About Mac Hester
About this Blog
The purpose of this blog is to help make the world a better place for injured people and the trial lawyers who represent them.
The main focus of this blog is Colorado personal injury litigation and trial practice: teaching and interacting with other plaintiff's attorneys so that they may better serve their clients and level the personal injury playing field in Colorado, which has been tilted in favor of the defense ever since the onslaught of "tort reform" in the 1980's. I am proud to be a Colorado trial lawyer.
The secondary focus of this blog is persuasion - with particular emphasis on authenticity, strategy, and storytelling.
About Mac Hester
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I am a plaintiff's attorney in Fort Collins, Colorado and Of Counsel to Bachus & Schanker, LLC, a plaintiff's personal injury firm in Denver, Colorado. I practice primarily in Northern Colorado: Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Brighton, Boulder, Longmont, Windsor and Estes Park.
I grew up on a farm in South Carolina, graduated from Clemson University (played football there too), earned my law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986, and practiced in South Carolina for three years. I moved to Colorado in 1989.
I moved to Colorado so I could rock climb every day. After several months of climbing, I went back to lawyering. I still climb occasionally, but most of my free time now is spent with my wife, two children, and four computers.
Teaching and writing have been big parts of my life. I taught law at CSU for several years as an adjunct instructor and I have published academic articles, legal practice articles, and climbing stories. I am the co-editor of the Auto Litigation section of Trial Talk magazine published by the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association.
I do presentations at Continuing Legal Education seminars. My teaching emphases are power, persuasion, strategy, storytelling, and Zen and the Art of Litigation.
I have tried personal injury and commercial cases in South Carolina and Colorado.
My mission is to make the world a better place for injured people. I do this directly by serving my clients well and indirectly by helping trial lawyers serve their clients well.
