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Bruce D. Pringle |
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Since his admission to the Colorado Bar in 1969, Mr. Pringle has represented major public corporations, smaller closely held business organizations, public entities, and private parties. Cases have encompassed virtually every aspect of commercial, constitutional, and products liability litigation. They have included corporate, partnership, contract, real estate, and other business disputes; commercial tort litigation; tax litigation; oil and gas litigation; securities and antitrust litigation; construction litigation; asbestos and other products liability cases involving death and serious personal injury; and First Amendment litigation.
During his long and diversified career as a litigation attorney, Mr. Pringle has served as lead counsel in many complex jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations. He has also handled approximately 100 appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the Colorado Court of Appeals.
From December of 1991, until he retired from the bench to re-enter the private practice of law in January of 2001, Mr. Pringle served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Colorado. His duties as a United States Magistrate Judge encompassed supervision and case management of the entire panoply of federal civil litigation, including federal employment, wage and hour, securities, antitrust, copyright, trademark, patent, Miller Act, and Civil Rights Act cases. He was also responsible for state tort, contract, business and statutory litigation pursuant to the federal court’s jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship. In the course of his 10 years of service as a United States Magistrate Judge, Mr. Pringle supervised and managed numerous complex commercial cases, including many class actions and other types of multiparty litigation.
While on the federal bench, Mr. Pringle was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court to serve on the Judicial conference of the United States Committee on the Budget, a group of federal appellate, district court, magistrate, and bankruptcy judges charged with the responsibility of formulating the annual budget for the federal judiciary and securing approval of the annual budget by Congress and the Executive Branch.
He served on the Committee on Conduct of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court Committee on the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, the Litigation Subcommittee for the Freedom of Information Council, the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Federal Advocates, and as President of the Arraj Inn of Court. Mr. Pringle received several appointments from federal and state judges to serve as Special Master in complex civil litigation. He currently serves as the Special Master by appointment of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming on 72 consolidated cases filed under the qui tam provisions of the Federal False Claims Act transferred to the District of Wyoming by the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation.
Mr. Pringle is the author of Colorado Law Annotated, and Colorado Law Annotated Revised Edition, a nine-volume legal treatise on Colorado law. He has also authored and published articles in the Colorado Lawyer. Mr. Pringle has taught and lectured extensively on a variety of legal topics.
He was a member of the committee established by the United States District Court for the District of Colorado to implement, administer, oversee, and evaluate the Court’s alternative dispute resolution plan, pursuant to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998. Mr. Pringle serves as a member of the Legal Resolution Center, a leading provider of mediation and arbitration services in the Rocky Mountain area.
Mr. Pringle joined Dill, Dill, Carr, Stonbraker & Hutchings, PC in 2006 as a Partner. He is the Director of the Litigation and Appeals Sections of the firm. Mr. Pringle has an “AV” rating in the Directory of Lawyers in the United States, published by Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethical standards. |
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Education |
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J.D., 1969, University of Colorado School of Law, first in his class and Order of the Coif, Frederick Storke Scholar, and Managing Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review |
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B.A., 1966, University of Colorado, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa |
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Professional Experience |
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2001-2005, private practice |
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1991-2001, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Colorado |
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1970-1991, private practice |
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1969-1970, Law Clerk, Honorable William E. Doyle, United States District, District of Colorado |
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Notable Cases and Representative Transactions |
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Mr. Pringle secured settlements totaling in excess of $6,000,000 on behalf of his clients in several complex commercial suits and arbitration proceedings. |
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He represented a distributor of wireless services and products in litigation, a two-week arbitration, and an appeal to the Colorado Court of Appeals. The litigation and arbitration included claims of breach of contract, civil conspiracy, and tortious interference with contractual relations. He obtained an arbitration award in favor of the client in the amount of $1,476,000, which was reduced to judgment, affirmed on appeal, and fully collected. |
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Mr. Pringle represented a subsidiary of a wireless service distributor in a week long American Arbitration Association arbitration proceeding involving very complex accounting issues arising out of the subsidiary’s purchase of a telephone business. He was able to prevail on all of the numerous accounting issues presented to the Arbitration, and secured an award in favor of his client in excess of $1,000,000. |
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He successfully represented the Rocky Mountain News in several libel and slander suits brought by public officials and public figures. All of these cases resulted in judgments in favor of the Rocky Mountain News. Mr. Pringle also represented the Rocky Mountain News in a variety of cases initiated by the client to secure relief from actions of governmental entities which impinged upon First Amendment rights, including gag orders, orders sealing records, and closing courtrooms to the public. |
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Mr. Pringle was successful in defeating attempts by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA) to condemn a three-block area owned by his client, for the proposed Centerstone Urban Renewal Project. The efforts to defeat DURA’s proposed condemnation included litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the Denver District Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the Colorado Supreme Court. |
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Mr. Pringle successfully defended a manufacturer of plastic injection molding machines in a suit brought in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado by a party who suffered severe hand injuries while working with an injection molding machine manufactured by his client. After a one-week trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of his client, and the verdict was affirmed on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. |
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He successfully defended a manufacturer of coal mills in a wrongful death suit brought in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. He was able to obtain a directed verdict at the close of the Plaintiff’s case, and the defense verdict was affirmed on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. |
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Mr. Pringle successfully represented Armstrong World Industries in a wrongful death action in the United States District Court for the district of Arizona. After a two-week trial, the jury rejected claims that the decedent had contracted mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos containing products manufactured by Armstrong, and returned a defense verdict. |
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