Amy Casey, Esq.

Senior Associate Attorney

About:

Amy Casey graduated magna cum laude with her Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Sociology. She was also a member of the Psi Chi Honor Society. Ms. Casey earned her Juris Doctor in 2008 from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and began practicing law while still a student through the Student Practice Act. While at DU Law, Ms. Casey won the Most Outstanding Student award for the Criminal Law School clinic and successfully appealed a case to the Colorado Court of Appeals, which overturned a wrongful conviction for her client. Her other impactful experiences while in law school include being a legal intern to the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, a judicial clerkship for the District Court in Jefferson County Colorado, and a legal assistantship for a prestigious and nationally recognized civil defense firm in Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Casey also studied International Human Rights Law in India where she had the opportunity to meet (and hold hands with!) His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For the last 10 years, Ms. Casey has been the National Anthem singer for DU’s law school graduation.

For 10 years, Ms. Casey worked as a Colorado State Deputy Public Defender in downtown Denver, handling thousands of criminal cases for indigent clients. These cases ranged in complexity and severity from routine traffic matters such as DUI/DUID, vehicular assault, or eluding, to sensitive juvenile matters with children who were held in custody, to the devastating and far-ranging felonies facing clients such as kidnapping, home-invasion burglaries, possession of a weapon by a previous offender, drug possession and distribution, escape from prison, complex economic crime cases, myriad sexual crimes such as child and adult sex assaults and statutory rape, assaults, homicides, and many more. Ms. Casey also worked–and often led–the team of public defenders in the then-burgeoning state treatment courts, such as Sobriety Court and Drug Court, where she specialized in strategizing and implementing community-based treatment structures as an alternative to prison or extended jail terms, which so often impacts an individual in many ways beyond just their freedom.

Personal insights into Ms. Casey reveal an author, international traveler, devoted mother, and passionate advocate and volunteer. Ms. Casey co-authored a chapter in the 2022 legal textbook, Special Education Law and Policy: From foundations to application (Plural Publishing). Both in her youth as an Army brat, and later as a young professional, Ms. Casey lived all over the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, and throughout the USA. In addition to traveling, her hobbies are singing, volunteering, and hanging out with her adorable son. Ms. Casey has a lifelong history of volunteerism. These include being the lead female vocalist with international philanthropic group Up with People, reading books for the blind, hosting sites for Habitat for Humanity, and other myriad volunteer opportunities.

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