December 2012

Professionalism in Today's Competitive Legal Market: Why It's In Everyone's Interest - LIVE WEBCAST

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Hon. Richard L. Gabriel was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2008. Judge Gabriel received his B.A. in American Studies from Yale University in 1984 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1987. Prior to his appointment, Judge Gabriel was a long-time partner with Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (now, Bryan Cave HRO) in Denver, where his practice focused on commercial, intellectual property, probate, and products liability litigation, including appeals, and where he headed the firm's intellectual property practice group. While in practice, Judge Gabriel also served as the City Prosecutor for the City of Lafayette, Colorado, where he tried some 200 cases, and he devoted substantial time to pro bono and community efforts, including work for the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center and the ACLU, representation of an Oklahoma death row inmate, and service on many nonprofit boards. He has received numerous awards for his service to the community, including a Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center Champions for Children Award and the Richard Marden Davis Award, which is presented annually by the Denver Bar Foundation and the law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP to a lawyer under the age of forty who combines excellence in the practice of law and creative community leadership. In addition, he was listed in Chambers' Leading Lawyers for Business and Colorado Super Lawyers, and he was Law Week Colorado's Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year and one of Lawyers USA's Lawyers of the Year for 2007. Judge Gabriel is a member of the state bars of New York and Colorado; the bars of numerous federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court; and the American, Colorado, New York, and Denver Bar Associations, where he serves on various committees, including the Colorado Bar Association's Executive Council, Board of Governors, and Judicial Liaison Committee, and the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations' Professionalism Coordinating Council. Judge Gabriel is also a member of the Chief Justice's Commission on the Profession, he remains active on the board of the Colorado Judicial Institute, which he previously chaired, and with the Minoru Yasui Inn of Court and the Our Courts program. He writes and speaks frequently on matters relating to the judiciary, trial and appellate practice, and professionalism. In his spare time, he plays the trumpet professionally with, among other groups, the Colorado Wind Ensemble and the Flagstaff Brass Quintet.