Corina De Lemos Gerety, JD

You could always make me think and laugh. You so often brought calm (and sense) to my chaos and I will hold those lessons close so I can tap into them when I need them.
— Alli Gerkman, former colleague and dear friend (1978-2019)

Education

University of Puget Sound, Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy (IPE), cum laude and with honors in IPE, 1998

University of Colorado Law School, Doctor of Jurisprudence, top 12% of class, 2003 

Colorado Bar Association Leadership Training (COBALT), 2015


Judicial Clerkships

The Honorable Paul A. Markson, Jr. and the Honorable Martin F. Egelhoff, Denver District Court, 2003-2005

The Honorable William R. Lucero, Office of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge (attorney ethics), 2005

The Honorable Nathan Ben Coats, Colorado Supreme Court, 2005-2006


Previous Work

Assistant Attorney General, Appellate Division, Office of the Colorado Attorney General, 2006-2009

Research Manager (2009-2013) and Director of Research (2013-2016), University of Denver’s Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), 2009-2016

Freelance Attorney, 2016-2018


Bar Memberships

Admitted to practice in Colorado, 2003

Member, Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, including the Trust & Estate Section

Member, Colorado Women’s Bar Association


Board Service

Brave Coalition, Anti-Bias Community Organization in Denver, Co-Founder and Board Treasurer, 2016-2021

Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition's Probate Power Program, Affordable Legal Services for the Disability Community, Advisory Board Member, 2017-2019


Project & Committee Work

Colorado Bar Association’s Trusts and Estate Section: Orange Book Committee (including Colorado Uniform Trust Code Subcommittee and the Special Needs Trust Subcommittee), Rules and Forms Committee, and Statutory Revisions Committee, 2018 to present

Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Foundations for Practice Advisory Committee, 2014-2015

American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, 2009-2014

Oxford University Press Chinese Journal of International Law, 2009-2013 

Federal Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules Employment Protocols Committee, 2011

Colorado Board of Law Examiners, 2006-2011