Yusuf briefs most of the firm’s dispositive motions and argues in the Colorado Court of Appeals. Motion practice is the part of a commercial case where the writing does the work, and it is the part he asked for.
He clerked for a judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals before joining the firm, which is where he learned how quickly a brief that buries its best point gets read.
Representative matters
- Wrote the summary-judgment motion that ended a two-year contract claim without a trial setting.
- Argued and won the appeal of a discovery sanction that would have decided the case.
- Second-chaired a three-week commercial trial.
Admissions
- Colorado, 2018
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2018
- University of Denver, B.A., 2015