The people on your file

Our attorneys

Two lawyers with complementary strengths: one who takes policies apart on paper and in the court of appeals, one who takes insurers apart in front of a jury.

Coverage & Appellate

Thomas Neville

When lawyers need innovative solutions for difficult legal issues, they call Thomas Neville. With a background combining appellate and trial experience, Thomas approaches legal issues as a radical scholar, finding new and creative paths to solve problems. He brings this perspective to his primary practice area, handling insurance disputes for individuals and corporations whose insurance companies have abandoned them by leaving claims unpaid or by refusing to protect their insureds' assets and livelihood. Thomas represents clients in insurance litigation both at the trial court and appellate levels.

Thomas grew up in Alaska, where he got his first taste of legal work as a student attorney with the Anchorage Youth Court. Educated at Gonzaga University, he spent six months studying at Oxford University, where he discovered his passion for the law. Thomas graduated from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in the top 10% of his class. After law school he spent two years as a law clerk for the Colorado Court of Appeals, then went to work with Murray and Mike Ogborn in 2005. His analytical and writing skills make him well suited to address complex, technical issues.

Thomas has been an active member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association since 2006. In 2010 he was asked to co-chair CTLA's Amicus Curiae committee; in 2011 he was elected to CTLA's Board of Directors and has served ever since. He has volunteered to review legislation for members of the Colorado General Assembly and has testified before the legislature on bills related to the regulation of insurance companies. He was also selected as one of twenty participants in the Colorado Bar Association's Leadership Training (COBALT) program for 2018.

A self-described “geek,” Thomas enjoys playing video and board games with his wife and two sons when he has time.

Insurance coverage litigation, trial and appellate
CTLA Board of Directors; past co-chair, Amicus Curiae committee
Has testified before the Colorado legislature on insurance regulation

Trial & Business Insurance

Michael L. Nimmo

Michael Nimmo is a partner at Denver Trial Lawyers® and has been practicing law at the firm for over fifteen years. Mr. Nimmo specialises in serious and complex civil litigation, including personal injury and business insurance disputes, where he represents businesses and individuals against insurance companies, and individual victims seriously injured in trucking collisions, loading and unloading incidents, automobile and motorcycle accidents, wrongful death, products liability, premises liability, drunk driving collisions, rideshare injuries and medical malpractice.

Michael Nimmo and Denver Trial Lawyers® represent businesses throughout Colorado in claims against their property insurers where business interruption coverage has been wrongfully denied.

Mr. Nimmo has been featured and quoted in numerous national publications including the New York Times, The Associated Press, ABC News, Fox News, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Detroit News.

He served as President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, leading an organisation of over 1,300 trial lawyers across education, training, legislative agendas, seminars and networking. He has testified in front of the Colorado Senate and lectures regularly to trial lawyers throughout Colorado. He has been named a Colorado Super Lawyer, a Top 100 Litigator in Colorado, a “Best Lawyer,” and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Mr. Nimmo is not only a partner and owner of Denver Trial Lawyers but also one of the owners of a local barbecue restaurant group with multiple Denver-metro locations, and previously an owner of several other Colorado businesses in construction and recreation. As a business owner himself, he is deeply familiar with how revenue and profit flow through a company — and knows first-hand what a shutdown does to both.

Complex civil litigation and first-party insurance trials
Past President, Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Colorado business owner — reads a P&L as closely as a policy

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