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jramp@kghllaw.com
Jerremy Ramp came on board at KGHL in 2003. His practice focuses on negotiating and litigating family law and civil law matters. Jerremy's civil cases are primarily in the area of Constitutional issues and civil rights. His family law cases involve all aspects of domestic relations law.
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Jerremy graduated in 2003 from Notre Dame Law School. While in law school, Jerremy spent a rewarding summer with Colorado Legal Services as the Notre Dame Alumni Funded Fellowship. Jerremy continues to work with this program and coordinates and fundraises to bring one to two Notre Dame law students to intern with Colorado Legal Services each summer. Jerremy spent the second year of law school in the Concannon Programme of International Law in London. While in London, he interned for the Department of Justice's Office of Foreign Litigation at the U.S. Embassy and he was a summer associate in the London office of Kilpatrick Stockton LLC.
Jerremy completed his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame in 1999, after which he joined Dr. Susan Sheridan on an anthropology research project in Jerusalem examining the skeletal remains of Byzantine monks and the Dead Sea Scrolls/Qumran skeletons. While in Jerusalem, he volunteered at Augusta Victoria Hospital.
Jerremy is a graduate of the 2007 Colorado Institute for Leadership Training program , and is a member of the Denver, Colorado, and American Bar Associations. He frequently represents pro bono clients as part of the Metro Volunteer Lawyers Family Law Court Program as well. Jerremy joined the Metro Volunteer Lawyers board of directors in the fall of 2007. He was also named to the Family Law Section Legislative Committee of the Colorado Bar Association.
Jerremy and his wife spend their time restoring a 100 year old home. When not rewiring and plastering, he enjoys getting up to the mountains for snowboarding, camping, and motorcycling.
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I have represented clients in negotiations, mediation and litigation, involving issues of child custody, child support, maintenance, and property division, including:
- Valuing professional practices and closely-held corporations.
- Valuing and tracing separate property claims.
- Prosecuting and defending against claims of underreported income and imputation of income.
- Mediating and litigating high conflict parenting time disputes.
- Analyzing the validity and effect of marital agreements (prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements).
- Obtaining and defending against maintenance awards.
- Cases in which paternity is at issue.
- Litigating post-decree issues and enforcement of orders.
- Appellate work arising from dissolution of marriage cases.
- §1983 litigation involving the illegal search of client's home in violation of Fourth Amendment.
- Obtained eviction for landlord when police search warrant revealed tenants conducting drug activity on landlord's property.
- Filed and favorably settled defamation action on behalf of client accused of illegal activity.
- Defense of former president and chairman of board of non-profit brought into lawsuit as third-party defendant.
- Assisted with research and drafting of expert report in attorney fee case on behalf of a forty-year employee of a private golf club who was terminated in violation of federal civil rights laws.
- Counsel for two Denver residents forcibly removed from a speech by President Bush on Social Security in violation of the clients' First and Fourth Amendment rights.
- Lawsuit in federal court on behalf of student editors of university newspaper against board of trustees for allegedly unconstitutional funding cut based on content of the newspaper.
- Metro Volunteer Lawyers Family Law Court Program; frequently represent pro bono domestic relations clients with issues involving child custody, child support, maintenance and property division through DBA-sponsored program.
- Kelly Garnsey Hubbell + Lass LLC (Denver, Colorado): Associate, 2003-present; Summer Associate, 2002
- Kilpatrick Stockton, LLC (London): Summer Associate, 2002
- Department of Justice, Office of Foreign Litigation, U.S. Embassy in London: Intern, Spring 2002
- Colorado Legal Services: Notre Dame Law Association Alumni Funded Fellow, Summer 2001
- Dr. Susan Sheridan (Jerusalem): Physical anthropology research and teaching assistant, 1999-2000
- Augusta Victoria Hospital (Jerusalem): Volunteer, 1999-2000
J.D., University of Notre Dame, 2003
Honors: Notre Dame Concannon Programme of International Law, London 2001-2002; 2002 Jessup International Moot Court Team, 3rd in U.K. National Competition; Teaching Assistant, Comparative Politics, Fall 2002; International Trial Lawyers Association Award, 2003.
B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1999
Honors: Notre Dame Rowing Team, Elected Officer, 1995-1999; London Program, Fall 1997; Anthropology Honor Society.
Admitted to practice in Colorado, United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
Denver, Colorado (Member: Legislative Policy Committee), and American Bar Associations.
Metro Volunteer Lawyers Family Law Court Program: frequently represent pro bono clients through DBA-sponsored program.
Board Member of Metro Volunteer Lawyers, Fall, 2007-present.
Colorado Institute for Leadership Training, graduate class of 2007.
Sheridan S.G., Ullinger J., and Ramp J. (2003). "Anthropological analysis of the human remains from Khirbet Qumran: The French Collection." In: The Archaeology of Qumran II, J-B Humbert and J Gunneweg, eds., Fribourg: Presses Universitaires de Fribourg, Suisse and the École Biblique et Archéologique Française.
Acknowledged in Manuel A. Ramos, Colorado Landlord-Tenant Law, 3d ed., 2002.
Interviewed in "Dead Sea Scrolls" (Discovery channel broadcast), Jan. 10, 2002.
"Our Mission of Service," Notre Dame Lawyer, Fall/Winter 2001, at 45.
Limited conversational Spanish and Arabic
What do you like best about your job?
The best part about my job is working with such an intelligent and compassionate group of people who are incredibly good at what they do.
If you were something other than an attorney, what would you be?
Racecar driver - either F1 or Rally.
Name the last great book you read.
Life of Pi.
What is your favorite movie about lawyers, and why?
A Few Good Men - "You can't handle the truth." Whenever I don't know what to do in court, that's what I shout.
Who would win in an office arm-wrestling contest?
Vegas odds heavily favor Jerremy M. Ramp.
Favorite ski run?
Anything thru trees and deep powder at Wolf Creek.
What was your proudest moment as a lawyer?
When I got the call from my client - the mother of a kidnapped two-year-old little girl, who hadn't had her daughter for over a year - informing me that her daughter was back with her.
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