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Practice Areas

  • Healthcare
  • Litigation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Professional Liability

Admissions

  • Colorado
  • Utah
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Kate A. Bailey

Partner

Phone: 303.605.1567
Email: kbailey@messner.com
Office: Denver, Greenwood Village, Salt Lake City

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Ms. Bailey is an experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on the defense of healthcare professionals and entities. In addition to her substantial trial practice, Ms. Bailey has extensive experience in all aspects of civil litigation in state and federal court, including taking and defending fact and expert depositions, drafting and arguing dispositive motions and appellate briefs, leading internal investigations, and negotiating favorable resolutions for her clients. Ms. Bailey also has significant experience representing clients before Colorado’s Division of Regulatory Agencies.

 

While in law school, Ms. Bailey worked as a judicial intern to Justice Christine Durham of the Utah Supreme Court, an intern in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah, and as a senior editor on The BYU Law Review.

 

Outside of the office, Ms. Bailey is a high school mock trial coach and a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado’s Mentor 2.0 program.

 

Ms. Bailey lives in Denver and is licensed in Colorado and Utah.

  • Brigham Young University, J.D., 2013 cum laude
  • Brigham Young University-Idaho, B.A., Communications, 2009
  • Super Lawyer, Rising Star 2023
  • Colorado Bar Association
  • Denver Bar Association
  • Colorado Women’s Bar Association
Publications and Speaking Engagements
  • Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons Annual Symposium, November 2021: Medical Litigation Hot Buttons Post-Covid and Testifying Guidelines.
  • Boulder Neurosurgery Conference, Biennial Advanced Practitioner & Nursing Education Meeting, February 2019:  Hot topics in 2019, Litigation in Colorado.
Professional Experience
  • Richards Brandt Miller Nelson, Law Clerk 2013
  • U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Utah, Law Clerk, 2013
  • Supreme Court of Utah, Justice Christine Durham, Judicial Intern, 2012

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