About

When I was a practicing attorney, the primary focus of my practice was related to defending builders, developers, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals including architects and engineers in construction defect lawsuits. Even though I was often in the “defense” role, I was also almost always in the “prosecutorial” role because of the prevalence of competing claims and third party practices. But, I was never exclusively just on the “defense” side. I also regularly represented owners and institutional entities when they had claims that had be presented in relation to their projects. I always felt that by having both sides of the practice, my ability to represent the clients was enhanced. Plus, I don’t ever recall anyone telling me that I had to be either a defense attorney or a plaintiff attorney. To me, I was just an attorney doing what I could to help clients.

Over the course of 30 years, I was lead counsel on a number of Colorado’s largest multi-family construction defect trials, and I was regularly involved as lead counsel on Colorado’s largest construction defect lawsuits. As noted above, I also regularly assisted corporate, municipal, and private clients in prosecuting construction-related claims.

In addition to my construction law practice, I arbitrated and tried cases involving priority and foreclosure of mechanic’s liens, actions against landowners, landlord/tenant disputes, adjoining landowner disputes, premises liability actions, personal injury/wrongful death actions, and contract disputes. I always loved being a construction lawyer, but let’s face it, one can only take so many files involving whether dissimilar materials are properly joined together. So, to keep up my attention I welcomed other types of cases.

Before I began to focus on construction law, I acted as lead and co-counsel on numerous jury and court trials as well as many arbitrations under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

When I was in law school, I always felt that I was going to be a litigator. To help me with that I spent a good deal of time focusing on classes and projects that would be important to trial advocacy skills—this included my participation in the Moot Court. Eventually, I ended up as a member of the Moot Court Trial Advocacy team and Moot Court Board of Governors. Throughout my career, I continued to work with young people who wanted to have a career as attorneys by regularly participating as a panelist in state-sponsored Moot Court competitions.

Additionally, I was able to help my community by serving as the Colorado Bar Association’s Representative to the Joint Legislative Statutory Revision Committee a the Capitol from 2016 through 2020. I also served as a member of the Colorado Bar Association Construction Council from 2020 through the present.

I enjoyed working with a great many people during my legal career and am looking forward to continuing to work with them and others including, I hope you in my role as a neutral.