About Tom Byrnes
Tom Byrnes is a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience specializing in complex trials and investigations. His practice focuses on representing victims and their families in civil litigation, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. As a trial prosecutor, he developed expertise across homicides, sexual assaults, drug trafficking, and financial crimes. He served as Assistant District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office, leading trial teams and managing day-to-day operations for an office of over 250 employees in Colorado's largest district.
Tom is a U.S. Navy and Iraq War veteran who served on active duty in the JAG Corps as a Staff Judge Advocate, defense counsel, Special Assistant United States Attorney, and prosecutor. He continues to serve as a Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserves and is a certified military judge. Tom earned his bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, and his J.D. from Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Dan Caplis Law
These results are credited to Dan Caplis Law. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Garfield County jury returned a $205 million verdict against Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park and ride manufacturer Soaring Eagle after finding that operators launched the Haunted Mine Drop with a six-year-old girl sitting on top of an unsecured seatbelt, overriding a warning alarm that should have stopped the ride.
A Larimer County jury returned a $65 million wrongful death verdict in September 2026 for the family of Megan Arneson, a 32-year-old single mother killed on I-25 near Mead in August 2022. A semi hauling an improperly loaded excavator struck an overpass, and falling concrete came through her windshield. The jury found the driver and his employer liable after a five-day trial. Plaintiffs' counsel described it as the largest jury verdict in Larimer County history and the largest in a Colorado trucking crash case.
A Denver jury awarded $26.6 million to two adult siblings whose parents were both killed when a drowsy CWRV Transport driver rear-ended their stopped vehicle at 75 mph on a Colorado highway.
After Cincinnati Casualty told an Aurora man he owed nothing following three spinal surgeries from a multi-car crash, a Denver jury returned a verdict of more than $3 million for breach of contract and insurance bad faith.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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