Willis V. Carpenter Esq
Mr. Carpenter was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1954, and has been engaged in private practice in Denver ever since, excluding service in the Navy from 1955 to 1958. He attended public schools in Hayden and Denver, Colorado, and graduated from East Denver High School. He received his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University in 1951, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in1954.
A frequent CLE lecturer and author, he also taught the property portion of the bar refresher course from 1972 to 1981. Mr. Carpenter has authored numerous articles. Additionally, he wrote three chapters of Krendl’s Colorado Methods of Practice (“Easements,” “Drafting Leases,” and “Termination of Leases and Unlawful Detainer”), and published two books with CLE in Colorado: Colorado Title Insurance Practice and Colorado Real Estate Practice.
He chaired the Real Property Section of the Colorado Bar Association in 1976-1977, received that Section’s first “Deserving Member Award” in 1986, and was the first recipient of the Section’s 50-year Outstanding Lawyer Award in 2004. He served on the Title Standards Committee from 1980 to 2015.
In 1978-1979, he was elected president of the Denver Bar Association. He received the DBA Annual Award of Merit in 1993 and the CBA Annual Award of Merit in 2004.
A director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., from 1967 through 1988, he was CLE’s president in 1976-1977. He and Holly Hoxeng were the first recipients of CLE’s Richard N.Doyle Award of Excellence in 2002.
Mr. Carpenter was a charter member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is a Fellow in both the American Bar Foundation and the Colorado Bar Foundation.
(03/22)
Mr. Carpenter was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1954, and has been engaged in private practice in Denver ever since, excluding service in the Navy from 1955 to 1958. He attended public schools in Hayden and Denver, Colorado, and graduated from East Denver High School. He received his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University in 1951, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1954.
A frequent CLE lecturer and author, he also taught the property portion of the bar refresher course from 1972 to 1981. Mr. Carpenter has authored numerous articles. Additionally, he wrote three chapters of Krendl’s Colorado Methods of Practice (“Easements,” “Drafting Leases,” and “Termination of Leases and Unlawful Detainer”), and published two books with CLE in Colorado: Colorado Title Insurance Practice and Colorado Real Estate Practice.
He chaired the Real Property Section of the Colorado Bar Association in 1976-1977, received that Section’s first “Deserving Member Award” in 1986, and was the first recipient of the Section’s 50-year Outstanding Lawyer Award in 2004. He served on the Title Standards Committee from 1980 to 2015.
In 1978-1979, he was elected president of the Denver Bar Association. He received the DBA Annual Award of Merit in 1993 and the CBA Annual Award of Merit in 2004.
A director of Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., from 1967 through 1988, he was CLE’s president in 1976-1977. He and Holly Hoxeng were the first recipients of CLE’s Richard N.Doyle Award of Excellence in 2002.
Mr. Carpenter was a charter member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is a Fellow in both the American Bar Foundation and the Colorado Bar Foundation.
(03/22)
