Carolyn J. Fairless
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP
Carolyn J. Fairless, Esq., is the President of Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP. She focuses her practice on professional liability defense and complex commercial litigation. Carolyn has been called "a lawyer's lawyer" and has successfully defended some of the nation's leading law firms and lawyers in high-stakes legal malpractice matters throughout the country. She has appeared as lead counsel in numerous state and federal courts in Colorado and other states. Carolyn is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Chambers USA, the leading rankings directory in the legal industry, ranks Carolyn in Band 1 for General Commercial Litigation in Colorado. For 2017, 2020-2021, and 2023, Best Lawyers recognized her as the Denver Defense Lawyer of the Year for Professional Malpractice Law or Legal Malpractice Law. Colorado Super Lawyers has ranked Carolyn in the Top 100 Lawyers and Top 50 Women, as voted by her colleagues and peers, every year from 2011 to the present, and in the Top 10 Lawyers in 2022 and 2023.
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