Gail Wurtzler

Gail Wurtzler practices with Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP in Denver, Colorado. She has more than 15 years experience defending personal injury, medical monitoring and property damage toxic tort cases. To date, Ms. Wurtzler has been the lead defense lawyer in more than 20 toxic tort personal injury cases and more than 25 toxic tort property damage cases. Ms. Wurtzler also has more than 15 years experience defending natural resource damages claims and prosecuting and defending claims under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as well as similar state statutes.

Practice Areas

  • Environmental Toxic Tort Litigation
  • Class Action Litigation
  • Environmental and Natural Resource Litigation
  • Brownfields
  • Environmental Law
  • Manufacturing Industry
  • Mining
  • Oil & Gas
  • Water

Professional Associations

  • Defense Research Institute: Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee
  • American Bar Association - Litigation Section: Environmental Litigation Committee 
  • Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section: Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee
  • Section of Environmental, Energy & Resources Law
    • Committees – Environmental Transactions and Brownfields
    • Environmental Litigation & Toxic Torts
    • Former Section Council member
  • Natural Resources & Environment
    •  Member of founding editorial board
    • Former Editor-in-Chief
  • Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
    • Former Trustee-at-large
    • Former Chair of Publications Committee
  • Urban Land Institute

Education

  • J.D. University of Chicago
  • B.A. University of Wisconsin, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado
Gail is also a Member of the Board of Visitors at the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.