Practice Area:Commercial, Construction, Contract, Employment
Former Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Russell Carparelli has litigated, tried, and presided as a judge in more than 1,000 cases. He retired from the Colorado Court of Appeals in December 2013, and now brings extraordinary breadth and depth of experience to mediation.
His subject matter expertise as a mediator includes the full breadth of civil law and complex litigation. Russ also brings special expertise in negotiations, having negotiated scores of settlements and taught and lectured on the subject of negotiation strategy and tactics.
Judge Carparelli has been a lawyer, judge, leader, and innovator throughout his professional life. Before becoming an appellate judge, he was a prosecutor, commercial litigator, and Air Force Judge Advocate. During his military career, Russ served in the Pentagon as the Chief of Civilian Personnel and Labor Litigation when the Air Force had 300,000 civilian personnel and hundreds of pending lawsuits around the nation. He later served as special litigation counsel to the Air Force Secretary and General Staff. He retired from Air Force active duty in the grade of Lieutenant Colonel.
Judge Carparelli’s experience in private practice and on the Colorado Court of Appeals includes:
Commercial and government contracts
Construction
Real estate
Employment
Environmental
Insurance coverage and bad faith
Professional liability
Personal injury
Probate
Education
USAF Academy, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Judicial training courses at New York University, the Federal Judicial Center, and the National Judicial College
Mediation Training
Institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee
CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado
Associations
American Bar Association
American Inns of Court
American Judicature Society
Association for Conflict Resolution
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Bar Foundation
Colorado Chief Justice’s Commission on the Legal Profession
Colorado Judicial Institute
Colorado Judicial Learning Center
Denver Bar Association
Justice at Stake
National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia
