DENVER (Dec. 19, 2011) – Rick Kissinger of Denver-based law-firm Kissinger & Fellman P.C. has received the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the Colorado Motor Carriers Association for the multitude of legal issues that he has successfully handled for the CMCA over the years. Kissinger has served as general counsel for the CMCA since 2008, and he has been on the Board of Directors
since 1997.
“My many years of providing counsel to the CMCA and its members has been a highlight in my professional career,” Kissinger said. “I am proud to have been associated with the CMCA since the early 1970s. It is a distinct honor to receive this prestigious award.”
While he specializes in transportation law, Kissinger’s practice includes service as general counsel to many businesses, transactional law, highway accident litigation defense, business mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, commercial litigation, administrative / governmental law, and informal debt “work-out” transactions. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 from Texas Tech University and his law degree from the University of Texas in 1968. Following two years of private practice, he served as vice president and general counsel to a nationwide trucking company in Denver. He founded Kissinger & Fellman, P.C. in 1976, where he remains in active practice today.
He is a past president of the Transportation Lawyers Association (where he also won the distinguished service award in 1983), a past national vice president of the Association of Transportation Practitioners, a past national chairman of American Trucking Associations Oilfield Haulers Conference and a former adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law.
“The award recognizes an individual in our organization who has a long history of service and achievement within the trucking industry, and who has made substantial contributions to the betterment of CMCA,” said Gregory Fulton, president of the CMCA. “This is the most prestigious award presented by our association and Rick Kissinger is well-deserving of this honor for all of his work and contributions toward the betterment of our association and industry in Colorado.”
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