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Phil Pearlman has decades of experience in all areas of bankruptcy law, with an emphasis on bankruptcy administration and bankruptcy litigation.  Specifically, he has represented creditors, post-petition lenders, creditors’ committees, Chapter 7 trustees, and Chapter 11 trustees in hundreds of cases from 1981 forward.

Mr. Pearlman received a B.A. degree in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975 and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1980.  Mr. Pearlman is admitted to practice before all courts of the State of Colorado, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Pearlman is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Faculty of Federal Advocates, the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, and he is rated “AV-Preeminent” (5.0 out of 5) from Martindale-Hubbell.

Practice Areas

• Bankruptcy
• Member of our Special Assets Restructuring Group

Education

• University of Virginia (J.D. 1980)
• University of Colorado at Boulder (B.A. Physics, 1975)

Admitted to Practice

• All Colorado Courts
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Grimshaw & Harring represents creditors, trustees, purchasers, creditors’ committees, post-petition lenders, and other interested parties in all areas of bankruptcy administration and bankruptcy litigation.  We have attorneys who are admitted to practice before all courts of the State of Colorado, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, who have appeared in hundreds of cases since 1981.  For more information about our Bankruptcy practice, please contact Philip A. Pearlman.

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Our water lawyers have secured decrees for complicated augmentation plans for the Denver Technological Center and other Southeast Denver Metropolitan area special districts. They represented the Douglas County Water Resource Authority in implementing a conjunctive use project that enjoys unprecedented West Slope/East Slope/Denver Water Board/State Engineer cooperation, to augment the water supplies of water districts and metropolitan districts in Douglas County. They also represent the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, which presently provides water and wastewater services to a significant part of the population of Arapahoe County.

Attorneys serving Water Law

• Frank McNulty

Our insurance coverage attorneys are regularly called upon to advise other counsel seeking the firm’s particular insurance coverage expertise, including in-house corporate attorneys and general counsel, insurance defense lawyers, legislators considering new laws, city and county attorneys, environmental attorneys, and general practitioners representing businesses and individuals. We are regularly called upon to represent out-of-state clients because of our unique experience, and we serve as counsel for a wide variety of public entities and private companies, including agricultural products companies, aircraft manufacturers, cities and counties, commercial landlords, construction companies, dry cleaners, environmental consulting firms, lenders, mining companies, real estate developers, ski area owners, wastewater treatment plants, and water and sanitation districts.

For more information about our insurance coverage practice, please contact William J. Brady.

Litigation and Appeals Related Areas

• Antitrust and Competition Law
• Appeals
• Business Litigation
• Class Actions
• Construction Litigation
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation

Our litigators have extensive construction related litigation experience in both state and federal courts. Our attorneys have litigated cases involving construction and design defects, pay disputes, site conditions, delays, backcharges, interference, mechanic’s liens, bidding and mistakes.We have represented clients involved on all sides of construction litigations, including municipal, corporate and individual property owners and developers, general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers and lenders.

Please see the construction law section of our website regarding our general experience in construction law matters.

Litigation and Appeals Related Areas

• Antitrust and Competition Law
• Appeals
• Business Litigation
• Class Actions
• Construction Litigation
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation

For more information about our antitrust and competition law practice, please contact Todd R. Seelman.

Litigation and Appeals Related Areas

• Antitrust and Competition Law
• Appeals
• Business Litigation
• Class Actions
• Construction Litigation
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation

• performing and assisting with due diligence requirements or completing environmental audits
• representing stakeholders in CERCLA (Superfund) and RCRA enforcement actions
• litigating environmental damage coverage disputes on behalf of policyholders against insurance companies
• recreating insurance coverage for multi-year/multi-site PRPs when policies are lost
• participating in rulemaking hearings concerning water quality standards
• advising clients concerning compliance and litigation regarding NEPA requirements
• advising clients on requirements for the transportation of hazardous materials
• participating in EPA-sponsored conferences on Superfund/RCRA and setting standards for the disposal of sewage sludge
• advising clients on the removal of leaking underground storage tanks and advocating for reimbursement from the state fund
• obtaining water decrees establishing water rights
• drafting product exemption laws for trade associations at the state or local level * investigating toxic releases contaminating property

Many of our environmental attorneys represent clients at high profile Superfund sites in Colorado and throughout the western United States, including the Lowry Landfill, the Rocky Flats former nuclear weapons production facility, the Stead Solvent Site in northwestern Nevada, and the Heartland of America site in Nebraska.

We have successfully litigated the three precedent-setting cases establishing the right of Colorado insurance policyholders to recover environmental damages under business policies.

Our attorneys have participated in White House conferences on CERCLA (Superfund), testified on behalf of clients in both houses of Congress, taught environmental courses at law schools and universities, and served as counsel for numerous public entities and private companies, from agricultural products companies to aircraft manufacturers, cities and counties to commercial landlords, citizens groups to engineering and environmental cleanup firms, dry cleaners to lenders, real estate developers to ski area owners, and wastewater treatment plants to water and sanitation districts.

Attorneys serving Environmental Law

• Brady, William J.

• McNulty, Frank

Also visit our section on Insurance Litigation.

Our attorneys have tried or settled dozens of cases involving Denver International Airport (DIA), E-470 Public Highway Authority’s toll road around Denver, the Colorado Department of Transportation’s project to expand Interstate 25 (T-REX), and various FasTracks projects.  We have represented private landowners in various urban renewal projects.  We have advanced many of Colorado’s significant public improvement projects, dating back to the acquisition of rights of way for Colorado’s major interstate highways.  We have also acquired property for open space, recreation, drainage improvement projects, water pipelines, city halls, roadways, schools and even a county jail.

Our eminent domain practice also includes appellate work: we have appeared in eminent domain cases in the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court over thirty times.  Our lawyers are also frequent lecturers at continuing legal education seminars as well as conferences and seminars relating to land use, planning, trial techniques and appraisal methodology. 

Attorneys serving Eminent Domain

• Jamie N. Cotter

See also

• Real Estate Litigation
• Land Use Litigation

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Phil Quatrochi’s practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation and commercial transactions, including contract disputes, construction law and real estate.  He commonly litigates cases before both state and federal courts in Colorado, and has litigated disputes involving complex commercial litigation, intellectual property, real estate and leases, construction law matters, property disputes, collections, municipal law, banking matters, and union fee disputes. His construction law experience includes drafting and negotiating construction contracts, representing clients in mechanic’s liens and governmental construction project bond disputes, and construction-related litigation.

Phil’s corporate experience includes advising for-profit and non-profit entities on a broad range of business matters, including formation and dissolution, contracts, acquisitions, property and leasing issues, commercial financings and employment issues.  He also advises on employment related matters.

Phil’s real estate experience includes drafting and negotiating real estate contracts and leases, and client representation before planning and design review boards.

Phil was a summer clerk at Grimshaw & Harring in 1995, joined the firm as an associate in 1996, and became a director/shareholder in 2004.  He grew up in Boulder, Colorado and was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1996, and in Colorado in 1997.  Phil lives with his wife Ali, son Cooper and daughter Macy in Denver.  Phil currently spends most of his spare energy training for marathons, including the upcoming Boston Marathon.

Practice Areas

• Litigation and Appeals
• Construction Litigation
• Construction Law
• Business and Finance

Education

• Boston College (B.A., English & Economics, magna cum laude 1992; J.D., cum laude, 1996)
• Boston College London Program, Kings College of Law, 1996

Community Service

• Adjunct Lecturer on Construction Law issues, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado at Denver, 2005-2007
• Member of and legal counsel to the Ultimate Players Association , a Colorado non-profit corporation

Memberships

• Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations

Reported Cases

• Cross Country Land Services, Inc. v. PB Network Services, Inc. 2005 WL 3591868, (D.Colo., 2005)
• Santa Fe Trail Ranches Property Owners Ass’n v. Simpson, 990 P.2d 46 (Colo., 1999)
• Fell v. Independent Ass’n of Continental Pilots, 26 F.Supp.2d 1272 (D.Colo., 1998)
• Fell v. Continental Airlines, Inc., 990 F.Supp. 1265 (D.Colo.,1998)

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Ms. Mayers practices in the areas of real estate (with an emphasis on community associations), insurance coverage disputes, employment law, civil and commercial litigation and collections.  In her practice, she acts as general counsel to a large number of condominium, townhome, single family, resort and mixed-use developments, and she provides counsel to special districts that have been assigned design review and covenant enforcement powers.  As part of her litigation practice, Lisa represents insurance policyholders in disputes with their insurance carriers and personal injury plaintiffs.  She litigates cases before state and federal courts in Colorado, as well as the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Lisa K. Mayers is a Colorado native, and was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1993, and the United States District Court, District of Colorado in 1994.

Practice Areas

• Litigation and Appeals
• Bankruptcy
• Community Associations
• Member of our Special Assets Restructuring Group
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Employment Law

Education

• University of Denver (J.D. 1993). Phi Alpha Delta
• The Colorado College (B.A., Economics, 1989)
• Kansai Gaidai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan (1987)

Publications & Presentations

• Securing Debt and Borrowing Money By a Homeowners’ Association, 2004 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, Community Associations Institute, Rocky Mountain Chapter.
• City of Littleton, Wallis and Insurance for Multi-Year Liability Claims, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers, 29 Colo. Law. 5 (Feb. 2000). The authors are coverage counsel who represented the City of Littleton in City of Littleton v. Compass Insurance, both in the trial court and before the Colorado Supreme Court.
•  Recovery of Non-Economic Damages in Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer Cases, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers, 27 Colo. Law. 95 (Nov. 1998). Physicians in Colorado may be liable for emotional distress damages if they fall below the legal standard of care in failing to aggressively pursue and definitively diagnose symptoms of cancer or other life-threatening diseases in a timely and responsible manner. So long as an increased risk of harm develops from the unchecked growth of cancer [even though the risk is unlikely to materialize], medical malpractice plaintiffs in Colorado have a cause of action for emotional distress resulting from a delayed diagnosis. This article examines the recent opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court in Boryla v. Pash and its likely impact on physicians and patients in Colorado.1 The authors represented the plaintiff both at trial and through both levels of appeal.

Memberships and Community Service

• Colorado and Denver Bar Associations
• Community Associations Institute, Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
• Woman’s Educational Society of The Colorado College, Former Board Member

Reported Cases

• Kerns v. Kerns, 2002 WL 1050471 (Colo. 2002)
• Compass Insurance Co. v. City of Littleton, 984 P.2d 606 (Colo. 1999)
• Boryla v. Pash, 960 P.2d 123 (Colo. 1998)
• Englewood v. Commercial Union Assur. Cos., 940 P.2d 948 (Colo. App. 1996)
• Boryla v. Pash, 937 P.2d 813 (Colo. App. 1996)