
Anthony Banker is a trial lawyer who devotes his practice to helping people who have been injured or exploited. Over the past 20 years, he has litigated several hundred cases involving negligence, maritime injuries, wrongful death, product liability, insurance bad faith, professional liability, lender liability, and fraud. Anthony graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington. He was awarded a Dean's Honors Scholarship and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Gonzaga Law Review.
He is admitted to practice law in the courts of Alabama, Alaska, and Tennessee. Most cases are resolved through negotiation and mediation, but Anthony also routinely tries cases to judges and juries throughout Alaska. He has also tried cases in Tennessee and Alabama. Anthony has been appointed to serve as an arbitrator in cases brought by other lawyers and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Alaska, Anchorage where he taught a course in civil litigation.
He was also named to the Board of Directors for the Anchorage Bar Association. Anthony feels particularly honored to represent working men and women and their families, as he comes from “working family” roots. He spent summers working as a laborer with a concrete form erector crew and put himself through college working as many as three jobs at a time.
Anthony frequently sees working people lose the ability to work because of their injuries. He believes that injured workers need reliable personal injury lawyers to help them recover the compensation they are legally owed. Insurance companies do everything they can to stop that from happening, but Anthony is committed to securing favorable outcomes for his clients.
Proven verdicts and settlements
On July 1, 2018 Aaron Thomas Smith of Eagle River died on the Seward Highway when Alaska State Trooper Richard Chambers, spotting a speeding car going the other way, braked hard and pulled a U-turn across the highway in front of him. Troopers first blamed vehicles following too closely. In depositions, department officials conceded U-turn training was optional at the academy and Chambers had never had any in the field. The state's own settlement memo concluded it was liable. The State of Alaska settled with his widow for $3,000,000 in 2023.
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