Robert has served many roles for the program including teaching, volunteering as a senior partner, participating as a guest lecturer and judging the oral arguments. Robert previously served a clerkship with the Colorado Court of Appeals, and continued his practice as a trial lawyer with an appellate focus. As an associate with Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor & Pascoe, P.C., Robert managed litigation matters in the areas of real estate, creditors’ rights in bankruptcy, contracts, and general commercial disputes. Among other appellate matters, Robert successfully briefed a case before the Colorado Supreme Court. Robert’s work at Ireland Stapleton built upon his previous trial experience with Chrisman Bynum & Johnson, P.C., now Faegre & Benson LLP. Robert has litigated cases to and through trial at the Colorado district court level, as well as in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado. Robert currently serves on the Colorado Bar Association’s Litigation Section Council, the executive board for the section of the Bar Association that represents all Colorado trial lawyers and litigators. Robert brings diverse teaching experience beyond his background in the Lawyering Process program itself, experience that includes teaching an introduction to the legal system to San Francisco middle school students, mentoring Boulder high school students participating as advocates in the Teen Court program, instructing classes of prospective law students preparing to take the LSAT, and teaching appellate brief writing to practicing lawyers. Robert lives in Denver with his wife, a tenured professor in DU’s history department, and their two sons.