Special Lawyer for The Harris Law Organization, John H. Tatlock deals with complicated lawsuit and appeals for Colorado household legislation cases.
John is a extremely experienced trial lawyer with much more than Twenty years of knowledge representing customers in federal and state legal courts and before arbitration tribunals on complicated lawsuit issues varying from mass torts, product legal responsibility claims, securities administration measures, scams, breach of agreement, and other substantial industrial conflicts.
John had been additionally twice chosen as a Colorado Super Attorney. In addition, he has represented personal equity money in fund formation, mergers and acquisitions of portfolio businesses, and corporate governance problems.
After graduation from Wichita State College with a B.A. diploma, magna cum laude, with College Respects in Politics Science, John held a four-year Teaching-Research Fellowship in Political Science at the College of Iowa, where he gained his Master’s Diploma. Following active responsibility in the Air Force, John was Director of Testing and an Trainer in Political Science at Wichita State, where he administered all of the University’s testing applications and trained Statistics to Political Science graduate college students.
John then grew to become Visiting Assistant Teacher of Political Science and Adjunct Tutor at the College of Houston, before being employed by a big international oil organization in Houston, where he held jobs of increasing obligation in the Public and Governmental Matters divisions. In those projects John recommended senior organization management on legal and open public policy issues of concern to the organization and represented the organization on legal issues and in crucial trade interactions.
John and his family relocated to Denver in 1985 where he attended the University of Denver College of Law, receiving his J.D. diploma in 1988 and joining the Denver office of Kirkland & Ellis that same year as a lawsuit associate. After Kirkland shut down its Denver office in 1996, John joined some of his Kirkland colleagues at a lawsuit boutique, later moving to the private equity team at Arnold & Porter, then coming back to lawsuit at McKenna Long & Aldridge’s Denver office.
John is actually a fellow member of the Denver Bar Organization, has created presentations at CLE applications on depositions, civil lawsuit, trial strategies, and is the writer of content articles relevant to civil lawsuit subjects. Also a fellow member of the Colorado Bar, John has already been accepted to practice before the United States Supreme Courtroom, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, U.S. Tax Courtroom, and the U.S. Area Legal courts for Colorado and Arizona.
He is active in the Colorado Attorneys Committee and is a co-chair of itsTask Force on Denver Public Colleges Enrollment, School Closings and Restructurings. In 2010, John joined the CBA Professionalism Coordinating Council, which encourages and aids in the improvement of professional standards among jurists and lawyers statewide. John is also a current fellow member of the Board of Trustees of the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver. This year, John is one of the nominees for Attorney of the Year for 2011 by the Colorado Attorneys Committee. He is being honored for his longstanding authority in, and dedication to, the Denver Public Schools task force which has sued the State of Colorado to increase the public school facilities in non-urban places of our State.
John and his spouse Laurie live in Denver and have two daughters, Erin, a graduate of Willamette College in Salem, Oregon, and Beth, who presently lives in Park City, Utah and works for the U.S Ski and Snowboard Association. John follows Major League baseball as a Rockies season-ticket holder, skis, runs, and lifts, while trying to stay current on politics, elections, and globe events.