Jon C. Boesen

Jon C. Boesen is the founder of Boesen Law, LLC. Mr. Boesen has 30 years of experience and practices in civil litigation, where he has represented thousands of people in all kinds of litigation, including jury trials, workers' compensation hearings and social security disability hearings. His primary emphasis is in personal injury where he has successfully handled wrongful death, car crash, truck crash, motorcycle crash, slip and fall, dog attack, liquor liability, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury cases and other kinds of bodily injury claims.

Mr. Boesen has also handled and overseen numerous Mass Tort Claims and Class Actions involving bad and defective pharmaceutical drugs and products, including the representation of over 4,000 claimants nationwide in the Fen-Phen Diet Drug litigation.

Mr. Boesen is admitted to practice in Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Boesen graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor's of Science in 1986 with a Finance Major. In 1989, Mr. Boesen graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Juris Doctor.

Practice Areas :
Personal Injury
Workers Compensation

Associations and Memberships :
American Association for Justice
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
Denver Better Business Bureau

Stephen A. Justino

Stephen A. Justino is a personal injury attorney with 32 years legal experience. He has represented the victims of car crashes, truck crashes, motorcycle crashes, slip and fall accidents, dog attacks, liquor liability cases, traumatic brain injury cases, spinal cord injury cases and wrongful death cases.

Mr. Justino, who served in the U.S. Army, as a lawyer in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corp from 1986 - 1992, is recognized, in Colorado, for handling negligence claims against the United States of America arising under the Federal Torts Claims Act.

Professor Tom Russell, who teaches Tort Law at the Sturm College of Law, at the University of Denver, said: "When I teach the Federal Torts Claims Act, what I say to the students it this: 'Write this down in your notes; Call Steve Justino.'"

Mr. Justino is admitted to practice in Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Mr. Justino graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor's of Arts in 1981 with a Political Science Major. He graduated from the Syracuse University College of Law, with a Juris Doctor degree, in 1985.

Education :
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1985
B.A., Kent State University, 1981
Member, National Collegiate Honors Society

Jurisdictions
Colorado, 1989
New York, 1986
Connecticut, 1986

Professional & Bar Association Memberships:

Colorado Bar Association
-Member since 1986
-Bill of Rights Committee

Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA)
-Member since 1989
-EAGLE Committee, Auto Litigators Committee, Med Mal Task Force

Dennis P. Walker

Dennis' work emphasizes the unique circumstances individuals face. His case load is not repetitive activity. Recognizing the distinct needs of people. He is challenged and blessed by the clients he represents.

Practice Areas :
Personal Injury
Insurance
Medical
Disability
Employment
Life Insurance Claim
Subspecialty: ERISA Litigation

Associations and Memberships:
CBA (Colorado Bar Association) DBA, AAJ, CTLA

Associations and Memberships:
Basketball
Guitar
James Joyce Reading Society

Joseph J. Fraser, III

Mr. Fraser is an attorney with experience on both sides of claims who knows the law and cares for people.

Practice Areas :
Workers Compensation
SSDI

Associations and Memberships:
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
Member of Practice Speciality Workers Compensation Section
Admitted to Colorado State & U.S. District Court

Personal Interests/Hobbies:
Guitar, Singing, Motorcycle, Hiking & Skiing

Barry I. Dunn

Barry I. Dunn is a personal injury trial lawyer with over 28 years of significant litigation experience. His leaves no stone unturned to maximize his clients recoveries. Mr. Dunn ensures his clients obtain proper health care with excellent providers who specialize in treating his clients specific injuries. Mr. Dunn does not attempt to settle a case until it is ready for settlement. He has filed over 300 complaints in Colorado District Courts when insurance claims adjusters did not make appropriate settlement offers.

Mr. Dunn has conducted numerous trials, mediations and arbitrations in a wide variety of cases. His personal injury experience includes automobile accidents, premises liability (including slips/trips and falls, and zip line accidents), construction casualty, product liability (products include defective pharmaceutical drugs, asbestos, automobiles and products used in manufacturing), insurance bad faith and medical malpractice. He has practiced mainly with law firms representing injured plaintiffs. He was a senior attorney and one of the highest earning attorneys at a prominent plaintiff's personal injury law firm in the Denver area for 14 years prior to joining Boesen Law, LLC. He has practiced with insurance defense law firms and thus understands the perspective of the "other side". Mr. Dunn has also been a successful construction defect trial litigator for approximately three years at a prominent insurance defense law firm in the Denver area. Mr. Dunn was interviewed about personal injury law on KBNO Radio, Denver.

Mr. Dunn's experience also includes over 20 successful appeals, representing both appellants and respondents. Some of these appeals have been published: Chen v. Superior Court, 54 Cal. App.4th 168 (1997) (subsequently ordered,published by the California Supreme Court); Traweek v. Finley, Kumble, Wagner, et seq., 235 Cal.App.3d 1128 (1991); and, Puckett v. Johns'Manville Corp., 169 Cal.App.3d 1010 (1985) (sole author of the appeal, and main responsibility as a law clerk. This appeal resulted in hundreds of longshoremen in California, who were injured by asbestos, having had their cases reinstated on appeal after the cases were dismissed by the trial court).

Mr. Dunn is actively licensed as an attorney in Colorado and California. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, 1974, and his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1984. Mr. Dunn is admitted before all Colorado and California state courts, United States District Courts for the District of Colorado and the Central, Northern and Eastern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits.

Practice Areas :
Colorado Bar Association
Boulder County Bar Association
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
American Association for Justice (also known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
National Trial Lawyers (where he was elected as one of the "Top 100 Trial Lawyers for Civil Plaintiff's in Colorado; the selection based on a multi-phase process which includes peer nominations combined with third-party research).

Associations and Memberships:
CBA (Colorado Bar Association) DBA, AAJ, CTLA

Associations and Memberships:
Basketball
Guitar
James Joyce Reading Society

Nikolas M. Sulley

Nikolas, or Nik, as he is known to his friends and family, is a Colorado native. He grew up in Grand Junction and graduated from Grand Junction High School in 2012. Nik attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, graduating with honors in 2016 with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in History. After graduating from college, Nik spent a year bartending in Salt Lake City before moving to New York City and attending Brooklyn Law School. During this time, he worked for two years for a small Midtown firm that specialized in commercial real estate as well as trusts and estates. Nik also spent a year and a half in a clinical externship at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. While there, he worked under the Deputy Chief for the Civil Division on such cases as the DACA and Haiti Temporary Protected Status litigations and the Purdue Pharmaceutical Multidistrict Litigation. Some of the cases Nik worked on made it before the Second Circuit where he was granted the opportunity to sit in on multiple oral arguments. Nik graduated with honors from Brooklyn Law School in 2020 and passed the Colorado Bar Exam that July.

Shortly before taking the Bar Exam, Nik married the love of his life, whom he met while attending Gonzaga University, in a ceremony just outside of Glacier National Park in Montana. They are devoted soccer players and fans, both continuing to play regularly, often on the same team. Nik also enjoys fly fishing and is an avid golfer, spending as much of his free time as he can on the links. Nik and his wife live in Denver with their German Shepard, Ginnie.

Education:
Gonzaga University - 2016
Brooklyn Law School - 2020

Admissions:
Colorado Supreme Court - 2020
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado - 2021
U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit - 2021

Associations and Memberships:
Colorado Bar Association
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Steven H. Berlant

Mr. Berlant has been licensed to practice law and has been in good standing for over twenty five years. He has been granted the honor of also being licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Berlant received his doctorate from the University of Denver in 1988 and passed the Colorado Bar Exam the same year. Mr. Berlant also has a business and science background and enjoys working closely with engineers of all disciplines, economists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, neurologists and a plethora of medical professionals.

Mr. Berlant has sole responsibility for his cases, which are predominantly Tort based (civil relief for persons who have suffered harm due to the wrongful acts of others). His practice focuses on severe brain and spine trauma, as well as toxic tort, dangerous and defective products, insurance law, environmental law, wrongful death and construction defect matters.

Mr. Berlant's scholarly work has been published at the university law review level. He has also authored and been cited as an authority in numerous magazines and books. In addition to practicing law, he has been a professor of law and has taught Torts, Legal Research and Writing, and Legal Ethics. He has also served on the board of directors for an international non-profit.

In addition to running his own private practice, Mr. Berlant has worked for a large 17th Street firm, the Colorado Attorney General's office, EPA, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Nature Conservancy. Mr. Berlant has also trained and practiced as a mediator.

Mr. Berlant has assisted individuals, citizen groups, corporations, local, federal and tribal government entities involving a diverse range of civil matters. He has also had extensive experience with CERCLA litigation (hazardous substance clean-up) including actions involving railroads and mining operations, nuisance and trespassing, hazardous waste removal and remediation and implementation of the Clean Air Act, Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act, et al.

In addition, Mr. Berlant has been involved with class-action lawsuits. Mr. Berlant has also been engaged in business and transactional law, including serving as in-house counsel for a satellite television network and he was lead defense counsel in a complex groundwater remediation lawsuit involving an innocent landowner. Additionally, Mr. Berlant was involved in the toxic tort case involving Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility (a case in which the local residents were exposed to airborne radiological contaminants that had been released into the soil). He successfully prevented the creation of a placer mine in a small Colorado community and built a coalition to challenge a proposed EPA waste disposal permit for a weld county landfill. Furthermore, Mr. Berlant was part of a team that litigated and set a clean-up precedent for a CERCLA mining waste site in Colorado.

Practice Area :
Personal Injury

Associations and Memberships:
Colorado Bar Association (CBA)