Ross Pulkrabek represents businesses and individuals in civil trials and commercial disputes. His practice emphasizes litigation of claims for legal malpractice and other forms of professional negligence, business fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, and insurance bad faith.

Mr. Pulkrabek has tried several cases, both as plaintiff’s counsel and defense counsel, each resulting in victory for his clients. He also represents clients in appeals to Colorado appellate courts.

Mr. Pulkrabek graduated with honors from the University of Colorado School of Law, where he was Notes and Comments Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and a Teaching Fellow in the legal writing program. He received his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Before entering private practice, Mr. Pulkrabek clerked for Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Mr. Pulkrabek regularly represents clients who have been the victims of fraud in the context of the purchase, sale, or merger of a businesses, or who have suffered losses due to a questionable investment schemes. Such cases frequently involve potential claims for malpractice against lawyers, accountants, or brokers.

Mr. Pulkrabek is a contributing author to the Lawyers’ Professional Liability in Colorado series as well as the Colorado Courtroom Handbook for Civil Trials. He lectures at continuing legal education seminars on topics involving lawyers’ professional liability and civil trial procedure.

Mr. Pulkrabek is a member of the American Bar Association, the Colorado Bar Association, and the Denver Bar Association. He is active in the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and has had the honor of representing that organization as amicus before the Colorado Supreme Court and successfully defending the oganization against improper efforts to subpoena confidential information. Mr. Pulkrabek is licensed to practice in state and federal courts in Colorado.

Areas of Practice

• Professional Liablity Litigation
  - Legal Malpractice
  - Real Estate Broker / Business Broker Malpractice
  - Accounting Malpractice
  - Stock Broker / Investment Advisor Malpractice
• Fraud and Business Tort Cases
  - Misrepresentations Made in the Purchase or Sale of Businesses
  - Breaches of Fiduciary Duty
  - Employee Fraud and Embezzlement
  - Trade Secret Theft and Unfair Competition
  - Interference with Business Opportunities
  - Fraudulent Transfers / Concealment of Assets
• Partnership Disputes and Minority Shareholder / Member Oppression
  - Business Dissolutions
  - Receivership Actions
  - Minority Owner Squeeze-Outs / Freeze-Outs
  - Self-Dealing and Diversion of Business Assets
• Commercial Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• Insurance Bad Faith Litigation and Coverage Disputes
• Civil Appeals

Publications

• Elizabeth Starrs & Ross Pulkrabek, "Post-Trial Motions and Issues," Chapter 22, Colorado Courtroom Handbook for Civil Trials (Victoria Swanson, ed., CLE in Colorado, Inc., 2006).
• Ross W. Pulrabek, "Collecting Fees," Chapter 13, Lawyers' Professional Liability in Colorado, 2nd Ed. (Michael T. Mihm, ed., CLE in Colorado, Inc., 2005).
• Michael M. McGawn & Ross W. Pulkrabek, "Protecting the Client from Securities Fraud on the Internet," Colorado Lawyer, April 2001.

Professional Activities and Honors

• Judicial Law Clerk, Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, Colorado Supreme Court, 1999-2000
• American Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association
  - Member Ethics Committee
  - Board of Governors
• Denver Bar Association
  - Second Vice President 2006-2007
  - Board of Trustees 2006-2008
• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
  - Eagle Member, Defender
  - Associate Editor, Civil Procedure Column, Trial Talk Magazine
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Associate Member
• Selected for inclusion in 2009 Colorado Super Lawyers, Rising Stars

Lectures and Seminars

• Speaker, "Attorneys' Liens" in 2007 Preventing Legal Malpractice Seminars, Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado (January 2007).
• Speaker, "Discovery Skills for Legal Staff in Colorado," Lorman Education Services, Denver, Colorado (March 2006, August 2006, August 2007)
• Speaker, "Collecting Fees" in 2006 Preventing Legal Malpractice Seminars, Colorado Bar Association, Denver, Colorado (February 2006).

Bar Admissions

• Colorado, 1999
• United States District Court for the District of Colorado, 2001
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2004

Education

• University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, J.D., 1999
  - Order of the Coif
  - Notes & Comments Editor, University of Colorado Law Review
  - Teaching Fellow, Legal Writing
  - Chief Justice Luis D. Rovira Constitutional Law Scholar
  - Leon & Dora Wolf Scholarship
  - Dufford & Brown Legal Writing Award
• The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, B.A., 1994
  - Major in English
  - Minor in Russian Language