Credentials
Education
Clerkships
Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty (ret.), U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Other Government Service
Extern to the Honorable Justice Richard Gabriel, Colorado Supreme Court
Extern to the Honorable Judge Timothy Tymkovich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Legal Memberships
American Bar Association
Faculty of Federal Advocate
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Women’s Bar Association
Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
Denver Bar Association
The Judge William E. Doyle American Inn of Court
Bar and Court Admissions
Colorado
U.S. District Court, D. Colorado
Other Experience
Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP
Summer Law Clerk
Marissa Joers represents clients in civil litigation. Her experience includes taking direct examinations at trial in federal court, comprehensive trial prep work, taking and defending expert depositions, and writing dispositive motions and briefs and as well as evidentiary motions. She focuses on medical malpractice defense as well as catastrophic injury and product liability.
Her experience also includes a clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and extern experiences at the Colorado Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. During law school, Marissa participated in a law clinic where she and her clinic partner took a criminal case to trial and won a not-guilty verdict from the jury for their client.
Marissa has an active pro bono practice. As part of our trial team that fought for safe temperatures for those incarcerated in Texas prisons, she handled the direct examination of the president of one of the nonprofit organizations they represented, drafted direct and cross examinations for other witnesses, and played a key role in preparing the entire case for trial.
In college, Marissa was the captain of the women’s tennis team.
Cases
Marissa Joers represents clients in civil litigation. Her experience includes taking direct examinations at trial in federal court, comprehensive trial prep work, taking and defending expert depositions, and writing dispositive motions and briefs and as well as evidentiary motions. She focuses on medical malpractice defense as well as catastrophic injury and product liability.
Her experience also includes a clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and extern experiences at the Colorado Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. During law school, Marissa participated in a law clinic where she and her clinic partner took a criminal case to trial and won a not-guilty verdict from the jury for their client.
Marissa has an active pro bono practice. As part of our trial team that fought for safe temperatures for those incarcerated in Texas prisons, she handled the direct examination of the president of one of the nonprofit organizations they represented, drafted direct and cross examinations for other witnesses, and played a key role in preparing the entire case for trial.
In college, Marissa was the captain of the women’s tennis team.
Credentials
Education
Clerkships
Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty (ret.), U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Other Government Service
Extern to the Honorable Justice Richard Gabriel, Colorado Supreme Court
Extern to the Honorable Judge Timothy Tymkovich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Legal Memberships
American Bar Association
Faculty of Federal Advocate
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Women’s Bar Association
Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
Denver Bar Association
The Judge William E. Doyle American Inn of Court
Bar and Court Admissions
Colorado
U.S. District Court, D. Colorado
Other Experience
Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP
Summer Law Clerk