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Education:

  • J.D., University of Denver College Of Law, 1981 Recipient, Moot Court Barrister's Cup for Distinguished Achievement in Oral Advocacy
  • B.A., magna cum laude, Michigan State University, 1975
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  • Admitted to the Following State and Federal Bars:

    • Federal

    U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

    U.S. Supreme Court

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  • State
  • Colorado
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  • Professional Affiliations:
  • American College of Trial Lawyers
  • American Board of Trial Advocates
  • American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section)
  • Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
  • Colorado Bar Association
  • Denver Bar Association
  • William E. Doyle American Inns of Court
    (Founding Member and Past President)
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  • Lectures:
  • "Opening Statement and Demonstrative Evidence,"Colorado Bar Association's Litigation Boot Camp II, 2008
  • "What to Do When a Commercial Case Comes into Your Office," CTLA Conference, 2008
  • “E-Discovery in Colorado Courts," Colorado Judicial Conference,
    2008
  • “Five Ethical Land Mines You Really Want to Avoid in
    E-Discovery,”     AIG American
    General Life Insurance Company Law Conference – Houston 2007
  • “Issues of Admissibility Raised by Electronically Stored Information,” Colorado Judicial Conference, 2007
  • “Using Your Opponent’s Witness to Build Your Theory of the Case,”
    NOLHGA Annual Legal Seminar, 2007
  • “Changing Horses: The Efficient Transition to New/Additional Counsel During Litigation" and "The Corporation in Litigation:
    Developing the Allure of David Using the Strength of Goliath,”     Clifton Gunderson’s General
    Counsel Forum, 2007
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Dan Reilly

Partner

 

Dan Reilly has nearly 30 years experience around the country in courtrooms and before juries around the country. Dan is a founding partner of the firm. He has been lead counsel for a broad spectrum of complex multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation matters – including both the prosecution and defense of significant class actions/mass torts for individuals and major corporations. The cases have been throughout the United States including; Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Dan is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In recognition of his skill and accomplishments at trial, he has regularly been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in three separate categories—Bet the Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Personal Injury. He has also regularly been named in Colorado Super Lawyers magazine (Top 3 in 2005) and he appears in America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals, Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers and Who’s Who in American Law. Dan was named 2009 Colorado Lawyer of the Year for Bet the Company Litigation.

Dan’s colleagues in the legal profession—judges as well as lawyers— value his courtroom skills and experience and eagerly attend his presentations. Each year, he and partner Larry Pozner address the Colorado Judicial Conference on timely subjects like the evidentiary issues raised by the use of technology in the courtroom, and the standards used to determine the admissibility of scientific and other expert opinions.

Dan regularly addresses fellow trial attorneys in presentations to the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the Colorado Bar Association Annual Litigation Symposium, the Denver Bar Association, CLE programs, the University of Colorado School of Law and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association.

Before teaming up with Larry Pozner to form Reilly Pozner LLP, Dan was head of the litigation practice of the Denver office of McKenna & Cuneo, as well as head of that firm’s national litigation training program. Prior to that, he was a named partner in the Denver civil litigation firm of McDermott, Hansen & Reilly. At both firms, he was lead trial counsel for a wide range of highly complex, multi-state cases.

Dan Reilly was lead trial counsel in these cases:

  • Dan served as lead counsel defending AIG Life in a multi-million dollar copyright infringement case filed in a Texas federal court which was successfully resolved prior to trial.
  • Dan headed the trial team which twice successfully defeated class certification on behalf of the Old Line Life Insurance Company in a consumer/uniform business practices case filed in state court in California. The matter settled prior to trial.
  • Dan was also lead defense counsel representing a national life insurance company in a national class action brought in state court in New Mexico. The matter settled before trial.
  • Dan headed a plaintiff’s jury trial team which obtained a multi-million dollar trademark infringement judgment in Colorado federal court against H.J. Heinz.
  • Dan has represented Liberty Digital, a subsidiary of Liberty Media in a Colorado state court breach of contract dispute involving the cable music systems against a national cable company, Comcast Corporation.
  • Dan also currently represents Trane U.S. Inc. in the re-trial after appeal of a Colorado federal court action brought by a former franchisee of the company. In the re-trial, Dan and his team obtained a defense judgment which is now on appeal.
  • Seven state insurance guaranty associations sued a regional brokerage firm following the liquidation of MidWest Life. The claims were for fraud and breach of fiduciary duties. After three successful jury trials in Colorado, Washington and a three month trial in Iowa, the brokerage firm agreed to settle the cases for $30 million.
  • 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. Dan also heads up the ten-lawyer team in this significant representation —involving more than 100 cases in 26 states.
  • Dan Reilly was also lead trial counsel in a dispute over the ownership of the Denver Broncos. In 1984, Edgar Kaiser sold his share of the Denver Broncos Football Club to our client Pat Bowlen – retaining “right of first refusal” on any future sale of a portion of the team. Fifteen years later, after Bowlen had offered a stake in the club to former Broncos quarterback, John Elway, Kaiser sued Bowlen for breach of contract in both federal and state courts. The federal case progressed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where our client won. In the related state district court, summary judgment was granted in favor of our client. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court denied certiorari—and our client maintained control of the NFL franchise.