Academy Member Inducted 2011
Map & DirectionsGordon W. Netzorg
Diplomate member675 Fifteenth Street, Suite 2300
Denver, CO 80202
Available
- Practice Commenced2004
- # of MEDS (as of 6/12/24)225
- # of ARBS (as of 6/12/24)80
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
Biographical
Mr. Netzorg regularly serves as an arbitrator and mediator as a member of American Arbitration Association's Complex Commercial Case arbitration and mediation panels.
Arbitration cases have included large complex commercial contracts; banking lending practices; finder’s fees; intellectual property; computer software; programming; patents; unfair trade practices; breach of fiduciary duties; fraud; accounting and tax; professional liability; FLSA; putative class actions; collateralized debt; business breakups; natural resources, mining and oil and gas disputes; tribal conflicts; securities and investments; gaming facilities; sports controversies; and real estate matters.
Mediation cases have included breach of fiduciary duty; breach of trust; registered representative (stock broker) misconduct; entity breakups; professional malpractice; insurance coverage; breach of contract; divorce; auto accidents; large, complex estate and trust matters; antitrust. Many of these cases have been multiparty mediations.
For years, Mr. Netzorg’s practice focused on complex, multi-party commercial litigation, with an emphasis on partnership, limited liability company, and corporate disputes; officer and director liability, bond litigation, securities and fraud litigation; natural resources including oil and gas, mining disputes; lender liability, estate, banking, and real estate litigation. He is now transitioning his practice to full time ADR, where he has developed a unique approach to mediation. The process has yielded a number of successful settlements of multi-party disputes in the $100 million to $300 million range at the high end.
Mr. Netzorg has successfully tried and obtained verdicts, judgments and arbitration awards in a wide variety of complex commercial cases including 8-figure awards and 9-figure settlement. Typical cases involved issues as diverse as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, corporate governance, business and investment fraud, real estate, debtor-lender disputes, estate disputes, intellectual property and natural resources.
Case Experience
- Anti-Trust
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Commercial/Business
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Debt Collections
- Energy Sector (Oil/Gas)
- Environmental
- Family Businesses
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International
- Internet
- Legal Malpractice
- Libel & Slander
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Native American
- Partnerships
- Pensions
- Personal Injury
- Pharmaceuticals
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Shareholder Disputes
- Software
- Sports
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Trusts / Estates
- Unfair Competition
- Utilities
- Venture Capital
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
Education
- Juris Doctor, with honors, Syracuse University, 1976 Articles Editor, Syracuse Law Review
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1970
Memberships & Affiliations
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (Chair, Colorado State Committee 2010-2012)
- Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Past President and Past Chair, Commercial Law Section, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Top 10 Colorado Super Lawyers 2013-2023 (ranked #2 for 2018 and 2020 and #3 for 2019), Top 100 Colorado Super Lawyers 2012-2020, Top 50 Colorado Super Lawyers 2006-2011
- Best of the Bar Award for Securities Law 2005
- Listed since 1995 in Best Lawyers in America, current categories include: Arbitration, Mediation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Banking and Finance, Litigation- Real Estate, Litigation-Securities
- Best Lawyers' 2010 and 2013 Litigation Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year and 2019 Litigation-Securities Lawyer of the Year, Denver, CO
- Recognized by 5280 Magazine as Top Lawyer-Commercial Litigation 2015-2022
- IAALS Rebuilding Justice Award, April 2015
- American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice
Rates Information
Two parties-$375 hr. per party; three parties-$325 hr. per party; four parties-$275 hr. per party.