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About Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson honed her litigation skills as an assistant public defender in Miami for three years before moving to Colorado in 1995. She entered private medical malpractice practice with Larry Schoenwald, an established Colorado medical negligence attorney, and joined Leventhal Puga Braley P.C. in June 2018. Julia was on the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors from 2000 to 2025, serving as Co-Chair of its Medical Malpractice Committee from 2013 to 2019, and served as Vice President of the Colorado Women's Bar Association. She holds a J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School (1992), where she received the Susan G. Desmarais Award, and a B.A. from Haverford College (1987). Martindale-Hubbell has given her an AV Preeminent 5-out-of-5 rating, and she has been selected to Colorado Super Lawyers since 2012.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Leventhal Puga Braley
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A Denver jury awarded $67,349,380 in July 2024 after a seven-month-old suffered permanent brain damage when a cardiothoracic surgeon accidentally tied off the infant's aorta during open-heart surgery and the perfusionists failed to detect the resulting loss of blood flow for more than seven hours.
A Colorado jury delivered what was then the state's largest medical malpractice verdict after a four-day-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when hospital staff administered an incorrect prostaglandin dose before congenital heart surgery.
A Broomfield County jury found Crested Butte Mountain Resort negligent per se for violating federal chairlift safety standards, awarding a family $12.4 million after their teenage daughter fell 30 feet from a moving ski lift and was permanently paralyzed.
A Kenton County, Kentucky jury awarded Melanie Robbins, then 35, $8.27 million in March 2017 after an emergency room physician and a radiologist missed a warning bleed on a head CT and sent her home. Twelve days later a dissecting brain aneurysm ruptured and left her almost completely paralyzed. The jury split fault equally between the two doctors. The Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed Dr. Perazzo's half in December 2020.
A federal jury awarded Jody Blatchley, former coach of New Zealand's Olympic snowboard team, $6.3 million after nurses at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center failed to recognize and report compartment syndrome for three days following his tibial surgery, leaving him with permanent foot drop and confined to a wheelchair.
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