Tim Guill: Your Colorado Workers Compensation Attorney
Before moving to Colorado to open my specialized practice as a workers compensation lawyer, I lived in Texas. I was born and raised in the oil fields of Baytown, a heavily industrial and blue-collar region. As a kid, I remember climbing the oil derricks in order to look out over the Gulf, watching the oil tankers come in to the Houston ship channel. Like my childhood friends, I too came from a working class family. Like any other blue-collar kid, I grew up understanding the important role played by workers compensation attorneys. To me, a workers comp attorney was there to help if somebody got injured at work, allowing them to still put food on the table and not lose everything they had worked for.
Somewhere in the back of my mind this connection to workers compensation attorneys stuck. Although it took me awhile to find my way to becoming a Colorado workmans compensation attorney, my personal background with workers compensation attorneys nonetheless guided me into the legal profession. I graduated from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1978. Immediately after graduating I worked as a felony prosecutor for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston. Later, I joined the State of Texas Attorney General’s Office, representing the state in civil litigation matters. Sometimes these cases involved workers compensation claims, requiring me to work as a workers compensation lawyer.
In 1987 I moved to the private practice as a member of a large, San Antonio based law firm. Here I defended insurance companies as a workers comp attorney against workers compensation claims. However, I soon learned this was not for me. Although I enjoyed the legal practice, especially working as a workers compensation lawyer, I wanted something better for my family. In 1990 I moved to Colorado to raise my children in an environment that offered substantially more outdoor recreation opportunities. I wanted my kids to be able to wake up every morning and be greeted by the panoramic vistas of the Rocky Mountains and spend their weekends exploring the plethora of National Parks and wilderness areas the great state of Colorado has to offer.
Once in Colorado, I continued to represent insurance companies as a Colorado workers compensation attorney, specializing in defending against workers compensation claims filed by injured workers. Although this specialized work as a workers comp attorney allowed me to become an expert in all areas of the Colorado Workers Compensation Act, to be perfectly honest, I hated it. Defending insurance companies against claims made by working men and women just didn’t feel right. It went against who I was and what I was raised to believe: A blue-collar kid who respected workers compensation and what it did for our country’s injured workers. In 1993 this long-held belief and respect for workers compensation caused me to switch sides in order to represent injured workers as a Denver workers compensation attorney.
I don’t regret my work defending insurance companies as a workers compensation lawyer. In fact, I wouldn’t be the Colorado workmans compensation attorney I am today if it were not for that experience. As a workers comp attorney representing the insurance companies, I was able to get to know insurance adjusters personally and their defense strategies in detail. I came to know adjusters' biases, prejudices, strengths and weaknesses, which now helps me tremendously when evaluating a workers compensation claim as a Colorado workmans compensation attorney. It is because I have experience as both a defense workers comp attorney and as a plaintiffs workers compensation lawyer that I am regarded as an expert Denver workers compensation attorney. I have handled over a thousand cases as a Colorado workers compensation attorney - everything from temporary injuries to permanent disabilities, quadriplegia, and death claims. My experience means there is not a workers compensation case I can't handle.
My commitment to and respect for the workers compensation system goes back to my childhood days in Baytown, Texas. Representing the injured workers of Colorado as a Colorado workmans compensation attorney is what I enjoy most. Call me today so we can set up a free initial consultation and discuss how I can help you in your workers compensation claim.
