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| Judge Murray Richtel served on the Colorado District Court in Boulder for nineteen years from 1977 to 1996 presiding over a wide variety of civil and criminal litigation. A Denver native, he received his undergraduate degree in history at the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 and his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1965 where he was Order of the Coif. Following six years of private law practice in Beverly Hills, he became a professor at the University of Colorado School of Law in 1971. As a tenured member of the law faculty he taught evidence, contracts, and trial practice. |
Judge Richtel, who holds dual American and Israeli citizenships, continues to teach on an annual basis at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem as an adjunct professor. He has also taught courses for Israeli judges and for the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Following his appointment to the District Court bench, Judge Richtel continued to be involved in teaching a broad range of topics ranging from historic trials to negotiations at both the law school and in continuing legal education programs. He has been involved in training new judges for the past fifteen years. While on the Boulder District Court bench he, Judge Dana and Judge Neighbors established that court’s highly successful settlement conference system. Judge Richtel has served as President of the Boulder County Bar Association and on the Colorado Bar Association Board of Governors. |
Since 1983 when he presided at the first televised Colorado trial under rules permitting expanded media coverage, he has been active in Bar-Media relations. He served as Chairperson of the American Bar Association National Conference of Lawyers and Representatives of the Media and received that Association’s Silver Gavel Award for the Television series “You Be the Judge” which he helped to edit. | |||
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