James Avery
Colorado’s Top Personal Injury Law Firm
- Biography
Nationally recognized top high stakes trial lawyer with the talent, toughness and tenacity to get you top dollar for your case. Over 38 years experience in serious personal injury and death cases nationwide (licensed in New York, Indiana, Colorado and all federal courts). Also handling complex and catastrophic personal injury, civil rights, hospital liability, wrongful death, insurance law and product liability cases.
DENVER INJURY LAW.CO-HIGH STAKES LAW
- Practice Areas
- Legal Malpractice
- Health Care Law
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Asbestos & Mesothelioma
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- White Collar Crime
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Animal & Dog Law
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Video Conferencing
- Fees
- Free Consultation
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Contingent Fees
Typical fee is 33 1/3 percent (one-third) for negligence cases.
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Colorado
- Colorado Supreme Court
- ID Number: 13037
- Since 1983
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- Languages
- Spanish:
Spoken, Written
- Professional Experience
- Lead Trial Lawyer & President
- Avery Law Firm
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1989 –
Current
- Education
- University of Denver
- J.D. (1982) | Law
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1979
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1982 - Honors: Barrister’s Cup
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- Awards
- SuperLawyer-Plaintiff Personal Injury
- Superlawyers
- 2021
- Super Lawyers selects attorneys using a patented multiphase selection process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel.
- High Stakes Litigator
- America’s Top 100
- 2021
- Denver trial lawyer James Avery is again awarded America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigator award for 2021. Membership among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® is meant to identify and highlight the accomplishments of the nation’s most esteemed and skilled litigators in high stakes legal matters.
- SuperLawyer Plaintiff: Personal Injury
- Superlawyers
- 2020
- Over ten years named as SuperLawyer in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from 70+ practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition & professional achievement.
- High Stakes Litigator
- America’s Top 100
- 2020
- Membership among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators® is meant to identify and highlight the accomplishments of the nation’s most esteemed and skilled litigators in high stakes legal matters. To be considered for selection, an attorney must have litigated (for either plaintiff or defendant) a matter (1) with at least $2,000,000 in alleged damages at stake or (2) with the fate of a business worth at least $2,000,000 at stake (i.e. bet-the-company litigation valued in excess of $2,000,000).
- High Stakes Litigators
- America’s Top 100
- 2019
- Award limited to the top 100 high stakes (cases over $1,000,000 value) litigators in the State.
- Plaintiff: Personal Injury
- Superlawyers
- 2019
- Limited to top 5% of lawyers in the State.
- Lifetime Achievement
- America’s Top 100
- 2018
- Award for lifetime achievement in Personal Injury is limited to the top 100 lawyers in the State.
- Nation’s Top One Percent
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel
- 2016
- The Nation’s Top One Percent DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF LEGAL EXCELLENCE
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2014
- Representing top 1% of lawyers in the State.
- Lifetime Charter Member
- Best Attorneys of America
- 2013
- Lifetime Achievement recognizing the top attorneys in the State.
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2013
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers Association
- 2012
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2011
- National Top Attorneys
- Newsweek
- 2011
- Recognized by Newsweek as one of the Nation’s Top Attorneys
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2010
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2009
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2008
- Fellow
- Litigation Counsel of America
- 2008
- Charter Membership recognizing less than one-half of one percent of lawyers in the State, by invitation only.
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- National Trial Lawyers
- 2007
- Inaugural year recognizing top 100 Trial Lawyers in the State.
- Professional Associations
- NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member
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2020 –
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- Indiana State Bar
- Member
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2003 –
Current -
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New York State Bar
 # 1918820
- Member
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1984 –
Current -
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Denver Bar Association
 # 11358
- Member
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1984 –
Current - Activities: Civil Rights Law Section Medical Malpractice Section Legal Malpractice Section
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Colorado Bar Association
 # 11358
- Member
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1984 –
Current - Activities: Civil Rights Law Section Medical Malpractice Law Section Legal Malpractice Law Section
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Colorado State Bar
 # 13037
- Member
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1982 –
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- Publications
- Colorado Lawyer
- Colorado Bar Association
- February, 1998
- Websites & Blogs
- Website
- Colorado’s Top Personal Injury Law Firm
- Contact & Address
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