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DONALD D. ALLEN is of counsel with the law firm of Markus Williams Young & Zimmermann LLC. Mr. Allen has more than 25 years of experience advising borrowers and commercial lenders regarding sale and financing of real property, with an emphasis on distressed property situations. He is a business bankruptcy specialist certified by the American Board of Certification. Mr. Allen has presented numerous continuing professional education seminars dealing with real estate and title issues, and bankruptcy law and served as an instructor of business law at the University of Phoenix for five years. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his J.D. degree from the University of Santa Clara, where he was an editor of the Santa Clara Law Review and received the Trial Attorney's Outstanding Oral Advocate Award. Mr. Allen is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association. He was recently selected for inclusion in the 2010 Colorado Super Lawyers for bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights. ROBERT T. EDWARDS is national counsel for Westcor Land Title Insurance Company in its Denver office. For many years previously, Mr. Edwards was senior vice president and general title counsel for United General Title Insurance Company. He was a state public defender in Mississippi before entering a real estate and civil litigation law practice in Memphis, Tennessee, where he practiced for several years. After relocating to Colorado, Mr. Edwards served as Rocky Mountain Regional Counsel for other title insurance underwriters before joining United General Title Insurance Company. The majority of his 35 plus years of law practice has been devoted to real estate transactions and litigation, and title insurance, as both in-house and outside counsel. Mr. Edwards is admitted to practice in Colorado, Tennessee and Mississippi. He is a past president of the Land Title Association of Colorado and continues to serves on the Education and Legislative committees of that association. Mr. Edwards also serves on the Title Standards Committee of the Colorado Bar Association and the Forms Committee of the American Land Title Association. He has written numerous articles and frequently lectures on real estate law and title insurance-related topics. Mr. Edwards earned his B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University and his J.D. degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law. TERYL R. GORRELL is a shareholder in the Denver law firm of Gorrell Giles PC, where he has practiced real estate law for more than 30 years. Mr. Gorrell represents developers and capital providers in the structuring, development and operation of a wide variety of projects in the United States and Mexico. These include commercial, medical, industrial, retail, resort, residential, condominium, affordable housing, historic preservation and mixed use developments. His real estate work includes land acquisition, title assurance, entitlements, zoning, land use planning, financing, construction, ground and vertical leasing, property management, condominium creation and property sales. Mr. Gorrell also assists clients with complex equity and debt structuring, including limited liability companies, limited partnerships, corporations, foreign ownership and finance entities, joint ventures, real estate investment trusts, public/private ventures, horizontal and vertical lending, tax credit and tax increment financing. He has served as an expert witness on real estate and title insurance matters. Mr. Gorrell has lectured to both professional associations and trade associations on real estate topics. He is a member of The Colorado (member, Real Property Section) and Denver bar associations. Mr. Gorrell also is the past chair of Historic Denver, Inc. He earned his B.A. degree, with highest honors, from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. degree from the University of Denver College of Law. Mr. Gorrell has been named as a Colorado Super Lawyer from 2006 through 2010. ALEXANDER R. ROTHROCK is a shareholder with the Englewood law firm of Burns, Figa & Will, P.C. His practice areas include legal ethics and the law of practicing law. Mr. Rothrock earned his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his J.D. degree from DePaul University College of Law. He is the author of the book, Essays on Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct in Colorado (Continuing Legal Education of Colorado, Inc. 2003) and he is a frequent speaker for various professional groups. Mr. Rothrock is admitted to practice in the states of Colorado and Illinois, the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Colorado and Northern Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He is a former chair of the Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee.
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