Attorneys & Staff - Boulder Accident Lawyers
- Gerald C. Sloat
- P. Randolph Nicholson
- Ingrid Jensen
- Stephanie Sandler
- Elise Winslow
- Sonia Call
- Susie Averbeck
- Anna Thompson
Gerald C. Sloat - Boulder Injury Attorney
Gerald Sloat was born in New York on January 12, 1945. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester, NY and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1969. He passed the New York State Bar Exam that year and began practicing law in New York City. Two years later he moved to Boulder Colorado.
Mr. Sloat has been practicing law in Colorado since 1971 and is still admitted in New York. His practice is limited to personal injury law. Mr.Sloat has been awarded the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards through a national rating process and has been selected as a "Colorado Super Lawyer" for 2010. He enjoys what he does and he cares about his clients, his profession and his community.
Gerald Sloat’s resume reflects his extensive professional and personal achievements and includes information about his memberships, activities, speeches, publications, honors and awards. He is particularly proud of serving as President of the Boulder County Bar Foundation and of being named a Colorado TV News 4 “Hometown Hero” after being nominated, anonymously, by one of his clients.
Gerald Sloat’s office is wheelchair accessible on the ground floor of the Folsom Professional Building in Boulder. He works with his partner, Randy Nicholson, four paralegals, and two support staff. Mr. Sloat has over 40 years of legal experience and Mr. Nicholson has over 30 years of legal experience. In addition, Mr. Sloat’s paralegals have an average of over 20 years of legal and insurance experience and have worked with Mr. Sloat for an average of over 15 years.
P. Randolph Nicholson - Boulder Injury Attorney
P. Randolph Nicholson was born in Greensboro, North Carolina on October 2,1954. He graduated from the University of Connecticut, cum laude, in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration. He attended graduate business school in 1977 and then received a J.D. from the University of Connecticut Law School in 1980. During law school, he served as a research assistant to the head of the Tax Department and received the Prentice Hall Award for Achievement in Taxation in 1980.
Following graduation from law school, Mr. Nicholson practiced in a two attorney firm in Eastern Connecticut where his practice consisted exclusively of personal injury and workers compensation matters.
He moved to Colorado in 1984 and practiced in Denver, Colorado, becoming a partner in the firm Salmon, Godsman & Nicholson in1989. He joined Gerald Sloat’s firm in Boulder in January 2002. Mr. Nicholson is admitted to the bar in Colorado and Connecticut as well as in both the Colorado Federal District Court and the Federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. His practice is limited to personal injury and appellate law. He has numerous published appellate decisions and has served as an amicus appellate brief writer for the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. All of this can be found in Mr. Nicholson’s resume.
Mr. Nicholson served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association from 1990 to 2007.
Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen was born in New York and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended college in Nebraska and later worked as a real estate agent in Illinois. She moved to Boulder in 1980 and was employed as a legal assistant, taking paralegal classes at night. She was a co-owner/operator of a paralegal services business and began working for Gerald Sloat in 1985. She attends legal education programs on a regular basis and is the senior paralegal at Sloat & Nicholson, P.C.
Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler was born and raised in the mid-west and attended Kansas University. She moved to Boulder in 1971 and began working with Gerald Sloat in 1977. In the 1980s she was the co-owner of a small business and returned to full time work at the law firm in 1992. She is a legal assistant at the law firm, a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and attends legal education programs on a regular basis.
Elise Winslow
Elise Winslow grew up in Southern Louisiana but has called Colorado home since she arrived to attend college in 1976. She brings to the firm over twenty-five years of paralegal experience covering a broad range of practice areas. Elise provides paralegal and litigation support to Mr. Sloat and Mr. Nicholson. She is a past president of the Rocky Mountain Paralegal Association and also served as treasurer for the National Federation of Paralegal Associations.
Sonia Call
Sonia grew up in Littleton, Colorado. She attended Georgia State University for her undergraduate work and completed her paralegal training in Atlanta as well. She has been a paralegal for ten years and attends legal education programs on a regular basis. Sonia has lived in Wyoming, Nebraska, Georgia, and Utah, and returned home to Colorado with her husband and three children in 2005.
Susie Averbeck
Susie Averbeck was born and raised in Wisconsin. She lived in Florida, Hawaii, and New Zealand before arriving in Colorado in 2005. She joined Sloat & Nicholson, PC in 2006 as the firm’s office manager and bookkeeper. Susie graduated from Concordia University in St. Paul Minnesota in 2009 with a Marketing Management degree, and is a medical Certified Professional Coder with the American Academy of Professional Coders since 1998.
Anna Thompson
Anna Thompson was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Boulder and Niwot, Colorado. She is a graduate of Colorado University and taught English in Japan for two years and Colorado public schools for two years. She is the firm’s receptionist and also works as a legal assistant. Anna has been employed by Sloat and Nicholson, P.C. since 2007.
The Law Firm of Sloat & Nicholson P.C. are experienced Boulder personal injury lawyers handling cases involving motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, insurance bad failth, medical malpractice, and all types of accident injury cases in Boulder, Longmont, Denver, and throughout the state of Colorado. Call 800-873-3202 today to discuss your case with a Bouder injury attorney, or simply fill out our case consultation form.
