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C. Gregory Tiemeier

Tiemeier & Stich, P.C.
1000 East 16th Ave
Den­ver, CO 80218

Direct: (720) 473‑7525
Phone: (303) 531‑0022
Fax: (303) 531‑0021

gtiemeier@tslawpc.com

C. Gre­go­ry Tiemeier — Cur­ricu­lum Vitae

Background

Greg Tiemeier wore glass­es all the way though law school. So when he first heard about radi­al ker­a­to­to­my in the 1980s, he was intrigued. The sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dure promised to be able to cor­rect his near­sight­ed­ness and that of many more peo­ple. Coin­ci­den­tal­ly, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver, Sturm Col­lege of Law grad­u­ate worked at a med­ical mal­prac­tice firm that defend­ed one of the very first radi­al ker­a­to­to­my tri­als in the country.

Greg got a chance to assist on that case and sev­er­al that fol­lowed, and although they lost, Greg lat­er became the first attor­ney in the nation to win a radi­al ker­a­to­to­my case, suc­cess­ful­ly defend­ing a doc­tor who’d been sued. The vic­to­ry would launch Greg’s career, turn­ing him into a sought-after expert, a fre­quent speak­er and a pop­u­lar attor­ney with eye sur­geons. Although he spent sev­er­al years han­dling real estate, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and secu­ri­ties fraud cas­es, Greg returned to med­ical mal­prac­tice defense, at a large Den­ver firm where he con­tin­ued to rep­re­sent physi­cians in all prac­tice spe­cial­ties in the court­room — as tri­al work is his endur­ing passion.

“I devel­oped a rep­u­ta­tion for know­ing how to suc­cess­ful­ly defend a mal­prac­tice case involv­ing refrac­tive surgery,” he says. “And when you get known for some­thing, peo­ple start send­ing you that work.” Greg has now spo­ken more than 60 times at con­fer­ences and writ­ten or been quot­ed in more than two dozen papers or articles.

Today, Greg, who had refrac­tive surgery from one of the doc­tors he defend­ed, spends a lit­tle less time in the court­room and a lit­tle more on his hob­bies, like MMA-style fight­ing, and snow­board­ing — some­thing he’s been doing for 35 years. A native of Wichi­ta, Kansas, and a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri-Colum­bia, he also enjoys being in the moun­tains of Col­orado, back­pack­ing and camping.

Education

1986 — J. D., Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver, Sturm Col­lege of Law

1990 — B.A., Uni­ver­si­ty of Missouri-Columbia

Bar Admisisons

Col­orado

Nebras­ka

Professional Experience and Areas of Concentration

After grad­u­at­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver, Sturm Col­lege of Law in 1986, Mr. Tiemeier worked in med­ical mal­prac­tice defense for many years. His expe­ri­ence in the court­room includ­ed radi­al ker­aton­o­my tri­als, which piqued his inter­est in refrac­tive surgery in gen­er­al. After a several–year peri­od of involve­ment in com­plex com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion, includ­ing real estate, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and secu­ri­ties fraud, he returned to med­ical mal­prac­tice defense. He con­tin­ues to rep­re­sent physi­cians in all prac­tice spe­cial­ties in the court­room, as tri­al work is and always has been his endur­ing pas­sion. From his spe­cial inter­est in oph­thal­mol­o­gy came invi­ta­tions to share his knowl­edge at nation­al and region­al meet­ings with oph­thal­mol­o­gists who want­ed to low­er their expo­sure to lit­i­ga­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly from refrac­tive surgery. This result­ed in devel­op­ing a risk man­age­ment coun­sel­ing prac­tice that came from his expe­ri­ence in the court­room, as well as what he has learned from the insur­ance com­pa­ny exec­u­tives, risk man­agers and dis­tin­guished physi­cians he has had the priv­i­lege of work­ing with at these meet­ings and con­ven­tions, and as clients.

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