Jim Puga

Jim Puga is a nationally recognized trial lawyer focused on personal injury and medical malpractice who has secured multiple multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements. He won the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Colorado history, $17.8 million, on behalf of a child with brain damage. A third-generation Colorado native, Jim graduated cum laude from the University of Denver and then earned his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law on scholarship in 1989. He spent several years at a prominent corporate defense firm before dedicating his practice entirely to plaintiff-side medical malpractice and birth injury work nearly 20 years ago. Jim holds a 10.0 Superb Avvo rating, is an honored member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and is a faculty member with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is a past co-chair of the AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Best Lawyers in America has recognized him in medical malpractice since 2007 and personal injury since 2012, and he has been a Colorado Super Lawyer since 2007.