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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Education and Professional Background
David L. Erickson received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Western New England College and a J.D. degree in Law from the
University of Denver.
He has practiced law for many
years, emphasizing commercial and financial matters, including the
structure, organization, and management of business enterprises, and
complex business transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and
reorganizations. He often consults with other respected law
firms, and with the boards of business and nonprofit
corporations. He is on the national panel of experts of The TASA
Group, Inc.
Arbitration Experience
Since 1993, he has been on the national panel of commercial arbitrators
of the American Arbitration Association and selected final arbiter in
over 60 commercial and financial disputes among individuals and
businesses. These include the dissolution and liquidation of
partnerships and corporations, shareholder disputes, commercial lending
liability claims and a variety of complex business disputes involving
breaches of contract and breaches of fiduciary duty.
He was final arbitrator of athletic
disputes for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Games Trials. Erickson is also
qualified as an arbitrator of securities and employment disputes for
FINRA (NASD Dispute Resolution and the New York Stock Exchange), and of
commercial disputes for the National Arbitration Forum, located in
Chicago.
Administrative Law and Proceedings
For many years, Erickson served as a volunteer hearing officer for the
Colorado Supreme Court on attorney grievance matters. The
Colorado Supreme Court also appointed him to a seven-year term on the
State Board of Law Examiners, where he participated in over 100
hearings involving the ethical and moral qualifications of attorneys
seeking admission to the bar.
In 2003, Erickson became an
Auxiliary Administrative Law Judge for the Colorado Office of
Administrative Appeals. Between 2003 and 2005, he was assigned
over 200 cases for hearing or other disposition.
Research and Writing
Erickson has written extensively, including Colorado Legal &
Business, a two-volume, 2000 page reference book on structuring
business entities and commercial transactions. Published by
Thomson West, the country’s largest publishers of legal and
educational reference materials, it has been updated annually since
1984. He has also completed a heavily researched book on the
early Colorado justice system and the formation of the bar
associations.
An excellent writer, Erickson
served two terms as president of Colorado Authors' League, the
state’s largest nonprofit organization for the professional
writer. He has numerous published articles.
Professional Associations
Erickson served a term on the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar
Association and is its official Historian. He is a Fellow of the
Colorado Bar Foundation, a charitable organization, and served as an
officer of the Denver Bar Association as an Administrator of the
Waterman Fund, a charitable trust.
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