Lipka Law Colorado, LLC

Attorney at Law
Lipka Law Colorado, LLC, 2015 to present
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Located in downtown Colorado Springs, I represent clients facing criminal charges throughout southern Colorado. I specialize in complex criminal matters, homicides, sex assaults, and the spectrum of felonies, misdemeanors, and DUIs. I provide expert legal assistance to criminal defense teams statewide.


Colorado State Public Defender
Office Head and Lead Counsel on Death Penalty Cases, 2006 - 2015
Defended the indigent accused on the spectrum of state felonies, misdemeanors, and juvenile adjudications. Practiced in the Arapahoe and Alamosa Regional Offices. Managed 30+ attorneys, paraprofessionals, and interns as the Pueblo Regional Office Head, starting in 2012. Acted as lead counsel, capital mitigation trainer, and expert consultant on Colorado death penalty cases from 2013 to 2015.


Legal Intern, Colorado State Public Defender, 2004-2006
Denver, Colorado
Represented indigent accused in misdemeanor cases under the Colorado Student Practice Act in the Denver Regional Office. Provided mitigation support on death penalty cases throughout Colorado.

Law Clerk, Reilly Pozner, 2006
Denver, Colorado
Provided legal research and analysis on state and federal criminal cases.

Teaching Assistant to Law Professor Gabrielle Stafford, 2006
University of Colorado Law School
Boulder. Colorado

Assistant to Law Professor Ahmed White, 2005
University of Colorado Law School
Boulder, Colorado

Law Clerk, Killmer, Lane, LLP, 2006
Denver, Colorado
Provided legal research and trial support for attorney David Lane in state and federal courts on criminal, employment, and civil rights cases.

Lead Death Penalty Defense Mitigation Specialist,
Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, 2000-2003
New Orleans, Louisiana
Led over three dozen death penalty defense investigations under attorney Clive Bolton-Smith in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. Supervised law students from the United States, Europe, and Australia. Led investigations for the Orleans Parish Preliminary Hearing Project, achieving a 90% pre-trial dismissal rate for defendants facing the death penalty.


Undergraduate Legal Volunteer, St. Thomas Housing Development Legal Center, 1997-1999
New Orleans, Louisiana
Assisted attorney (now Netherlands Appellate Judge) Bart Stapert with operational management and investigations at his law office located in the impoverished St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans, where nun and author Sister Helen Prejean first began her work assisting people facing execution on Louisiana's Death Row before writing her first book "Dead Man Walking".