Anthony L. Leffert

Anthony L. Leffert is a partner in the firm's litigation practice group and represents clients in litigation throughout the United States and regularly has cases in Colorado, New York, California, Texas and Florida.  Tony has tried more than 100 jury and court trials.

Tony has more than twenty-five years' experience litigating complex business, real estate, fraud, bankruptcy, construction and white collar criminal defense cases.

His recent trials include:

• successful prosecution in a jury trial involving the defective design of oil field equipment and fraud, and successful defense of counterclaims of more than $1 million;
• successful prosecution and settlement of a case for a corporate executive wrongfully terminated by the purchaser of his business;
• successful defense at trial of a real estate developer together with a judgment for the developer on its counterclaims;
• successful defense of a $4.7 million claim for defective software in federal court in New York;
• successful defense of two related real estate development cases in Colorado;
• successful prosecution of an employment and breach of fiduciary duty case in Nevada; and
• successful recovery of disputed administrative fees in the General Motors Bankruptcy in New York.

Tony is a member of the Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and is a Governor-appointee to Colorado's Local Government Limited Gaming Impact Advisory Committee.  Additionally, he a Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Colorado Bar Association, a member of The Faculty of Federal Advocates, a Denver-based organization dedicated to improving the quality of legal practice in Colorado.  Tony is actively involved in coaching youth sports and serves as pro bono counsel to Jefferson County Junior Association Baseball.  

Tony graduated from Northwest Missouri State University, with a B.S. in  Accounting with honors. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Nebraska and obtained his LLM in banking and financial law from Boston University where he was the Senino Award winner. He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, New York and Nebraska.

Tony served as a Federal Prosecutor with the Criminal Division, Fraud Section, in Washington D.C. and was later appointed Deputy Special Counsel to the Attorney General for Financial Institution Fraud and worked as an advisor to Attorney General Janet Reno.