Email: mchappell@SweetbaumSands.com
Marilyn Chappell is Special Counsel to Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC. She has extensive experience in handling appeals and insurance litigation and insurance coverage issues for a number of insurance clients. She also has substantial experience in commercial litigation matters. Her practice includes advocacy at the trial court and appellate levels, in state and federal courts, in Colorado and in other jurisdictions.
She is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. She began her legal career as a judicial law clerk for Chief Justice Joseph Quinn of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Admitted to Practice:
- Colorado – 1984
- United States District Court, District of Colorado – 1985
- Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals – 1985
- U.S. Supreme Court – 1994
Education:
- University of Colorado School of Law, J.D. 1984
- Colorado State University, B.A. English, with highest distinction, 1981
- Boettcher Foundation Scholar
Memberships and Professional Experience:
- Colorado Judicial Institute, Board Member
- Faculty of Federal Advocates, Board Member; Chair, Communications Committee; Editor, FFA Newsletter
- Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, Member, Amicus Committee
- Our Courts public education on courts nonprofit, Member, Executive Committee
- Colorado Bar Association/Denver Bar Association Joint Judicial Task Force, Member
- Minoru Yasui Inn of Court, Member, Executive Council
Selected Opinions:
- Estate of Brookoff v. Clark, 2018 WL 4656443 (Colo. 2018)
- High Impact, LLC v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., No. 17CA1670 (Colo. App. Sept. 27, 2018)
- Snyder v. ACORD, 684 Fed.Appx. 710 (10th Cir. 2017)
- Fidelity Nat’l Title Ins. Co. v. Woody Creek Ventures, LLC, 830 F.3d 1209 (10th Cir. 2016)
- McCulley v. State Farm Bank, No. 16CA1293, 2017 WL 2222341 (Colo. App. May 18, 2017)
- Stoesz v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., No. 14CA0956, 2015 WL 3776869 (Colo. App. June 18, 2015)
- In Re DCP Midstream, LP v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., 303 P.3d 1187 (Colo. 2013)
- Peters v. Texas Instruments Inc., No. 10C–06–043-JRJ, 2011 WL 4686518 (Del. Super. Sept. 30, 2011), aff’d, 58 A.3d 414 (Mem) (Del. 2013)
- Kelly v. CBS Corp., No. 2:11–67269–ER, 2014 WL 6735121 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 18, 2014)
- Iskowitz v. Cessna, No. 07-CV-00968-REB-CBS, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88791 (D. Colo. Aug. 5, 2010)
Selected Publications and Presentations:
- “More Moving Motions,” Faculty of Federal Advocates Federal District Court Bench/Bar Roundtable, April 20, 2018
- “Keep It Simple, . . .,” Colorado Judicial Institute “Straight Talk with Judges” CLE Program, March 1, 2018
- Testimony to House Judiciary Committee on judicial performance evaluation statutes on behalf of Colorado Judicial Institute, April 18, 2017
- “Top Ten Rules for Effective Legal Research and Writing,” Faculty of Federal Advocates CLE program, August 25, 2016
- “Rule 16(b): Do the Court’s Form Scheduling Order and Bar’s Present Practices Advance Rule 1?”, Faculty of Federal Advocates Federal District Court Bench/Bar Roundtable, April 8, 2016
- “Proposed Changes to the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure,” Colorado Judicial Institute “Straight Talk With Judges” CLE program, April 9, 2015
- “State Models Judicial Selection Process,” Law Week Colorado, August 26, 2014
- Coordinated/moderated CLE program inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In book, September 13, 2013
- “Liability Insurance: Notice-Prejudice After Friedland,” The Colorado Lawyer, 2006
