Jon F. Sands
Jon F. Sands, B.S. University of Colorado (with honors), J.D. University of Colorado School of Law (1980). Mr. Sands practices in the firm’s litigation department, specializing in insurance defense, bad faith defense, commercial and title insurance coverage, construction defect matters, title insurance defense and real estate matters. He has been lead trial counsel in numerous jury and bench trials throughout the state of Colorado, and also teaches courses on insurance law and trial presentation. He also has an extensive appellate practice. He is currently a member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Litigation Section Council. Mr. Sands has published articles in the Colorado Lawyer. He has been selected for inclusion in “The Best Lawyers in America” for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 for his excellent work in the insurance practice area, and has been selected for inclusion in “Super Lawyers” by Law and Politicsmagazine since its inception in 2006, indicating he is amongst the top 5% of attorneys as voted by his peers. Mr. Sands has also been selected by his peers as one of the top 50 trial attorneys in Colorado for 2010. He is a frequent lecturer for continuing education courses involving insurance bad faith, real estate litigation and general litigation. He was selected as a finalist for the 2004 Denver Business Journal “Best of the Bar Award” for the insurance practice area. Mr. Sands is a past president of the Board of Directors of the Denver Dumb Friends League and is currently president of the Board of Trustees of the Animal Assistance Foundation, a $20 million foundation headquartered in Denver.