Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov

Colorado Court of Appeals

The Honorable Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov has served on the Colorado Court of Appeals since January 2019. Judge Lipinsky was previously a partner at Dentons US LLP, a multinational law firm, where he chaired the firm’s Denver litigation department. Judge Lipinsky chairs the Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct and serves on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission. He is a member of the Commission’s Technology Committee, the Technology Committee of the Colorado appellate courts, and the Colorado Court of Appeals’ Self-Represented Litigant Committee. In addition, Judge Lipinsky is the Managing Author of the Civil Benchbook, a resource provided to trial judges throughout Colorado, and is an Emeritus Board member of the Colorado Judicial Institute. He is a former President of the Faculty of Federal Advocates, the liaison organization between the Colorado bar and the federal judicial officers in the state, and a former First Vice President of the Denver Bar Association. He was also a member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association, and the Board of Trustees of the Denver Bar Association. In 2006, Judge Lipinsky co-founded the Colorado Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. Among other articles, Judge Lipinsky is the co-author of Can Robot Lawyers Close the Access to Justice Gap: Generative AI, the Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Self-Represented Litigants, 53 Colo. Law. 40 (Dec. 2024), and Artificial Intelligence and Professional Conduct: Considering the Ethical Implications of Using Electronic Legal Assistants, Colo. Law. at 20 (Jan./Feb. 2024). He is a frequent speaker on the intersection of artificial intelligence, legal ethics, and access to justice. Before joining the bench, Judge Lipinsky chaired several seminars on electronic discovery. He was a member of the Electronic Discovery Committee of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Judge Lipinsky is the author of Al-Hamim v. Star Hearthstone, LLC, 2024 COA 128, ¶ 3, ___ P.3d ___, the first reported decision in Colorado to address the appropriate sanction when a self-represented litigant files a brief peppered with GAI-produced hallucinations. He earned his A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he was managing editor of the Brown Daily Herald newspaper, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the New York University Law Review. Judge Lipinsky is married to United States Representative Diana DeGette (First District, Colorado), a law school classmate. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.

 

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