Mr. Wiemerslage has practiced law more than 30 years as a member of
government, in-house corporate counsel for public companies and his private law
firm.
He served as an Illinois Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Fraud
Division for five years.
He then served as attorney for Illinois Environmental Protection for 11 years, in its Divisions of Air, Land
and Water Pollution Control and Public Water Supplies.
He then served as attorney for Illinois Environmental Protection for 11 years, in its Divisions of Air, Land
and Water Pollution Control and Public Water Supplies.
He joined Marathon Oil Company in 1990, serving first as one of its
environmental attorneys, then as its lead Information Technology/computer software
licensing / hardware attorney until October 2003.
Mr. Wiemerslage then opened his own law firm in Colorado, practicing law in various areas as described in this website.
He is a former member of the American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association and Denver Petroleum Club
Mr. Wiemerslage is the past chairman of the Colorado Bar Association's Communications and Technology Law Section. He
is also member of the litigation section of the Colorado Bar Association.
Mr. Wiemerslage was appointed to the City of Fort Collins Telecommunications Board and was appointed by the Fort
Collins Area Chamber of Commerce to its Environmental Committee. He was elected chair of the Environmental Law Subcommittee of the then Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association while he was working in Texas
He has made numerous presentations on contracting and licensing issues in Information Technology, business formation, and estate planning.
Illinois, 1974
Texas, 1992 (inactive status)
Ohio, 2001 (inactive status)
Colorado, 2001
Not certified by the CO, IL, OH or TX boards of legal
specialization. No designation has been made by those boards for a certificate
of special competence in these areas of law.
Quincy University, Political Science, with Honors, 1971
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, 1974
Discovery of Electronic Backup Tapes and Shifting of Cost of Search and
Restoration to the Requesting Party, Review of Rowe Entertainment v. William
Morris Agency, et al. (2002) And Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, et al. (2003)
New Methamphetamine Law Affects Residential Contracts January 1, 2007, written in 2007
Selecting Your Business Entity Form, 2005
Turning Code into Gold – Roadmap to Business Success, 2004
An Introduction to The New (CO) Meth Lab Disclosure Law in Residential Real
Estate Transactions, 2007
Answering the Clients’ Legal Needs [in Estate Planning], 2006
Drafting and Negotiating Software Licenses and other Information Technology
Contracts, 2005
Software Licenses and other I.T. Contracts, 2006
Legal Issues on Web Content, 2007
Intellectual Property 101 (Drafting and Negotiating I.T. Contracts), 2005
Drafting and Negotiating Web Hosting and Web Design Contracts, 2007
Management of I.T. Negotiations from the Vendor’s Perspective, 2007, 2008
An Introduction to the Environmental Laws of the United States and Colorado,
2007
Legal Issues on Web Content, 2007
An Introduction to Environmental Laws Which May Affect Your Business Clients
in Northern Colorado, 2007
Global Warming: Science and Policy Issues, 2007 and 2008
Drafting Intellectual Property Licenses, Information Technology Contracts and
Related Documents, 2007
Writing Information Technology Contracts, 2007
Environmental Issues in Real Estate Transactions,
2007
Success is Intentional, 2008
Elected council member of the Colorado Bar Association Technology and Policy
Section
Telecommunications Board of the City of Fort Collins (2006-2007)
Environmental Committee - Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce 2006-2007
Former Information Technology chair for the Colorado Chapter of Quincy University Alums 2008
