William A. Trine is a noted trial lawyer, author, and teacher. He is listed in all editions of The Best Lawyers in America, is co-author of the best-selling book, Winning Medical Negligence Cases, and is on the faculty of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College. He is a past president and founder of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a public interest law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., and a past president of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, which honored him with the first Norm Kripke Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. He was selected by his peers as a “Colorado Super Lawyer” in 2006 and 2007, and featured in LawDragon Magazine’s list of 500 leading plaintiff’s lawyers in America (2007). He is an invited member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and the International Society of Barristers due to his success and recognition as a trial attorney. Mr. Trine graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law and has been a trial lawyer since 1960. Mr. Trine has represented people in over 150 jury trials involving products liability, medical and legal malpractice, civil rights, business torts and wrongs, commercial litigation, and all other aspects of civil litigation.

Mr. Trine is also an invited member ofthe American Board of Trial Advocates; a member of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association; and a Board Member of the Western Trial Lawyers Association. He chaired a national litigation group in the successful litigation against the Japanese manufacturer of contaminated L-Tryptophan and has chaired or co-chaired numerous education seminars and conventions for trial lawyers. Mr. Trine served on the Colorado Supreme Court's appointed committee on civil jury instructions for 23 years and chaired the sub-committee on Products Liability and Professional Malpractice. He has been lead counsel on numerous lawsuits
that advanced the law in Colorado on behalf of the consumer.

Mr. Trine comes from a family of coal miners and railroad workers and was the first in his family to attend college. His entire legal career has been devoted to representing people against corporations, insurance companies and the government. He files lawsuits seeking justice on behalf of those who have been significantly harmed by corporate or governmental abuse. Mr. Trine was lead trial counsel and appellate counsel on many cases which made significant new law in the State of Colorado.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Law clerk to Chief Justice Francis J. Knauss, Colorado Supreme Court, 1959-60.
• Colorado Supreme Court Civil Jury Instruction Committee, 1977-99.
• Colorado Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee, 1968-69 and 1978-88.
• Colorado Court of Appeals Committee on Accelerated Docket, 1977-80.
• Governor's Task Force Committee on Insurance and Tort Reform, 1985-86.
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America: Board of Governors 1983-86; Victims Bill Of Rights Committee, 1985-86; Co-chair --Amicus Curiae Committee, 1993-94 and 1996-97; Faculty, Advanced Trial Advocacy College, Reno, 1983-84; Faculty, Advanced Special Colleges, Snowmass, 1985, and Steamboat Springs, 1988; Dean, Specialized Courses in Trial Advocacy, Vail, 1986; Co-chair, Basic Course in Trial Advocacy, Reno, 1987; Faculty, Advanced Trial Advocacy College, Hastings College of Law, 1991; and Chairperson, L-Tryptophan Litigation Group. 1990-94.
• Founder and teacher of Trial Skills Training Program for Minorities, 2005-07.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

• William (Bill) Trine is the author of 30 published articles and the coauthor of a book, Winning Medical Negligence Cases, Trine & Luvera.