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Attorney Profiles-Jouard & Pickering, P.C. A 2007 Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers Personal Injury Law Firm Robert G. Pickering For over 15 years, Mr. Pickering has received the highest legal ability peer review rating of "Preeminent" awarded to lawyers by the leading law directory of the United States. He is listed in the 2007 Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers-Personal Injury Lawyers. Accident, personal injury,and wrongful death trial work is Mr. Pickering's specialty. Mr. Pickering has represented those who have suffered losses caused by catastrophic personal injury or by the death of a loved one. For nearly thirty years, Mr. Pickering has represented clients suffering catastrophic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputations, major burn injuries, electrocution and shock injury, orthopaedic and other internal injuries, chronic pain syndromes and other injuries, and the families of those who have passed away due to the negligence of others. Mr. Pickering is licensed to practice law in the federal and state courts of Colorado, Wyoming and California. He is a past member of the Board of Directors, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and a past Co-Chair of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Amicus Committee, responsible for filing "friend of the court briefs" in the Supreme Court of Colorado and other courts. Mr. Pickering is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Professional Negligence Section, and the Wyoming Trial Lawyers. He is a former judicial law clerk to a Chief Judge of a United States District Court and to a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Mr. Pickering has taught other lawyers at seminars in Colorado, Wyoming and Canada. Mr. Pickering prosecutes actions in a variety of areas, including medical and hospital malpractice; surgical injuries; pathology; radiology, and medical laboratory malpractice; failure to timely diagnose cancer (breast, lung, uterine, cervical, prostate, and colorectal) cases; infectious disease cases; heart attack and stroke cases; therapist abuse cases; defective products; biomedical, drug and pharmaceutical product liability; truck, railroad (FELA), and automobile accidents; SUV and tractor rollovers; construction and industrial accidents; farm and ranch injuries; bad faith insurance practices; professional negligence; oil and gas and other natural resource litigation; and in commercial and business cases. He may be reached at bob@jouardpickering.com Stephen J. Jouard Mr. Jouard has received the highest legal ability peer review rating of "Preeminent" awared to lawyers. He is listed in the 2007 Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers-Personal Injury Lawyers. Mr. Jouard specializes in all aspects of trial work and has argued a number of appeals in various federal courts of appeals and state intermediate and supreme courts. Mr. Jouard, a native of Boulder, Colorado, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and obtained his juris doctorate from the University of Wyoming. While in law school, Mr. Jouard co-authored Establishing the Tort of Bad Faith in Wyoming for the Land and Water Law Review. During the first 5 years of his career, Mr. Jouard worked diligently for insurance companies and corporations, where he got an insider's view of how insurance companies evaluate and handle claims. Having assisted in defending hundreds of cases on behalf of insurance companies and corporations, he fully understands the corporate perspective on claims handling and trying cases against victims of personal injuries in Colorado and Wyoming. For the last 17 years, he has exclusively represented people and their families against large corporations and insurance companies. Mr. Jouard is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association. He is licensed to practice in all of the state and federal courts in Colorado and Wyoming. Mr. Jouard represents clients who have suffered serious injuries or from the death of a loved one from construction and industrial accidents; farm and ranch equipment; dangerous premises; gas explosions; electrocution and shock injuries; truck and automobile collisions; medical and hospital negligence; failure to diagnose cancer cases; pathology and laboratory negligence; and other causes. He has particular expertise in bad faith insurance practices, insurance coverage issues, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, health and life insurance claims, workers compensation, subrogation and lien issues; breach of contract; and other business cases. Mr. Jouard has taught other lawyers in seminars devoted to workers compensation, personal injury and insurance issues. He may be reached at steve@jouardpickering.com
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