Mitzi G. Burkitt
Paralegal
Mitzi is a 30-year veteran of the paralegal profession and has more than 25 years’ experience in civil and complex commercial litigation.
Currently she is the lead paralegal in the defense of a large oil & gas class action lawsuit pending in Oklahoma. She also works on the Plaintiff side of several other complex commercial cases.
Mitzi was recently part of the defense team representing the University of Colorado in a highly publicized Title IX action brought by former University students who claimed they were sexually assaulted by University football players. She was also the lead paralegal on the winning team in a federal trademark infringement case that resulted in a multi-million dollar jury verdict, following a three-week trial several years ago. Previously, she headed up the paralegal team in a series of state consumer fraud class actions brought against a public utility in seven mid-western and western states. Mitzi also has experience managing complex medical and legal malpractice cases, and products liability.
She has lectured on managing complex litigation on behalf of the Institute for Paralegal Education, and on electronic filings at Denver University Law School. Mitzi has served on a task force created by the Colorado Lawyers Committee to study effective legal representation for the mentally ill in Colorado’s criminal system. She is also a past newsletter editor of the Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association.
Among the skills she enjoys most as a paralegal are finding innovative and efficient ways to manage large volumes of documents and other evidence. She also enjoys working closely with the graphic design department in creating demonstrative aids for trial presentation. Mitzi works closely with information technology experts, clients, attorneys and staff in managing her assigned cases, and sees paralegals as the “glue that holds the team together”.
Before joining Reilly Pozner, she was the head paralegal in the Denver office of McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., a 275-attorney international firm.