Gerald D. Pratt
Law Office of Gerald D. Pratt, P.C.
Gerald Pratt, Esq., has his own practice in Greenwood Village, Colorado. With more than 40 years of trial experience, he has served as lead counsel in a variety of cases, including professional liability, personal injury, products liability, insurance bad faith, and criminal defense. Mr. Pratt currently devotes a significant portion of his practice to defending lawyers in disciplinary cases and professional liability lawsuits, as well as advising lawyers on ethics and professional liability issues so that, hopefully, they will never need a defense. Mr. Pratt has served on the Ethics Committee of the Colorado Bar Association since 1984 and is a past chair of that committee. As part of his work on the Ethics Committee he has served on numerous subcommittees charged with drafting formal opinions, including Opinion 71 (Ex Parte Communications with Treating Physicians - 1985), Opinion 73 (Contact with Insurance Adjuster - 1986); Opinion 77 (Participation with Medical-Legal Consulting Firm - 1988), Opinion 86 (Use of Subpoenas in Civil Actions - 1990), Opinion 103 (Propriety of Compensating a Non-expert Witness in a Civil Action - 1998), Opinion 112 (Surreptitious Recording of Conversations or Statements - 2003), Opinion 127 (Use of Social Media for Investigative Purposes - 2015), Opinion 137 (Advising, Directing and Supervising Others in Lawful Investigative Activities that Involve Dishonesty, Fraud, Deceit, or Misrepresentation – 2019), Opinion 143 (Ethical Issues When a Lawyer is Faced with Questions about the Amount a Client May Owe a Third Person for Medical Expenses at the Conclusion of a Personal Injury Case – 2021), Opinion 147 (Expecting the Unexpected: Ethical Considerations in Succession Planning – 2024), and Opinion 148 (Ethical Issues When a Lawyer Includes a Client in a Group Email or Text to Counsel for Other Parties – 2024). He also has served on the CBA Lawyers' Professional Liability Committee since 2001 and chaired that committee from 2010 to 2016. Mr. Pratt is a member and former President of the Colorado Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a national organization of trial lawyers devoted to preserving jury trials and elevating the standards of integrity, honor, and courtesy in the legal profession.
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