Rudy E. Verner

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Rudy Verner

Practice Areas

Litigation Environmental

Media and First Amendment

Experience

Rudy Verner is a member of the firm's commercial litigation and appellate practice groups. He represents clients in a broad range of commercial cases, including matters involving contractual and business relationships, insurance coverage, oil and gas and other natural resource issues. Mr. Verner is also one of a handful of attorneys in Colorado who practices in the area of Media and First Amendment law, counseling television stations and other media outlets on issues pertaining to court access, open records requests and libel and defamation.

Mr. Verner enhances BHGR's litigation and appeals teams with six years experience handling the same for the Denver law firm Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He also served as a law clerk for Judge Sandra I. Rothenberg on the Colorado Court of Appeals. In 2007, Mr. Verner was appointed to the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

At the University of Colorado School of Law, Mr. Verner was an associate editor on the University of Colorado Law Review and Managing Editor of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.

Mr. Verner is admitted to practice in Colorado before the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Education

  • Boston College, M.A., 2006
  • University of Colorado, J.D., 2002
  • Kenyon College, B.A., with honors, 1996

Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 2005
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2004
  • Colorado, 2002

Professional Associations

  • Colorado Bar Association, Appellate Practice Subcommittee

Reported Appellate Decisions

Civil
  • Level 3 Communications, LLC v. Liebert Corp., 535 F.3d 1146 (10th Cir. 2008) (on the briefs)
  • Morris v. Goodwin, 185 P.3d 777 (Colo. 2008) (on the briefs)
  • Old Republic Ins. Co. v. Ross, 180 P.3d 427 (Colo. 2008) (on the briefs)
  • Barrett v. Investment Management Consultants, Ltd., 190 P.3d 800 (Colo. App. 2008) (on the briefs)
  • Ross v. Old Republic Ins. Co., 134 P.3d 505 (Colo. App. 2006) (on the briefs)
  • State ex rel. Salazar v. General Steel Domestic Sales, LLC, 129 P.3d 1047 (Colo. App. 2005) (on the briefs)
Criminal
  • United States v. Darton, 595 F.3d 1191 (10th Cir. 2010)
  • United States v. Rollen, 355 Fed.Appx. 166, 2009 WL 4547798 (10th Cir. 2009) (unpublished)
  • Kilgore v. Attorney General of Colorado, 519 F.3d 1084 (10th Cir. 2008)
  • United States v. Rollen, 239 Fed.Appx. 451, 2007 WL 2372370 (10th Cir. 2007) (unpublished)
  • United States v. Flowers, 464 F.3d 1127 (10th Cir. 2006)

Published Work

  • "Short Term Solutions, Interim Surplus Guidelines, and the Future of the Colorado River Delta", Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, Colorado, 2003, Volume 14, p. 241.
  • Rudy E. Verner and Steven D. Zansberg. "Expanded Media Coverage in Colorado Courts", The Colorado Lawyer, September 2011, Volume 40, No. 9, p. 39-46. Read Article

Community Involvement

  • Legal Aid Foundation, Member, 2005 - 2010
  • Moot Court Volunteer Judge, University of Colorado and University of Denver, 2006 - present
  • Member, Colorado Conservation Voters, 2010 - present
  • Board of Directors, Bicycle Colorado, July 2011 - present

Pro Bono

  • Assisted Colorado's largest bicycle advocacy organization, Bicycle Colorado, in opposing City of Black Hawk's municipal bike ban, 2010

Honors & Awards

  • Rising Star Colorado Super Lawyer for 2012