McConaty Becomes First Colorado ABOTA Member to Earn Diplomate Status

DENVER (June 9, 2009) – Medical malpractice attorney, Brian McConaty is the first Colorado member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) to earn Diplomate status. 

ABOTA is an of association lawyers working to improve the ethical and technical standards of advocacy and aid in the education and training of trial lawyers.  The group’s primary purpose is to preserve and protect the right to a jury trial. 

Diplomate status is given to lawyers who have at least 12 years of active experience as a trial lawyer and who have tried a minimum of 100 trials to a jury verdict as lead counsel. 

McConaty’s first trial was as a deputy district attorney in Glenwood Springs and his subsequent criminal prosecutions include some of the most notorious cases in Colorado history, including the Ted Bundy and Claudine Longet cases. 

Then, as a federal prosecutor, he tried and convicted the FBI’s then “most wanted” criminal, a heroin dealer who during the course of the FBI’s investigation had killed 10 people.  After being sent to Leavenworth prison, the dealer became the only prisoner to escape from there.  The escaped dealer was killed during a police shoot-out. 

McConaty has been involved in several precedent-setting trials, both civil and criminal.  One established law enforcement use of transponders to track suspected criminals.  Most recently McConaty defended a doctor accused of malpractice after a professional athlete had revisional ankle surgery.   

Robinson Waters & O'Dorisio, P.C. was founded in 1976.  The firm has 27-lawyers serving clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region and is engaged in a comprehensive legal practice heavily based in litigation, commercial transactions, real estate, gaming, franchise and family law.

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