Gordon W. Netzorg

Mr. Netzorg regularly serves as an arbitrator and mediator as a member of American Arbitration Association's Complex Commercial Case arbitration and mediation panels.

Arbitration cases have included large complex commercial contracts; banking lending practices; finder’s fees; intellectual property; computer software; programming; patents; unfair trade practices; breach of fiduciary duties; fraud; accounting and tax; professional liability; FLSA; putative class actions; collateralized debt; business breakups; natural resources, mining and oil and gas disputes; tribal conflicts; securities and investments; gaming facilities; sports controversies; and real estate matters.

Mediation cases have included breach of fiduciary duty; breach of trust; registered representative (stock broker) misconduct; entity breakups; professional malpractice; insurance coverage; breach of contract; divorce; auto accidents; large, complex estate and trust matters; antitrust. Many of these cases have been multiparty mediations.

For years, Mr. Netzorg’s practice focused on complex, multi-party commercial litigation, with an emphasis on partnership, limited liability company, and corporate disputes; officer and director liability, bond litigation, securities and fraud litigation; natural resources including oil and gas, mining disputes; lender liability, estate, banking, and real estate litigation. He is now transitioning his practice to full time ADR, where he has developed a unique approach to mediation. The process has yielded a number of successful settlements of multi-party disputes in the $100 million to $300 million range at the high end.

Mr. Netzorg has successfully tried and obtained verdicts, judgments and arbitration awards in a wide variety of complex commercial cases including 8-figure awards and 9-figure settlement. Typical cases involved issues as diverse as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, corporate governance, business and investment fraud, real estate, debtor-lender disputes, estate disputes, intellectual property and natural resources.

• Juris Doctor, with honors, Syracuse University, 1976 Articles Editor, Syracuse Law Review
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1970

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (Chair, Colorado State Committee 2010-2012)
• Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Past President and Past Chair, Commercial Law Section,  Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
• Top 10 Colorado Super Lawyers 2013-2023 (ranked #2 for 2018 and 2020 and #3 for 2019), Top 100 Colorado Super Lawyers 2012-2020, Top 50 Colorado Super Lawyers 2006-2011
• Best of the Bar Award for Securities Law 2005
• Listed since 1995 in Best Lawyers in America, current categories include: Arbitration, Mediation, Bet-the-Company Litigation,  Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Banking and Finance, Litigation- Real Estate, Litigation-Securities
• Best Lawyers' 2010 and 2013 Litigation Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year and 2019 Litigation-Securities Lawyer of the Year, Denver, CO
• Recognized by 5280 Magazine as Top Lawyer-Commercial Litigation 2015-2022
• IAALS Rebuilding Justice Award, April 2015
• American College of Trial Lawyers Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice

Two parties-$375 hr. per party; three parties-$325 hr. per party; four parties-$275 hr. per party.