Dale Martin Dorfmeier is Of-Counsel in the offices of Petrie Leath Larrivee & O’Rourke, LLP. Mr. Dorfmeier focuses his practice in Agricultural related claims, which involve the areas of tort defense, products liability, pesticide litigation, and business litigation. In particular, he has extensive expertise in agricultural pesticides and litigation, including pesticide uses, crop damages, toxic torts, property damage, bodily injury, and environmental defense. Mr. Dorfmeier also has considerable experience with aviation (as it relates to crop dusting defense), realtor errors and omissions, professional liability, property rights and transactions, trucking accidents, corporation and partnership formation, and estate planning. He has handled civil appeals and writs, OSHA appeals, and administrative appeals. Two of Mr. Dorfmeier’s appeals resulted in new legal precedents: Horton v. Superior Court dealt with good faith settlements and Pioneer v. R.M. Wade dealt with indemnity rights and good faith settlements.
A Fresno native, Mr. Dorfmeier received his undergraduate degree from California State University, Fresno, graduating magna cum laude in 1972. He earned his J.D. from the San Joaquin College of Law in 1977 and has also completed several post-graduate courses in taxation at University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. Mr. Dorfmeier is admitted to practice law in California, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California. He is a member of the Fresno County Bar Association.
Mr. Dorfmeier is also a writer and has served as a college instructor for the State Center Community College District.