Kimberly M. Hult
Practice Areas
Appeals
Complex Commercial Litigation
General Litigation
Insurance Bad Faith Litigation
Personal Injury & Wrongful Death Litigation
Product Liability Litigation
Professional & Medical Malpractice Litigation
Unfair Trade Practices & Intellectual Property Litigation
Property Rights & Boundary Line Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Experience
A civil litigator who has worked tirelessly toward her client’s objectives for nearly 30 years, Kimberly Hult understands how to navigate and resolve complex legal matters for her diverse clients. Her clients range from individual sexual assault survivors, personal injury and medical malpractice plaintiffs; to large and small institutions and businesses (Fortune 500 corporations, school districts and entrepreneurs); to neighbors and communities embroiled in real property disputes.
Kim frequently appears before state and federal courts, and a significant portion of her practice focuses on representing sexual assault survivors and injured individuals. Since 2002, she has been actively engaged in developing HBC’s nationally-recognized Title IX practice, and she has acted as lead counsel in several high-profile Title IX cases and other kinds of civil cases involving sexual assaults that occurred at schools, at work, at home and in the community. Her work on behalf of survivors has been featured in media and scholarly articles.
Kim has also successfully represented injured individuals with medical malpractice and other personal injury claims. She was named Best Lawyers of America’s Medical Malpractice “Lawyer of the Year” in Boulder in 2022, and has been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyer listing for her medical malpractice work for the last 12 years. In 2003, Kim, along with Baine Kerr, won what is believed to be the largest breast cancer verdict in Colorado, and she has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for her medical malpractice work for more than nine years. In 2014, she argued and won an appeal before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in a matter addressing when claims against the federal government should arise when there is no clear medical diagnosis.
Kim is particularly well known throughout Colorado for her work in real property litigation involving boundary disputes, adverse possession, and prescriptive easement claims. One of her adverse possession cases directly led to changes in Colorado’s adverse possession statute, and she speaks on that and other, similar cases.
For over 29 years, Kim has also maintained an active commercial litigation practice that includes civil business and IP litigation matters for individuals, corporations and school districts. She has successfully represented her clients in dozens of IP disputes before the federal courts and U.S. Trial and Trademark Appeals Board (“TTAB”), in contractual disputes, and during business divorces.
Kim’s varied, extensive litigation experience has resulted in strong legal judgment and keen instincts that enable her to appreciate her clients’ needs, to chart a strong litigation course, and to reach practical and often creative resolutions. She brings this added value to every matter for her clients.
Prior to moving to Boulder with her family in 1999 and joining HBC, Kim worked at two other prestigious law firms, then known as Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in Washington, D.C., and Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, P.C. in Philadelphia. She attended Cornell Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude, was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as articles editor of the Cornell Law Review. Following law school, she also held a federal clerkship in Boston with Joseph L. Tauro, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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Kim’s Title IX practice includes the landmark cases Simpson v. University of Colorado, Zbylski v. Douglas County School District, and DeGroote v. The Arizona Board of Regents, along with numerous other matters against colleges and universities such as Stanford University, Princeton University, and Arizona State University.
In 2003, Kim, along with Baine Kerr, secured a jury verdict in Grundstrom v. Liebovitz, a breast cancer medical malpractice case tried in the Boulder County District Court.
In 2014, Kim argued and won Bayless v. United States (10th Circuit).
In 2008, Kim tried and won a landmark Boulder adverse possession case. Since then, she has successfully tried or resolved dozens of other adverse possession and prescriptive easement cases for clients ranging from neighbors in urban settings to cattle ranchers in eastern Colorado.
In recent years, Kim has successfully managed and resolved business disputes for two different Colorado school districts, for one of the fastest-growing companies in Colorado, and for entrepreneurs located on the Front Range.
For over 20 years, Kim has litigated and resolved numerous IP disputes, particularly trademark disputes, for clients seeking to protect and to defend their trademarks and other IP rights. Her representation has included matters before the TTAB and federal courts in Colorado, California and New York.
Education
Cornell University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1993
Order of the Coif
Articles Editor, Cornell Law Review
Teaching Assistant: Legal Writing; Constitutional Law
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1989
Bar Admissions/ Clerkships
New York, 1995
Pennsylvania, 1996
Colorado, 2000
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1996
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2000
Law Clerk, Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, 1993-94, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Memberships / Awards
American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Women's Bar Association
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Best Lawyers in America
Selected for Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs, 2012-present
Member, Board of Directors, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2000-2006
Member, Board of Directors, Global Greengrants Fund, 2015-present
Graduate, Leadership Boulder
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