William A. Bianco is a partner in the firm’s Trial Group. He has handled a wide variety of business related litigation matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts. For several years Mr. Bianco served as a lead lawyer for the court appointed Securities Investor Protection Act Trustee for the liquidation of the largest penny stock brokerage firm in the country at that time. His work in connection with this liquidation included investigation and pursuit of ultimately successful claims against the principal of the broker/dealer for self dealing, breach of fiduciary duties, fraudulent conveyances, and liability based on alter ego status. In addition, Mr. Bianco was involved in efforts to locate and recover assets of the company’s principal and to liquidate them for the benefit of creditors of the estate. He has also worked on intellectual property litigation involving claims of unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, and patent infringement. He has represented banking institutions in suits involving investment advisors and bank trust departments. For many years, he has represented parties involved in construction disputes, distressed projects, and real estate matters, as well as insurance coverage and environmental issues. Also, Mr. Bianco has been involved in a number of complex class action lawsuits in many different industries.

Mr. Bianco has also devoted a substantial portion of his time to litigation of construction matters, including disputes among project owners, contractors, subcontractors, materials manufacturers and design professionals arising out of the construction of diverse industrial, commercial and residential projects. He and the firm have represented a wide variety of public and private project owners, general contractors, design professionals, as well as suppliers of building materials and products, including pre-engineered structural elements, roofing products, and steel. Mr. Bianco has been involved in numerous project distress and failure cases and alleged design and construction defects in residential and commercial structures.

He has used a variety of alternative dispute resolution techniques to resolve litigation, in both large and relatively small disputes, on a prompt and cost effective basis. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association commercial and construction panels of neutrals.

Mr. Bianco is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Lawyers’ Committee, the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver, and the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association. He also has served as chairman of the Colorado Bar Association Committee on Legal Education and Admissions and is a former member and chairman of the Law Committee of the Colorado Supreme Court Board of Law Examiners. Mr. Bianco has served as a Trustee of the Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado and as the Chair of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Bianco is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been named multiple times as a Colorado Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine.

Mr. Bianco graduated from New York University in 1967 (B.A.). He received his legal education at Columbia University (J.D., 1970), where he was an articles and book reviews editor of the Columbia Law Review. After graduating from law school, Mr. Bianco worked at a New York law firm and served in the U.S. Army prior to joining Davis Graham & Stubbs in 1972.

He is admitted to practice in New York and Colorado and is a member of the Bars of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the Second, Third, Tenth and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Bianco is a co-author of the chapter regarding Rule 23, "Class Actions," in Colorado Practice, Civil Procedure Forms and Commentary, Vol. 11, Second Edition, West Publishing Co., 2005, and for several years authored the chapter entitled "Colorado - Decisions Interpreting Rule 23 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure" in Survey of State Class Action Law - A Report of the State Laws Subcommittee of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee, American Bar Association. He was also an editor and an author of "Damages in Construction Claims," Chapter 20 supplement, Practitioner’s Guide to Colorado Construction Law. Mr. Bianco has also published articles on construction law in periodicals and has lectured on that topic.