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Walter L. Gerash

Biography:

• Listed: The Best Lawyers In America, Personal Injury and Criminal Law, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
• Recipient: Whitehead Award, American Civil Liberties Union, 1990;
• Annual Civil Rights Award, Anti-Defamation League, Denver, Colorado, 1996;
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, May 2000.
• Recipient, Outstanding Law School Alumni Award, University of Denver Law School, 1995.
• Top 25 Lawyers in Colorado, Denver Business Journal, 2004.
• Author: "Recent Action in the No-Man's Land of Labor Law," 33 DICTA 199, 1956;
• "One Year Review of Evidence," 38 DICTA 184, 1961;
• "Tips in a Traumatic Neurosis Case," Chapter 6, Traumatic Neurosis in Personal Injury Cases, Cohen, 1970;
• "Liability For Trampoline Injury," American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts and Series, 45 Am. Jur. Proof of Facts, 2nd 469, 1986;
• "The Trial-A Morality Play," Interview with Walter Gerash, Trial Diplomacy Journal, June, 1986;
• "Selecting Jurors in a Criminal Case," Chapter in Masters of Trial Practice, John Wiley & Sons, 1988;
• "Julian, on Summation," 1990
• Supplement (three summations), John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
• Trustee, Belli Society, 1979.
• Co-author with Phil Goodstein, "Murder in the Bank Vault, The Father's Day Massacre and the Trial of James King," New Social Publications, 1997.
• Fellow: American Board of Criminal Lawyers (President, 1991).

Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Medical Malpractice; Defective Products; Criminal Felonies

Admitted: 1956, Colorado; 1960, U.S. Supreme Court; New York, 1982 ; 1975, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Tenth Circuits

Law School: University of California at Los Angeles and University of Denver (LL.B., 1956; J.D., 1970)

College: University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1949; University of Chicago, M.A., 1951

Member: Denver, Colorado (Member, Criminal Rules of Procedure Committee, 1960) and American Bar Associations; American Board of Trial Attorneys; Colorado Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; National Lawyers Guild

Military: U.S. Army, 1944-1946

Reported Cases:

• Test v. U.S., 420 U.S. 28, 95 S. Ct. 749, 42 L. Ed. 2d 786 (U.S. Colo., Jan. 27 1973).
• Jones v. Hildebrant, 191 Colo. 1, 550 P.2d 339 (Colo., May 24, 1976).
• Flournoy v. Sayles, 37 Colo. App. 67, 544 P.2d 649 (Colo. App., Oct 23, 1975).
• Gonazales v. Safeway Stores, Inc, 147 Colo. 358, 363 P.2d. 667 (Colo. Jul. 24, 1961).
• Montoya v. People, 141 Colo. 9, 345 P.2d 1062 (Colo., Nov. 9, 1959).
• Barrett v. People, 136 Colo. 144, 315 P.2d 192 (Colo., Aug. 26, 1957).