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Jessica Grimes joined Pollart Miller LLC as an associate in 2012. After graduating from law school, she was selected as part of the Attorney General Honors’ Program in the U.S. Department of Justice.

She spent two years with the Executive Office of Immigration Review as an Attorney Advisor, where she gained extensive experience with immigration, criminal, and procedural matters before a federal administrative body.

Since joining Pollart Miller, Jessica has focused her practice on civil litigation, subrogation, employment law, and workers’ compensation defense. She represents insureds, employers, and insurance carriers before state courts and administrative agencies, both at the trial court and appellate levels in all areas of workers’ compensation claims, including subrogation recovery and bad faith litigation defense in civil courts. Jessica has represented clients in all phases of litigation and mediation through appeal; she has argued before the Colorado Court of Appeals and has briefed cases to the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court. She also has litigation experience in both Colorado and Arizona.

Jessica is a native of Rhode Island, and while she has called Colorado home for over a decade, is always an island girl at heart. In her free time, Jessica enjoys spending time with her family and children and introducing them to the wonders of the ocean through travel. You can find her running the trails of Denver’s parks in preparation for completing full marathons and half marathons or volunteering at her children’s schools.

Practice Areas
Associations
  • Colorado Bar Association, 2012 - Present
  • Denver Bar Association
  • Colorado Defense Lawyers Association
  • State Bar of Arizona
Engagements

Jessica is engaged in periodic client presentations on rule changes, bad faith, and worker’s compensation law developments.  She has also been asked by third-party administrators to provide training to new hires and annual updates in both Colorado and Arizona.

Publications

“Reinterpreting Judge Mix’s Ten Rules for Court and Professional Life” with IJ Mimi Tsankov, 89 Denver U.L. Rev. 369 (2012)

“Forgotten Prisoners of War: Returning Nazi Looted Art by Relaxing the National Stolen Property Act,” 15 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 521 (2012)

Blogs:

  • 06/30/17  |  Compensability – A Witnessed Incident is Not Always Enough for Compensable Injury
  • 06/30/17  |  Compensability – Pain Felt While Performing Work Activities Insufficient to Show Injury was Caused or Aggravated by Work
  • 06/30/17  |  Court of Appeals – Safety Rule Violation
Presentations
  • 2020 Client Presentation – Work Injuries and their Consequences in the Time of Social Distancing
  • 2020 Client Presentation – Arizona: The Never Ending Story… Reopenings v. Settlements in the Wild Wild West
  • 2019 Client Presentation – Arizona Workers’ Compensation Basics
  • 2019 Client Presentation – Update: The New Rule 11 & Changes to the Division IME Process
  • 2018 Annual Seminar Client Presentation – Bad Faith
Awards
  • Rising Star by Super Lawyers, 2019-2023
Education
  • J.D., Roger Williams University School of Law, magna cum laude, 2010
  • A.M., University of Chicago, 2006
  • B.A., Boston College, 2005

Credentials

Professional recognition and reviews
Eric J. Pollart recognized by 5280 Top Lawyers Denver 2022Eric J. Pollart recognized by 5280 Top Lawyers Denver 2019
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