Joseph C. Daniels

Joe has quickly become a powerhouse trial lawyer, representing clients around the country and helping them solve complex and challenging legal issues. A tough, effective trial lawyer who never shies away from a difficult fight, Joe uses his background in theater to take complex legal and factual scenarios and package them into compelling and understandable narratives that are effective with both judges and juries. He has had a string of impressive victories, making him a go-to litigator in all aspects of litigation, including pre-litigation strategy, discovery, motions practice, trial, and post-trial issues.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND UNFAIR COMPETITION

• Represented numerous businesses and individuals in patent, trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property disputes.
• Protected the brand of a 60-year-old Colorado real estate company in a trademark infringement lawsuit, resulting in a $4 million award for the client.
• Successfully represented photojournalist in copyright dispute against movie producer and distributor.
• Obtained favorable settlement for Florida-based entity in trademark infringement lawsuit involving online and Google-based advertising.
• Successfully defended California-based company in trademark infringement lawsuit seeking over $20 million in damages.
• Obtained injunctive relief for a Colorado-based business after its trade secrets had been misappropriated.

BUSINESS TORT LITIGATION

• Represented numerous businesses and individuals in fraud, tortious interference, negligent misrepresentation, and other business tort disputes.
• Awarded $13 million by an arbitration panel for a small Philadelphia-based technology company against one of the largest information technology companies in the world.
• Obtained favorable global settlement in overlapping lawsuits involving fraud, unjust enrichment and estate issues.
• Obtained a favorable settlement on the eve of an arbitration hearing for a Colorado-based wireless company against its wireless technology supplier for claims of breach of contract, fraud and negligent misrepresentation.
• Represented a Colorado-based private equity group in connection with fraud and breach of contract claims relating to acquisition of a company.
• Represented oil and gas company in connection with fraud, tortious interference, and breach of contract claims.

FINANCIAL SERVICES LITIGATION

• Obtained an $11.5 million summary judgment for the servicer of a private lending group against a Colorado commercial real estate developer.
• Successfully obtained summary judgment for a Colorado bank dismissing a Colorado special district’s improper effort to impose and foreclose a $5.4 million “tap fee” lien on 301 undeveloped residential lots that the bank acquired through foreclosure.
• Received partial summary judgment for an electric generation and transmission association in breach of contract dispute involving long-term requirement contracts.

CORPORATE DISPUTE LITIGATION

• Obtained complete defense verdict in favor of an electric generation and transmission company after week-long jury trial for claims of breach of contract involving long-term requirements contracts.
• Received partial summary judgment for an electric generation and transmission association in breach of contract dispute involving long-term all requirement contracts.
• Represented investment fund involving corporate management and control issues between former business partners.

• Lights, Camera, Litigate: Applying Acting Theory to Create Effective Trial Strategies, Colorado Bar Association, April 26, 2023.
• Always on State: How Acting Theory Can Apply to Litigation, Law Week Colorado HearSay Podcast, March 2019.
• Arbitration and Alternative Fee Arrangements, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, September 2019.