Bar/Professional Activity:

• Judge William E. Doyle Inn of Court, American Inns of Court
• American Association for Justice, Member
• Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Member
• American Bar Association, Member
• Denver Bar Association, Member
• Texas Bar Association, Member
• Colorado Bar Association, Member

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Mr. Koupal serves on the Board of Trustees for Havern School, a school providing a specialized education program for elementary and middle school students with diagnosed learning disabilities.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Disqualification of Counsel - Lawyers' Professional Liability in Colorado: Preventing Legal Malpractice & Disciplinary Actions (Michael Mihm, managing editor).
• Ski Law in Colorado: The Timorous No Longer Stay At Home No. 2, 2002., The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 31.
• Professional Liability Issues for Litigators: Disqualification of Counsel, Presenter, CBA CLE, 2010
• Review and analysis of recent changes in Colorado law of subrogation claims in personal injury cases., Author, CRS § 10-1-135 and the Changing Face of Subrogation Claims in Colorado, The Colorado Lawyer, 2011

Verdicts and Settlements:

• $10.1 Million Med Mal Verdict – Assisted in trial resulting in jury verdict for minor suffering traumatic brain injury following delay by his pediatrician in treating symptoms of brain tumor., 2007
• Punitives for Dangerous Hotel Shower- A Denver jury awarded $240,400 to Ms. Carol Wilson, who slipped and fell in her hotel bathtub at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver, formerly the Adams Mark, resulting in a thoracic vertebrae fracture. Ms. Wilson’s bathroom shower was not equipped with a slip-resistant bathmat, a slip-resistant surface or a safety bar., 2009
• TBI Victim Suffers $1.1 Million Loss - Assistant principal at an Aurora middle school slipped in a puddle of glycol which had been leaking from the ceiling of a classroom. The glycol was leaking from a pipe in the ceiling, which had recently been installed as a part of a retrofit of the school’s entire HVAC system. Our client fell, striking her head first on the edge of a large, wooden teacher’s desk, and then on the tile floor. She suffered a traumatic brain injury. Claims were filed against the mechanical engineering firm who designed the HVAC system and the mechanical company who installed the system. The matter settled for a confidential amount weeks before trial., 2009

Educational Background:

• 1999, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, B.A., Major: Sociology.