Randy Robinson
Randy Robinson
Randy Robinson is a visiting assistant professor teaching in the Lawyering Process Program. Randy graduated from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, earning both a J.D. and Certificate in Constitutional Rights and Remedies. During law school Randy served as a senior editor on the law review and received numerous academic awards. After law school, Randy served as a law clerk to The Honorable Monica M. Márquez of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Following his clerkship, Randy worked in Denver as a litigation associate at Reilly Pozner LLP and Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP. Randy’s private practice focused on complex commercial litigation, employment litigation matters, and insurance defense. Randy has experience in all phases of litigation, from factual development to written discovery, taking and defending of depositions to motions practice, opening arguments to jury instructions. Randy’s prior pro bono practice has included work on prisoner right’s cases. Randy has also served as Vice President and General Counsel of Kinetic Medical, and has extensive experience in business management. He is licensed to practice in the State of Colorado and admitted to practice before the Federal District Court, District of Colorado and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Randy’s scholarly agenda focuses on the intersection between law, technology, public policy, and the future.
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), also sometimes called token sales, have exploded as the fastest growing segment of the world-wide capital markets. ICOs gained prominence in 2016 following a $160 million raise by an entity called “The DAO.” (Connie Loizos, TechCrunch) ICO fundraises grew from an estimated $263 million in 2016 to north of $5 billion in 2017. (Oscar Williams-Grut, Business Insider) The trend has continued in 2018, with an estimated $9.5 billion raised through the first five months of the year. (Coinschedule; see also Katie Rooney, CNBC) Despite this growth, there is still considerable legal uncertainty as to the status of ICOs and whether they are subject to regulation as securities in the United States.