Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr.
Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr.
Herrick is a business lawyer who practices in the areas of business transactions, including limited liability company and corporate formation and organization, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, ethics, and securities. He is well-known in the Colorado legal community as a successful attorney and an accomplished author. In addition to his legal practice, Herrick has been an adjunct professor of business law at both the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the University of Colorado Law School, and frequently presents to professional organizations on topics related to securities law, ethics, limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships.
Herrick has served numerous times as an expert witness in cases involving corporate, limited liability company, partnership, securities and ethics matters. I have been qualified as an expert witness in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the District Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, the District Courts for Arapahoe, Adams, Boulder, and Jefferson Counties, Colorado, and various arbitration tribunals.
Herrick has both aided in drafting bills and testifying on behalf of the Colorado Bar Association before the Colorado General Assembly on numerous bills.
Throughout his storied legal career, Herrick has served in various leadership positions, including as President managing his former law firm (January 2012-January 2020), on the Colorado Securities Board and as a member (and past chair) of the Executive Council of the Colorado Bar Association’s Business Law Section, as well as on the Colorado Secretary of State’s Business Advisory Board.
Herrick has been honored for his dedication to the principles of legal professionalism with various awards recognizing his contributions to the advancement of Colorado business law and for his efforts to enhance the quality of business law practiced by attorneys throughout the state. In addition, Herrick has published more than 30 articles in the Colorado Lawyer (CBA) and other law reviews and more than 100 papers in various newsletters (including the CBA’s Business Law Section newsletter).
A retired Lieutenant Commander with the U.S. Navy, Herrick graduated from Cornell University in 1971 and earned his law degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1978.
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Education
- University of Colorado – Boulder, Colorado, J.D. (1978)
- Business Manager and Editor, University of Colorado Law Review, 1977-1978
- “Regionalism or Parochialism: A Land Use Planner’s Dilemma,” 48 U. Colo. L. Rev. 575 (1977)
- Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve (1975-1983)
- Officer, active-duty United States Navy (1971 -1975)
- Cornell University, Ithica, New York B.A. (1971)
Published Works
- The Colorado Lawyer has published more than 30 articles on business and securities law authored by Herrick Lidstone
- Author, the Securities Law Deskbook (2006-2018 (CLE in Colorado, Inc.)
- Co-Author, Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships in Colorado (2015-2019), with Allen Sparkman
- Co-Author, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations, 6th Ed., with William Krems and Richard Robinson ALI-ABA (1989)
- Contributor to several legal treatises including Holderness and Wunnicke’s Legal Opinion Letters Formbook (Aspen Law & Business, 3rd Ed. 2010 and Supplements) and Rozansky and Reichert’s Practioner’s Guide to Colorado Business Organizations, Colorado Bar Assn. (2008 and supplements).
- Author of more than 80 papers published on the social science research network and is consistently listed among the top 10% of the SSRN’s more than 2,397,000 published authors.
Seminars/Presentations
Herrick has lectured at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, has been an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (1986-1997, 2012, and 2014 through 2017) and at the University of Colorado School of Law (2009).
During his career, Herrick has presented more than 120 papers for various professional organizations on securities law, ethics, corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships.
Honors & Awards
- Listed in the Best Lawyers® in America (2012 – 2026)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Securities/Capital Markets Law
- Corporate Law
- Recognized by Colorado Super Lawyers® in Business & Corporate, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (2013 – 2026)
- Who’s Who in the World
- 2022 Recipient of the University of Colorado Law School award for “Alumni in Private Practice
- 2019 Recipient of the Richard N. Doyle CLE Award of Excellence from Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. for “dedication and outstanding contributions to CBA-CLE programs and publications.”
- 2018 Recipient of the Cathy Stricklin Krendl Lifetime Achievement Award, which is “bestowed from time to time on a lawyer who has, over an extended period of time, manifested intellectual and professional excellence in the practice of, or scholarship on, Colorado business law; the recipient’s generosity of spirit as reflected in the recipient’s participation in, and contribution to, the advancement of Colorado business law; the recipient’s efforts to enhance the general quality of business law practice by Colorado lawyers; and the recipient’s devotion to the principles of legal professionalism.”
Professional Associations & Memberships
- Member, Secretary of State Advisory Panel (2021 to Present)
- Member, Secretary of State Working Group established by CRS 7-90-315 (2022-2023)
- Member, Arapahoe County, Denver, and Colorado Bar Associations, and American Bar Association
- Colorado Bar Association representative to the American Bar Association’s Working Group on Legal Opinions (since 2007)
- Member, Executive Council of the Colorado Bar Association’s Business Law Section (Chair, 2013; Vice Chair, 2011-2013; Secretary/Treasurer, 2009-2011)
- Member, Committee of the Bar Association tasked with considering amendments to the Colorado Corporation Code (1988-1992) and the Colorado Business Corporation Act (1996-Present) (co-chair, 2014-2023)
- Member and Recording Secretary of Bar Association Committee dealing with benefit corporation legislation (2010 to 2013)
Chair, Transition Subcommittee (Chapter 17), Colorado Corporation Code Revision Committee of the Colorado Bar Association (1988-1990) - Member, Committee of the Bar Association assisting the Securities Commissioner in drafting rules to implement the Colorado Securities Act of 1990 (1990-1991)
- Member, Denver Association of Oil and Gas Title Lawyers (Secretary, 1993-1994; President, 1994-1995; Trustee, 2021 to present)
- Member, Board of Directors, Kodiak Oil & Gas, Inc. (NYSE: KOG) from March 2006 – December 2014, chair, Compensating and Nominating Committee, and member, Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member, Board of Directors, South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce (www.bestchamber.com) from 2016-2020 and its Legislative Action Committee since 2010.
- Fellow Emeritus, Colorado Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Colorado Bar Association (since 2003)
- Fellow Emeritus, Arapahoe Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Arapahoe County Bar Association (since 2005)