About Julie Anderson
Julie Anderson has been a Colorado resident since 1989. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and English from William Smith College, then attended the University of Denver as a dual-degree student, studying law at the Sturm College of Law and psychology at the Graduate School of Psychology. Ms. Anderson began her private practice in plaintiff's personal injury, workers' compensation, and criminal defense, completing dozens of jury trials and litigating multiple cases through the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court. In 1999 she was appointed magistrate for Denver County Court, presiding over civil, criminal, and juvenile matters. In 2005 she was appointed municipal judge for the City of Aurora, and in 2010 for the City of Littleton.
She returned to Anderson Hemmat in a full-time capacity in 2011. Her graduate work, including her master's thesis, focused on jury selection and behavior, and she is frequently consulted on jury selection. Ms. Anderson is a former president of the Colorado Women's Bar Association, a Fellow at both the Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado Women's Bar Association, and a board member and Chair's Roundtable member of the Colorado Lawyer's Committee. She co-authored an update of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure with Colorado Supreme Court Justice William Hobbs.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Anderson Hemmat
These results are credited to Anderson Hemmat. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Chad Hemmat and co-counsel secured a $33 million wrongful death verdict for the mother of a 30-year-old Aurora engineer killed when a driver traveling nearly three times the posted speed limit ran a red light and T-boned his car at an I-225 interchange.
After Owners Insurance refused to fairly pay a rear-end collision victim's underinsured motorist claim and offered only $150,000 on a $1 million policy, a federal jury found the insurer liable for breach of contract and statutory bad faith. The district court applied Colorado's unreasonable-delay statute to bring Donald Etherton's judgment to $2.25 million, a result the Tenth Circuit affirmed in full in 2016.
Chad Hemmat secured a $1.2 million jury verdict for Della Gallegos after her former attorney, Patric LeHouillier, allowed the statute of limitations on her brain-tumor medical malpractice claim to expire, leaving her blind in one eye, partially deaf, and unable to work.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
