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Ronald M. Sandgrund
Ronald M. Sandgrund, Esq.
Sullan2, Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C.
1875 Lawrence St., Ste. 850
Denver, CO 80202 (303) 779-0077 Ronald M. Sandgrund has extensive experience litigating construction defect, construction materials, multi-family community, class action, and insurance lawsuits. Mr. Sandgrund and his law firm have been appointed as class counsel in nine cases, including one of the largest residential homeowner class actions ever certified, the 1996 Mission Viejo case. Mission Viejo was one of the very few Colorado class action lawsuits to be tried on its liability merits to a jury. He and his firm also were appointed class counsel in the 2004 Oldach/Outlook Windows case, involving over 30,000 Colorado homeowners. Mr. Sandgrund was the lead negotiator with Richmond Homes that led to a class action settlement on behalf of over 25,000 Colorado homeowners in 1996, the largest single-family construction defect class action settlement in Colorado's history.
Mr. Sandgrund was managing principal for the Denver law firm Sullan2, Sandgrund, Smith & Perczak, P.C. (formerly known as Vanatta, Sullan, Sandgrund, Sullan & Smith, P.C.) from 1990 until October 2007, and he remains “of counsel” to the firm. Mr. Sandgrund and coauthor Scott Sullan have worked together since 1980. Mr. Sandgrund lectures on insurance and construction defect liability issues and regularly authors articles on insurance and construction law. He co-authored Residential Construction Defect Litigation (A View From the Trenches) (Seattle: 2000) with Mr. Sullan, as well as the “Residential Construction” chapter in The Practitioner's Guide to Colorado Construction Law (Robert Benson, editor) published by CLE in Colorado, Inc. Many journal articles co-authored by Mr. Sandgrund were chosen to be republished nationwide in the Legal Handbook for Architects, Engineers and Contractors (Albert Dib, editor) (Thomson Reuters/West) from 2004 to 2009 as reflecting “cutting-edge thinking” in “construction litigation.”
Mr. Sandgrund has served on Colorado Bar Association committees regarding inter-professional relations, court reform, and employment law. He also has testified before the Colorado Legislature regarding proposed laws affecting Colorado homeowners and was instrumental in helping write portions of the Construction Defect Action Reform Act and Homeowner Protection Act. Mr. Sandgrund has testified as an expert witness regarding insurance policy compilation and construction, and insurance claims handling practices and standards, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and on the reasonableness of class counsel attorney fees and costs in the Colorado District Court. Mr. Sandgrund sometimes writes topical essays in The Colorado Lawyer for new attorneys and in The Docket for the Denver Bar.
Mr. Sandgrund was born in New York in November 1957, and obtained a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and English from the State University of New York at Albany, graduating magna cum laude. In 1979, Mr. Sandgrund moved to Colorado to attend the University of Colorado School of Law and graduated in 1982. Mr. Sandgrund was a trial advocacy instructor at the University of Colorado Law School from 1994 to 2004. Before attending law school, Mr. Sandgrund worked in a marine laboratory and clam and oyster hatchery on the Atlantic Coast.
Mr. Sandgrund resides with his wife, Cheryl, in Boulder, where, if he is not attending to his practice, he usually can be found on a tennis, racquetball, or basketball court, or on a hiking, skiing, or mountain biking trail.
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