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.  He chairs the Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct and the Supreme Court's Legal Technology Advisory Committee, and he serves on the Colorado Access to Justice Commission, the Commission's Technology and Delivery Committees, the Appellate Courts Technology Committee, and the Colorado Court of Appeals' Self-Represented Litigant and Governance Committees.  He is a former President of the Faculty of Federal Advocates 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 July 2025, he received the Denver Bar Association's Judicial Excellence Award.  He is a frequent writer and speaker on the intersection of artificial intelligence, legal ethics, and access to justice.  Among other articles, Judge Lipinsky is the co-author of Artificial Intelligence and the Code of Judicial Conduct, Jud. Conduct Rptr. 28 (Spring/Summer/Fall 2025); 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 has spoken at artificial intelligence conferences throughout Colorado; in Washington, D.C.; and in Europe.  Judge Lipinsky is the author of Al-Hamim v. Star Hearthstone, LLC, 2024 COA 128, 564 P.3d 1117, the first Colorado decision to address the appropriate sanction when a self-represented litigant files a brief containing AI-generated 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.