 Ron Sandgrund
Denver, Colorado
Of Counsel, since
1990
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Ron Sandgrund is the state's most prolific author of articles and books on
Colorado construction and materials defect law, and related insurance coverage issues. He has argued many cases before the Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court and U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Sandgrund files friend of the court (amicus) briefs expressing homeowner-advocacy groups' views. Court opinions have referred to his writings.
Mr. Sandgrund was born in New York in November, 1957 and moved to
Colorado in 1979 to attend the University of Colorado School of Law from which he graduated in 1982. Mr. Sandgrund previously obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and English from the State University of New York at
Albany in 1979, graduating magna cum laude. Mr. Sandgrund was a University of Colorado Law School trial advocacy instructor from 1994-2004. Before attending law school, he worked in a marine laboratory on the
Atlantic Coast . Mr. Sandgrund handles civil trials and appeals.
Mr. Sandgrund also lectures to the public and teaches continuing legal education and graduate courses on insurance, construction and civil liability matters. He has authored many articles on these same issues. Mr. Sandgrund co-authored with his partner, Scott Sullan, Residential Construction Law in Colorado, first published in 2005, the second edition of which came out in 2007. He co-wrote a chapter on residential construction in the multi-volume treatise The Practitioner's Guide to Colorado Construction Law (Robert Benson, ed.), first published in 1999, with a most recent publication date of 2007. Mr. Sandgrund and Mr. Sullan also co-wrote Residential Construction Defect Litigation, published in 2000.
Mr. Sandgrund has served on Colorado Bar Association committees regarding inter-professional relations, court reform and employment law. He testifies frequently on behalf of homeowners before Colorado's legislature, and he has participated significantly in drafting laws affecting homeowner interests, including
Colorado 's construction defect reform and homeowner protection statutes.
Mr. Sandgrund co-authored a seminal article concerning multi-family development liability called, "When the Developer Controls the Homeowner Association Board: The Benevolent Dictator?" found in the January, 2003, The Colorado Lawyer, a prominent Colorado law journal, as well as leading articles on Colorado's Construction Defect Action Reform Acts of 2001 and 2003, found in the October, 2001 and July, 2003 editions of The Colorado Lawyer. More recently, Mr. Sandgrund co-authored articles on "extrapolation" evidence and "useful life" evidence published nationwide in Mealey's Litigation Report: Construction Defects, Vol. 7, Iss. 4 (May 2006) [Another Perspective on Extrapolation Evidence] and The Construction Lawyer , Vol. 27, No. 3, (Amer. Bar Assoc. Forum on the Construction Industry) (Summer, 2007) [Useful Life Evidence in Construction Defect Cases].
Journal articles co-authored by Mr. Sandgrund were chosen to be republished nationwide in the Thompson-West's Legal Handbook for Architects, Engineers and Contractors, in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 as reflecting cutting-edge thinking in construction litigation.
Mr. Sandgrund has extensive experience trying construction defect, product liability, and insurance lawsuits. Mr. Sandgrund served as co-counsel with his partner Scott Sullan in a class action trial in 1996, which trial resulted in a verdict on all liability issues presented to the jury. The case is believed to be the largest residential home expansive soils case ever tried to a jury. In 1996, Mr. Sandgrund negotiated
Colorado 's largest homebuilder construction defect related settlement on behalf of over 12,300 homeowners, and in 2005 he concluded a $32.5 million settlement on behalf of the owners of over 12,000 homes with defective and leaking windows.
Mr. Sandgrund joined the firm in 1982. He was managing partner from 1990 until late 2007. He became "Of Counsel" to the firm in October, 2007, but remains involved in select legal briefing, appellate work and insurance coverage matters. Mr. Sandgrund resides with his wife, Cheryl, in
Boulder , where, if he is not attending to his practice, he usually is found on a tennis, racquetball, or basketball court, or on a hiking, skiing or mountain biking trail.
- 1982
- Construction Defect
- Product Liability
- Tort and Insurance Lawsuits
- University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado,
1982
- State University of New York at Albany,
1979
Bachelors of Arts (Psychology and English)
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Major: Psychology
Major: English
- Colorado Residential Construction Law, (Denver 2008, 2nd edition), co-author with Scott Sullan (replacing 2005 1st edition)
- Robert Benson, Practitioner's Guide to Colorado Construction Law, Residential Construction (Chapter XIV) (Denver 2007) (replacing 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005 editions), co-author with Scott Sullan
- Residential Construction Defect Litigation, (Seattle 2000), co-author with Scott Sullan
- Crossing the Separation of Powers Threshold: Legislative and Regulatory Control of Expert Witness Testimony, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 37, No. 5, 2008
- Useful Life Evidence in Construction Defect Cases, The Construction Lawyer (Amer. Bar Assoc. Forum on the Construction Industry ), Vol. 27, No. 3, 2007
- The Homeowner Protection Act of 2007, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 36, Iss. 7, 2007
- Liability Insurance Coverage for Breach of Contract Damages, The Colorado Lawyer, Vo. 36, No. 2, 2007
- Another Perspective on Extrapolation Evidence, Mealey's Litigation Report: Construction Defects, Vol. 7, Iss. 4, 2006
- Yacht Club II: Charting the Shoals of the Economic Loss Rule, Trial Talk, August-September, 2005
- Homebuilder Liability for Subcontractor Negligence - Part II, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 34, No. 7, 2005
- Homebuilder Liability for Subcontractor Negligence - Part I, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 34, No. 6, 2005
- Statutes of Limitations and Repose in Construction Defect Cases - Part II, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 6, 2005
- Statutes of Limitations and Repose in Construction Defect Cases - Part I, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 5, 2005
- The Construction Defect Action Reform Act of 2003, The Colorado Lawyer, reprinted nationally in Mealey's Litigation Reports (Construction Defects), Vol. 32, No. 7 and Vol. 20, p. 205, 2004
- All I Really Needed to Know I Learned as a New Associate, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 33, No. 7, 2004
- Duty to Disclose Latent Defects When Selling a Home, National Business Institute, 2003
- When the Developer Controls the Homeowner Association Board: The Benevolent Dictator?, The Colorado Lawyer, reprinted nationally in Mealey's Litigation Reports (Construction Defects), Vol. 31, No. 1, 2002
- The Construction Defect Action Reform Act, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 30, No. 10, 2001
- Colorado Construction Law: Liability Insurance Coverage Issues Arising from Faulty Construction, Continuing Legal Education of Colorado, 1999
- The Insurer's Unreasonable Failure To Defend: Enough to Prove Bad Faith?, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 23, No. 5, 1994
- The Lost or Missing Insurance Policy, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 22, No. 6, 1993
- Your First Deposition, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 36, No. 11, 2007
- Effects of Violation of C.R.S. 11-43-101 on Out of State Savings and Loan, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1987
- Explaining The Homeowner Protection Act of 2007, Common Interests Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 8, 2007
- The Construction Defect Action Reform Act, Common Interests Magazine, Vol. 19, No. 8, 2001
- The Docket, Denver Bar Association, Contributor, 2004 - Present
- Trial Advocacy Instructor, University of Colorado Law School,
1994
-
2004
- Guest Lecturer, Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver,
August 1, 2007
- Present
- Residential Construction Law in Colorado, Continuing Legal Educatrion of Colorado,
2005
- How to Litigate Claims of Undisclosed Defects in Real Estate Transactions in Colorado: Liability Insurance Coverage for Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure Claims, National Business Institute,
2003
- When the Developer Controls the Homeowner Association Board: The Benevolent Capitalist?, Community Associations Institute Convention,
2001
- Colorado Construction Law and Liability Insurance Coverage Issues Arising from Faulty Construction, Continuing Legal Education of Colorado,
1999
- Minimizing the Risk of Loss to the Survey Professional, Professional Land Surveyors of Denver,
1995
- Insurer's Reservation of its Rights, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Company,
1994
- Americans with Disabilities Act, Boulder County Developmental Disabilities Center,
1994
- Tort Liability and Liability Insurance, Boulder County Developmental Disabilities Center,
1988
-
1991
- Practical and Evidentiary Comments on the Use of a Biomechanical Engineer in the Defense of Personal Injury Claims, Otis Elevator Company (United Technologies),
1988
- Atlantic Coast Marine Laboratory
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