Trials & Appeals
As a go-to litigation team for leading businesses in the Rocky Mountains and across the nation, Davis Graham trial lawyers regularly handle and successfully resolve complex and sophisticated business disputes. Our trial attorneys are battle tested. We try state and federal, civil and criminal cases for clients of all sizes before juries, courts, arbitrators, and administrative hearings officers – in Colorado and throughout the country.
Clients frequently entrust Davis Graham trial attorneys with high-stakes and high-value business disputes across a range of industries and subject matters, including energy and natural resources, environmental/toxic tort, catastrophic personal injury, technology and telecommunications, white collar defense and investigations, property rights, securities, bankruptcy, and intellectual property. With a team of more than 40 trial lawyers, clients benefit from our bench strength and the specialized knowledge each individual attorney carries.
Davis Graham trial teams combine the sophistication and expertise usually only found at much larger firms with the adaptiveness and efficiency-mindset gained from serving clients of all sizes on cases across a range of values. Far different than the one-size-fits-all approach found in many trial practices, Davis Graham teams develop with their clients a strategic approach tailored to each case to maximize the clients’ business objectives.
The Davis Graham Trial & Appellate Group is frequently recognized for its trial achievements and has been ranked as a top commercial litigation team in Colorado by Chambers & Partners for 20 years. Over 90% of Davis Graham trial partners have been recognized and honored for their excellence with rankings in Chambers & Partners, Benchmark Litigation, Colorado Super Lawyers, or Best Lawyers in America.
Appellate
When Davis Graham clients become involved in an appeal – either as a party to the appeal or as a “friend of the court” – they rely on a core group of DGS lawyers who possess specialized appellate experience and outstanding analytical, brief writing, and oral advocacy skills. Our attorneys have argued on appeal in a number of industries a wide variety of complex legal issues, including administrative procedure, advertising, arbitration, commercial leases, constitutional law, construction, contracts, employment discrimination, environmental cleanup, evidence, fraud, insurance, land use, the Lanham Act, legal malpractice, libel and slander, medical malpractice, mining, patents, pension benefits, personal injury, products liability, property tax, public utility regulation, railroads, sanctions, securities, shareholder derivative actions, ski resorts, sales, telecommunications and use tax, trademarks, and unfair competition.
Our appellate attorneys work closely with Davis Graham trial lawyers to anticipate issues that may arise on appeal. This partnership includes identifying and providing advice on major issues, drafting and arguing pre- and post-trial motions, and participating in trial as monitoring counsel, which can include arguing motions and jury instructions. They also undertake appellate monitoring and appeals in cases that are being handled or have been handled by another firm at the trial level. Our appellate lawyers routinely pursue or defend interlocutory appeals, provide strategic advice on issues throughout the course of a case, advise on preserving a trial record for appeal, participate in trial as monitoring counsel, draft appellate briefs, and make oral arguments in federal and state appellate courts.
