Contact:
- ________________________
Practice Areas:
- Civil Litigation
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Clerkships:
- Hon. Justice Nancy E. Rice, Colorado Supreme Court
- ________________________
Education:
- J.D., University of Colorado
School of Law - Associate Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
- Dufford & Brown Legal Writing Award
- B.A., Brown University
- magna cum laude
National Merit Scholar
Phi Beta Kappa - ________________________
Bar & Court Admissions:
- State of Colorado
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
Farrell Allen Carfield
Associate
At Reilly Pozner LLP, we are creative team players—on both offense and defense. We proudly represent both plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil and criminal litigation in courts around the country. Farrell Allen Carfield is a litigation associate with the firm.
Farrell focuses her practice on civil and commercial litigation. Before joining Reilly Pozner, she served as judicial law clerk to the Hon. Nancy E. Rice of the Colorado Supreme Court—where she gained valuable research and writing experience as well as exposure to diverse areas of civil and criminal litigation.
Farrell holds a law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law, where she received an award for her legal writing and served as associate editor on the University of Colorado Law Review. While in law school, she commuted to Boulder from her (then) home in the Colorado mountain town of Steamboat Springs.
In Steamboat Springs, Farrell served internships with the City Attorney’s Office and the State Office of the Public Defender. After graduation from law school, she was an associate with a boutique local practice in Steamboat Springs, where she handled litigation as well as transactional matters. She relocated to Denver with her family in 2007.
Farrell earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in public policy from Brown University, and had a successful career in this field before deciding to attend law school. She was a summer intern at the White House in Washington, D.C. After graduation, she held a number of positions with public policy and business strategy consultancies, including the London office of SJS Advisors—where she worked closely with Ira Magaziner, a policy advisor in the Clinton administration.
Farrell is on the trial team for these cases:
When The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company noticed that its financial advisers (and their contact databases) were being aggressively recruited by the competition in what looked like coordinated campaigns, VALIC retained Reilly Pozner as national counsel to protect its trade secrets and enforce its non-competition agreements in courts around the country. Thanks to the firm’s skillful use of temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, VALIC has seen a significant decrease in unfair competition by its former employees and a significant decrease in competitor recruitment.
Reilly Pozner has been approved by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy court to act as Lehman’s national coordinating and lead trial counsel in prosecuting claims against mortgage loan originators that sold Lehman defective loans. Farrell is part of the ten-lawyer team in this significant representation – involving more than 100 cases in 26 states.
Central Parking Systems is suing a number of rental car companies, claiming that these companies should be required to pay the fines for cars rented by individuals who park in its lots but fail to pay. In this ongoing case, Reilly Pozner is defending DTG Systems, which owns the Dollar and Thrifty rental car franchises.
“I have gained considerable perspective from the interesting places I have lived and worked. I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, where my dad is a politically active attorney. I attended Little Rock Central High School – an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement. I went to school on the East Coast and worked in Italy, London and New York as well as the small-town environment of Steamboat Springs before finding a home in Denver.”