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BIOGRAPHICAL
AND PROFESSIONAL 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 consults with other respected law
firms, and with the boards of business and nonprofit
corporations. He is experienced in the independent analysis of
complex commercial and financial transactions and the preparation of
written reports.
Arbitration Experience
Erickson is on the national panels of commercial and construction
arbitrators
of the American Arbitration Association and selected final arbiter in
numerous 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 for FINRA (NASD Dispute Resolution and NYSE)
in securities and employment disputes.
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 numerous
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 and over the next two years he was assigned
over 200 cases for hearing or other disposition.
Research and Writing
Erickson has written extensively, including Colorado Corporate Forms: Legal &
Business, a two-volume, 2000 page reference book on structuring
business entities and commercial transactions. Published
by the country’s largest publisher of legal and
educational reference materials, Thomson West, it has been updated
annually since
1984. His 2008 book, Early
Justice and the Formation of the Colorado Bar, was
a bestseller and finalist for the Colorado Authors' League Top
Hand Award.
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 and stories.
Professional Associations
Erickson served on the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar
Association and is its official Historian. He also served as an
officer of the Denver Bar Association where he was an
Administrator of
the
Waterman Fund, a charitable trust. He is also a Fellow of the
Colorado Bar Foundation, a charitable organization.
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