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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 22:59:00+00:00

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Janette is an experienced litigator with over 25 years of experience handling complex commercial disputes. She has experience with breach of contract claims, fraud and misrepresentation cases, breach of fiduciary duty, business torts, Consumer Protection Act claims, employment disputes, class action litigation, construction defect claims, product liability cases, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, and state and federal bid protests. Janette also has experience challenging Federal natural resource agency decisions, NEPA compliance and litigation, consulting on the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act and the Oil Pollution Control Act. Janette is resolution focused. She works closely with her clients to determine their ultimate business goals and objectives and tailors her dispute resolution approach to efficiently and effectively meet those goals and objectives.
Before joining Lewis Bess Williams & Weese, P.C., Janette was a long-time partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP, a large Colorado based firm. Prior to that Janette was a long-time partner in the San Francisco, California office of the national firm Robins Kaplan, LLP.
● MC Oil and Gas, LLC v. Ultra Petroleum, Inc., et al. 2015 WL 5126268 (D. Utah, 2015). Successfully defended a request for preliminary injunction requiring the production and delivery of oil on behalf of oil producer client in breach of contract claim by reseller.
● Mariani v. Titeflex Corporation, 2014 WL 3402514 (D.Colo. 2014). Won a complete dismissal on behalf of the manufacture of corrugated stainless steel tubing in product liability class action.
● Ratnayake v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 2015 WL 875432 (D. Nev. 2015), Miller v. Farmers Ins. Group, 2012 WL 8017244 (E.D.Ok. 2012), Benzing v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 179 P.3d 103, Colo. S.C. 206 P.3d 812 (Colo. 2009). Successfully defeated class certification efforts in class actions alleging various claims related to the marketing and sale of personal lines insurance coverage.
● Kim v. Grover C. Coors Trust, et al., — P.3d—, 2007 WL 686912 (Colo. App. 2007). Successfully defended claims against majority/controlling shareholders and officers in class action lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty in the sale of convertible preferred securities.
● Chase v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 129 P.3d 1011 (Colo. App. 2004). Obtained a summary judgment on behalf of employer in wage and hour class action for overtime compensation claim by claims adjusters.
● Ryan v. CARL Corp., 23 F. Supp.2d 1146 (N.D. Cal. 1998). Achieved favorable post-class certification settlement for authors of articles published in collective works in copyright infringement class action suit against document retrieval and delivery business that reproduced and sold collective work articles without paying royalties.

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