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Firm: Garfield & Hecht, P.C.
625 East Hyman Avenue , Aspen , Colorado 81611
Practice Areas: Commercial
Chad focuses on commercial, real estate, construction and employment litigation in state and federal courts. As an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive litigation experience, he has tried or resolved hundreds of cases, including obtaining a seven figure judgment in a construction defect case, successfully prosecuting and defending numerous landlord-tenant and property related disputes for the owner of a large mixed-use retail and office development that was obtained through foreclosure, which enabled the new owner to sell the property at a significant gain, successfully defending a tenant in a multi-million dollar landlord-tenant dispute, successfully defending a developer in a mechanics’ lien foreclosure action and prevailing on an excessive lien claim and successfully defending employers in wage act lawsuit. Chad also served on a team that secured a favorable national product liability class action settlement for a global manufacturing company. In the construction law context, Chad has negotiated numerous construction contracts on behalf of developers, home owners and contractors. Prior to joining Garfield & Hecht in 1998, Chad practiced law in Chicago.
Firm: Garfield & Hecht, P.C.
625 East Hyman Avenue , Aspen , Colorado 81611
Practice Areas: Commercial
I have been an active trial lawyer since graduating from law school in 1984. Prior to joining Garfield & Hecht, P.C. in 1994, I was a trial attorney at the Denver office of Ballard Spahr, LLP, a Philadelphia-based national law firm with over 400 attorneys.. I have appeared before federal and state courts throughout Colorado and other states on behalf of individuals and large and small businesses, including financial institutions and banks. I have acted as the trial attorney in cases involving lender liability claims, contested foreclosures, breach of contract claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, shareholder and derivative claims, partnership and limited liability company dissolutions, construction defect and delay claims, adverse possession and boundary line disputes, quiet title actions, product liability claims, and personal injury and wrongful death claims. I have also represented individual homeowners and real estate developers in high profile land use cases with the City of Aspen and Pitkin County. For the past 15 years, I have been one of the two primary trial attorneys for a Fortune 500 company defending the manufacturer of a component part used in radiant heating systems in numerous jury trials in state and federal courts throughout Colorado, including the recent successful defense of the Fortune 500 company in a statewide class action case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. I also have extensive appellate experience, and have appeared before the Colorado Court of Appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
