Boyd N. Boland
U.S. District Court
Honorable Boyd Boland is a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Judge Boland has served as a magistrate judge since February 2000. The duties of a magistrate judge generally include scheduling cases; hearing and determining non-dispositive motions; and conducting pretrial conferences. Magistrate judges also exercise authority to make recommendations on dispositive motions and to conduct all proceedings subject to the consent of the parties under 28 U.S.C. ' 636(c). In addition, magistrate judges conduct initial proceedings in felony criminal matters, including initial appearances, detention hearings, and arraignments, and have jurisdiction over most misdemeanor matters. Since becoming a magistrate judge, Judge Boland has presided over trials and evidentiary hearings; conducted more than 1,000 settlement conferences; and issued orders and recommendations on numerous motions involving the gamut of federal jurisdiction. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Boland was a partner in the litigation department of the Denver law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP. His practice there was extremely diverse and included cases involving state and federal securities laws claims; intellectual property, including disputes involving trademarks, copyrights, patents, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of confidentiality, non-disclosure, and non-competition agreements; construction and real property matters; professional negligence cases; general business torts and contract claims; and natural resource litigation. Judge Boland also maintained an appellate practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the Colorado Court of Appeals. In addition to practicing law, in 1994-95 Judge Boland was an assistant professor of Constitutional Law at Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, Mississippi. Judge Boland served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Hodges, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, in 1980-81. Judge Boland is a member of the American Law Institute; editor-in-chief of the Federal Courts Law Review; and active in the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. Judge Boland attended law school at Columbia University in New York City, earning a Juris Doctor degree in 1980. During law school, Judge Boland served on the board of editors of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. He earned his bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Denver in 1977. Judge Boland was born and raised on an apple farm near the Western Slope town of Paonia, Colorado. The farm has been in the Boland family for more than half a century.
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