David G. Palmer
Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
David G. Palmer has more than 30 years of trial and appellate experience throughout the Rocky Mountain region, Texas and California, including numerous multi-week jury trials involving claims under federal and state antitrust laws, securities and commodities laws, allegations of civil or criminal fraud, conspiracy, RICO, class actions and claims under federal environmental statutes. These representations and trials have involved parties engaged in the energy, food and beverage, financial and securities, software development sales, and a multitude of other businesses.
Dave has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1982, and is ranked in Band 1 for general and commercial litigation by Chambers USA Guide. He has defended corporations and their officers in federal and state trials and criminal grand jury investigations throughout the United States. Dave has been involved in numerous commercial and securities arbitrations serving as an advocate, as an arbitrator and as a mediator in complex business disputes.
Overview
- University of Colorado at Boulder, J.D., graduated 1970
- Colorado, Colorado Bar Association
- American Bar Association - Member
- American Bar Foundation - Fellow
- Board of Directors, Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation - Chairman
- Colorado Bar Association - Member
- Colorado Legal Aid Foundation - Member
- International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals - Member
- Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation - Executive Committee
- University of Colorado School of Medicine - Business Advisory Council
- Colorado, Colorado Bar Association
- American Bar Association - Member
- American Bar Foundation - Fellow
- Board of Directors, Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation - Chairman
- Colorado Bar Association - Member
- Colorado Legal Aid Foundation - Member
- International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals - Member
- Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation - Executive Committee
- University of Colorado School of Medicine - Business Advisory Council
- University of Colorado at Boulder, J.D., graduated 1970
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus

- Litigation - Banking and Finance, Denver (2025)
- Litigation - Securities, Denver (2021)
- Litigation - Antitrust, Denver (2020)
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Antitrust
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Securities
- Antitrust Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Antitrust
- Business Disputes
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Disputes
- Counseling
- Derivatives
- Energy
- Finance
- Insurance
- Litigation
- Securities
- Trade Regulation
- AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5
- "Schoolmaker Award," 1983
- "Gold Heart Award," 1981
- "Award of Merit," American Heart Association, 1994
- "National Gold Heart Award" American Heart Association, 1997
- "Denver's Top Lawyers," 5280 magazine, April 2001
- Law360 "Appellate Practice Group of the Year," 2010
- Law360 "Product Liability Practice Group of the Year," 2011
- Super Lawyers magazine, Colorado Super Lawyers, 2006-2013
- Chambers USA Guide, 2008-2013
- The Legal 500 United States, 2013
News & Media
Case History
- Other Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Areas of Concentration
- Litigation
- Antitrust
- Environmental
- Securities
- White collar crime
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