Anthony L. Leffert, Esq.

Education:
B.S. in Accounting, Northwest Missouri State University, 1978 With Honors
J.D., University of Nebraska, 1982
LLM in banking and financial law, Boston University, 1988

Bar and Courts:
Colorado
New York
Nebraska

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 and the Colorado Trial Lawyer Association. He is a Governor-appointee to Colorado’s Local Government Limited Gaming Impact Advisory Committee. He also serves as pro bono counsel to the Jefferson County Junior Association Baseball and has been actively involved in coaching youth sports.

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 in 1982 and obtained his LLM in banking and financial law from Boston University in 1988 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.

Areas of Practice:
Arbitration & Mediation
Banking & Finance
Business Disputes
Construction
Reorganization, Workouts & Bankruptcy
White Collar Criminal Defense

Practicing: Arbitration & Mediation, Banking & Finance, Business Disputes, Construction, Reorganization, Workouts & Bankruptcy and White Collar Criminal Defense