 T. Cass McKenzie
Education: University of Oklahoma, BA, 1987
University of San Francisco, JD, 1992
For the past 16 years, Cass has represented developers, contractors, homeowners associations and individual homeowners in construction defect cases. For the last 10 years, Cass has focused solely on representing homeowners and homeowners associations in construction defect actions.
Cass has served for 6 years on the board of directors for the Community Associations Institute (CAI), an organization of 500 members in Denver that focuses on community association issues. He also served as the President of CAI in 2004. Cass has spoken on construction defect-related topics throughout the Front Range and numerous mountain communities. He has also participated in state legislative committees on various issues relating to construction defect laws in Colorado, including co-authoring Amendment 34, a homeowner rights initiative placed on the 2004 general election ballot, and co-authoring the Homeowner Protection Act, which was passed into Colorado law in 2007. That Act now protects Colorado Homeowners from being forced to waive their basic rights in sales contracts and HOA Declarations.
Cass has also served the Denver community as an appointee of Mayor Hickenlooper to the St. Anthonys Central Development Task Force and is a member of the Colorado chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). In addition, Cass was lead counsel for the firm’s precedent-setting Supreme Court victory in the Yacht Club II case. Yacht Club II has been cited on numerous occasions by other attorneys in legal articles and court pleadings.
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 R. Christopher Rhody
Education: Georgetown University, BA, 1989
University of San Francisco, JD, 1992
Mr. Rhody is a founding member of McKenzie Rhody & Hearn, LLC. His entire legal career has involved construction defect litigation. He got his start defending some of the country’s largest home builders. However, since 1998, Chris has concentrated on representing homeowners and homeowners associations in construction defect lawsuits in Colorado.
Mr. Rhody is a past board member of the Southern Colorado Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (CAI). He has also spoken throughout the United States on construction defect issues, including presentations at the AEI-Brookings Judicial Symposium on Critical Issues in Construction Defects Litigation; the Mealey’s Construction Defect SuperConference; and Lorman construction defect seminars. Chris has also written numerous articles on construction defect issues affecting homeowners and homeowners associations. Mr. Rhody received his BA from Georgetown University in 1989, and his JD from the University of San Francisco in 1992.
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 Michael A. Hearn
Education: University of Delaware, BA, 1974
Western State University College of Law, JD, 1979
Mike has practiced in the area of construction defect litigation since 1983 and he has practiced exclusively in this area for the past 20 years. Mike has represented over 200 homeowners associations and 600 individual homeowners in construction defect claims brought against developers, builders and subcontractors. He has also represented owners of commercial buildings, apartments, raw land and even self-storage facilities.
Mike has spoken at numerous seminars concerning construction defect litigation. Considered a leading authority on the topic, Mike has even been asked on several occasions to speak to the insurance and homebuilding industries about construction defect issues. Mike has also published several construction defect-related articles and was actively involved in the firm’s Supreme Court victories in the Yacht Club II and Eagle Ridge cases. |
