Stacy Kourlis Guillon

 
 

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Stacy Kourlis Guillon understands the landscape of dispute resolution. She has been a fulltime neutral since 2021. She serves on the American Arbitration Association’s commercial and consumer panels. She is a commercial mediator certified by the Early Dispute Resolution Institute.

Before co-founding Decisioncraft, she was an attorney at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (formerly Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons), litigating complex cases of all varieties, including contract, land use, constitutional, education, and agricultural disputes. Before entering private practice, Stacy clerked for Judge Timothy Tymkovich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

While Stacy’s focus is now alternative dispute resolution, she brings to the table a wealth of understanding of the legal system, having worked not only as an attorney but also to evaluate ways to make the system better. She led empirical analysis of public trust and confidence in the American legal system and managed an international initiative to study class action procedure. At Decisioncraft, she applies that same analytical approach to parse complex legal issues and to craft innovative, tailor-made processes that best serve the parties’ unique interests. 

Stacy is available for arbitrations, mediations, and strategic analysis.

Awards

  • Named one of Denver’s Top Lawyers by 5280 Magazine, 2020-22

  • Included in Who’s Who in Agriculture, Denver Business Journal, 2019

Education

  • Juris Doctor, Stanford University

  • Master of Science, Environment and Resources with focus in Agriculture and Land Use, Stanford University

  • Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College

Affiliations

  • Board of Directors, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, 2017-present

  • Trustee, National Western Stock Show Association, 2018-present

  • AgIndustry Leadership Council, Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences

  • Colorado Vice President, Tenth Circuit Historical Society

  • Board of Directors, Colorado FFA Foundation, 2015-20

Publications & Speaking Engagements

  • Hon. Chase Rogers (ret.) and Stacy Guillon, Giving Up on Impartiality: The Threat of Public Capitulation to Contemporary Attacks on the Rule of Law, Inst. for the Advancement of the Am. L. Sys. (2019).

  • David Evans, Stacy Guillon, et al., Dispute Resolution Enhanced: How Arbitrators and Mediators Can Harness Generative AI, Dispute Resolution Journal (Jan. 2024).

  • Speaker, How Arbitrators and Mediators Can Use Generative AI Effectively, ABA Annual Spring Conference (forthcoming April 2024)

Areas of Experience

Stacy has handled cases in many subject matters as a mediator/arbitrator and as a litigator. Those subject matter areas include:

• General commercial
- Commercial contracts
- Business formation, interest, and dissolution (e.g., partnerships)
• Land use and natural resources
 - Real estate
- Energy (transmission, oil and gas, coal)
- Agriculture
- Water
- Easements and other property rights
- Green energy
• Education
• Estate/Probate
• Fiduciary
• Fraud