About David
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.
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.
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Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Banking and Finance, Denver (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Securities, Denver (2021)
- Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Antitrust, Denver (2020)
- Recognized: Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Recognized: Commercial Litigation
- Recognized: Litigation - Antitrust
- Recognized: Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Recognized: Litigation - Securities
- Practice Area: Antitrust Law
- Practice Area: Banking and Finance Law
- Practice Area: Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Practice Area: Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Special Focus: Antitrust
- Special Focus: Business Disputes
- Special Focus: Civil Litigation
- Special Focus: Commercial Disputes
- Special Focus: Counseling
- Special Focus: Derivatives
- Special Focus: Energy
- Special Focus: Finance
- Special Focus: Insurance
- Special Focus: Litigation
- Special Focus: Securities
- Special Focus: 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