Mr. Arthofer graduated from the Pepperdine University School of Law in 1989, where he was named to the Dean’s Honor List and a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship Award. Mr. Arthofer began practicing law in Fresno, California in 1989. He then joined the Redding office of Borton, Petrini & Conron in 1991, where he was a litigation partner for several years until co-founding Harr, Arthofer and Ayres in 2001. He formed the Arthofer & Tonkin Law Offices in 2009.

Mr. Arthofer’s areas of specialty include personal injury, insurance defense, construction contract disputes, construction defects, professional liability, real estate disputes and realtor errors and omissions. Mr. Arthofer has been the lead trial attorney for cases venued in Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Butte, Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino counties, and has an impressive track record of obtaining favorable verdicts for clients.

Mr. Arthofer is a long-standing member of the California Bar Association, past President of the Shasta–Trinity Counties Bar Association, past President of the Shasta Claims Association, admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, as well as the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.