Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

For the past 14 years, Cass has represented developers, contractors, homeowners associations and individual homeowners in construction defect cases. For the last 8 years, Cass has focused solely on representing homeowners and homeowners associations in construction defect actions. Cass has served for 4 years on the board of directors for the Community Associations Institute (CAI), an organization of 500 members in Denver that focuses on community association issues.

He also served as the President of CAI in 2004. Cass has spoken on construction defect-related topics throughout the Front Range and numerous mountain communities. He has also participated in state legislative committees on various issues relating to construction defect laws in Colorado, including co-authoring Amendment 34, a homeowner rights initiative placed on the 2004 general election ballot. Cass has also served the Denver community as an appointee of Mayor Hickenlooper to the St. Anthonys Central Development Task Force and is a member of the Colorado chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). In addition, Cass was lead counsel for the firm’s precedent-setting Supreme Court victory in the Yacht Club II case. Yacht Club II has been cited on numerous occasions by other attorneys in legal articles and court pleadings.

Cass attended the University of Oklahoma receiving his undergraduate degree in business administration in 1987. Cass attended the University of San Francisco Law School and received his law degree in 1992.

Areas of Practice

• Construction Defects (Representing Homeowners and HOAs)
• Product Liability - Defective Construction Products and Materials
• Expansive Soils and other Geologic Hazards (Representing Homeowners and HOAs)
• Civil Trial Practice (Representing Homeowners and HOAs)
• Civil Appellate Practice - Colorado Court of Appeal & Supreme Court of Colorado
• Class Actions (Representing Homeowners)
• Insurance Bad Faith

Representative Clients

• Homeowners and Homeowners Associations

Representative Cases

• A.C. Excavating, et al. v. Yacht Club II Homeowners Ass'n, Inc., 114 P.3d 862 (Supreme Court of Colorado 2005)

Bar Admissions

• California, 1992
• Colorado, 1998

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Community Associations Institute, 2002 - 2006 (Board of Directors)
• The Entrepreneurs' Organization, 2005 - Present (Member)

Classes and Seminars

• Construction Defect Claims in Colorado, Lorman Education Services, 2006
• Construction Defect Seminars, CAI Rocky Mountian Chapter (numerous)
• Construction Defect Seminars, CAI Southern Colorado Chapter (numerous)

Past Employment Positions

• Knox Ricksen, 1992 - 1998

Education

• University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, 1992
  J.D.
• University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1987
  B.A.
  Major: Business

Published Works

• Amendment 34, (Co-Author)

Address

10457 Park Meadows Drive
Building #2, Suite 101
Lonetree, CO 80124

Phones

(303) 561-4750

Faxes

(303) 561-4754

Emails

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Websites

http://www.mrhllc.com