Avery Law Firm, lawyers in Denver, CO, Colorado

AVERY LAW FIRM is regularly involved in serious catastrophic injury cases. Although the vast majority of cases settle, confidentially, when trial is necessary, we are ready to do battle with the best. Recently, Jim Avery has won hard fought trials against two of the toughest defense lawyers in the nation, Peter Pryor (Denver) and Tom Sartwelle (Houston). Peter Pryor was said to have lost only 3 cases in his 30 year career. Tom Sartwelle is considered one of the best defense lawyers in Texas.

Firm founder Jim Avery has obtained a $2 million dollar settlement in a birth trauma case, and a $1.7 million dollar verdict for a retired USAF pilot with mild brain injury from an automobile accident. The firm has handled numerous birth trauma, brain damage and spinal cord injury cases.

In a confidential settlement, the founder of AVERY LAW FIRM, Jim Avery, settled what was said (by the settlement judge) to be the largest malpractice settlement in Colorado since the advent of tort reform legislation in the mid-1980's. Although state law purports to place a cap of $1 million on malpractice awards, Mr. Avery was able to negotiate a settlement in a malpractice case for over $4 million, on behalf of a brain injured baby.

Recently, Mr. Avery pioneered auto accident cases involving claims of "road rage", when he represented two teenage girls with broken backs in a double fatality case where the responsible drivers were deliberately battling on the roadway.

Mr. Avery has also served as the lead attorney in other cases garnishing national recognition to the firm.

In the 1980's, Mr. Avery represented a large group of claimants in a $30 million commodities fraud case against Western Monetary Consultants and its principal, William R. Kennedy, Jr. This was an unprecedented result in the field of commodities fraud and holding principles of corporations responsible for its actions.

In the 1990's, Mr. Avery represented a large group of claimants in a medical malpractice case against Denver's Children's Hospital and various pediatric surgeons, arising from a so called epidemic called craniosynostosis. The case was reported several times on the front page of the Denver Post (October, 1995 and thereafter), the Wall Street Journal (February, 1996) and was the subject of a feature story on ABC's 20/20 with Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs. Confidential settlements were obtained.

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