Thomas L. Kanan Jr
c/o Dynamic Transitions
Thomas L. Kanan, Jr., has been active in litigation involving wide variety of legal areas, including criminal, commercial, tort, civil rights, probate, governmental defense, insurance coverage, and appeals. He has been especially occupied with workers’ compensation law in his regular practice, as a result of which he received the Lansford Butler Award from the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Colorado Bar Association in 2001. He has been an officer in many professional and civic organizations, including service as chairman of the Committee on Administrative Adjudication for the Governor’s Taskforce on Civil Justice Reform from 2000 to 2001. He has been a moderator for the Challenge Bowl at the Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival for over two decades. He belongs to the CBA and the DBA. He has frequently been a lecturer for CLE in Colorado, Inc.
Mr. Kanan has lived in Colorado almost all his life. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Denver, which he attended on an Alumni Scholarship. He worked as a teaching assistant at DU for two years, then for six years at the Denver Department of Social Services, before attending the law school at the University of Colorado, from which he graduated in 1980. He has been a law clerk for Justice Luis Rovira, a deputy district attorney in Jefferson and Gilpin counties, and an expert witness in Colorado district courts on the state’s workers’ compensation system. In addition to his regular duties as claims manager for Western Guaranty Fund Services, an organization that handles claims for the insurance guaranty associations of a seven-state region, Mr. Kanan is working professionally as a legal consultant and as a private hearing officer.
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