Marlo Greer
Trial Lawyer. The Pink Advocate.
- Trial lawyer since 2001
- Legal commentator, Fox DC Legal Roundup, every Sunday
- Board of Directors, CHILD USA
- International speaker, PEOPIL and AAJ conferences
- Former medical defense lawyer
- Colorado Top Ten Verdicts, 2018
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
Marlo Greer does not call it an accident. Not when a driver was looking at a phone. Not when a surgeon left something behind. Not when an institution knew and said nothing. Someone made a choice, and someone else got hurt. That belief is the foundation of The Pink Advocate, and it’s the reason the people on the other side of her cases take her seriously.
Marlo is a trial lawyer, a legal commentator, and an international speaker. Every Sunday on Fox DC’s Legal Roundup, she breaks down the legal stories behind the headlines. She has spoken at the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL) in Barcelona and at American Association for Justice conferences, and she serves on the Board of Directors of CHILD USA, the national think tank working to protect children from abuse and neglect. In front of a jury, a camera, or a room full of lawyers, her message doesn’t change: harm that could have been prevented has to be answered for.
Her Practice
Marlo’s practice centers on serious injury and institutional accountability, including sexual abuse, medical malpractice, hospital negligence, nursing home neglect, and catastrophic injuries from vehicle collisions and dangerous property. She has handled cases involving surgical errors, retained instruments, birth injuries, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, mismanaged infections, nursing errors, and patient deaths. Her results range from five-figure cases to multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements.
She Knows the Other Side’s Playbook
Marlo has worked on every side of the table. She started in criminal defense and personal injury, then represented medical malpractice victims and people with traumatic brain and spine injuries at midsized plaintiff firms. She also defended medical professionals. That’s where she learned how the defense builds its story, how insurers decide what a claim is worth, and where those arguments tend to crack. Every case she takes now benefits from knowing that playbook.
Why It’s Personal
In law school, Marlo was thrown from a horse and fractured her spine. What followed taught her more than any classroom could: medical care that fell short, and insurance companies more focused on their bottom line than her recovery. She knows what it feels like to be the patient nobody is listening to. Her clients get the lawyer she needed back then.
Education and Admissions
Marlo graduated from the University of Colorado Denver in 1997 on the Dean’s scholarship for academic achievement. She earned her J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law in 2001, where she was named Student of the Year in the Student Law Office. Her trial work started early, in mock trial competitions and as a student lawyer for people accused of crimes who couldn’t afford representation.
She is licensed in Colorado state courts, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been admitted to practice in Indiana, Montana, and Wyoming. She is an active member of the American Association for Justice and a member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, the Colorado Women’s Bar Association, and the Colorado and Denver Bar Associations.
Outside the Courtroom
Marlo served on the Colorado State Board of Social Work Examiners, reviewing complaints under the Social Work Practice Act, and on a hospital board that reviews medical research aimed at improving patient care. She spent several years as garden leader for the Stapleton Greenway Garden, part of Denver Urban Gardens. She lives in Denver with her husband, attorney Brian Proffitt, and their two children, and runs at least four half-marathons a year. By her own account, that makes her only “half-crazy.”
“Institutions count on people being too hurt, too tired, or too intimidated to ask what really happened. I ask. Then I go find the answer.”
The Pink Advocate
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome in any future case.