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Felipe Bohnet-Gomez

Felipe Bohnet-Gomez

Phone: 303-578-4400

Fax: 303-578-4401

Email: [email protected]

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Felipe Bohnet-Gomez is a partner at Rathod Mohamedb­hai LLC. Felipe joined the firm in 2018. His prac­tice focuses on civil rights and employ­ment dis­crim­i­na­tion.  His entire career has been ded­i­cated to pro­tect­ing and enforc­ing the rights of employ­ees in the workplace.

Prior to join­ing Rathod Mohamedb­hai LLC, Felipe spent five years rep­re­sent­ing indi­vid­ual whistle­blow­ers and employ­ees in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., and secured multimillion-dollar whistle­blower awards for sev­eral clients.

Felipe has rep­re­sented clients in cases involv­ing claims brought under whistle­blower reward pro­grams with the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice, the U.S. Secu­ri­ties and Exchange Com­mis­sion, and the Com­mod­ity Futures Trad­ing Com­mis­sion, in cases involv­ing fraud against the U.S. gov­ern­ment, as well as in retal­i­a­tion cases before the U.S. Merit Sys­tems Pro­tec­tion Board.

In law school, Felipe served as an arti­cles edi­tor on the Har­vard Civil Rights-Civil Lib­er­ties Law Review, and also par­tic­i­pated in the school’s Poverty Law Clinic, where he helped sev­eral clients suc­cess­fully chal­lenge the denial of dis­abil­ity benefits.

EDUCATION

  • Har­vard Law School, Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts, J.D, 2011
    • Dean’s Scholar Prize, Constitutional Law
  • Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mis­souri, B.A., Biol­ogy and Amer­i­can Stud­ies, 2007
    • Lynne Cooper Harvey Scholar

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

  • Treasurer, Colorado Bar Association Labor & Employment Section (2021-present)
  • Treasurer, Colorado Hispanic Bar Association (2022-present)
  • Board Member, Colorado Hispanic Bar Association (2020-present)
  • Board Member, Secretary, CBR YouthConnect (2019-2021)
  • Board of Governors, Colorado Bar Association (2019-2020)

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

  • Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” — Employment Litigation (2022)
  • 5280 Magazine “Top Lawyers” — Labor/Employment: Plaintiff (2022)
  • Denver Bar Association, Pro Bono Star, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Section 1983 Litigation, Pueblo County Bar Ass’n (February 2021)
  • Employee Rights During COVID-19, Denver University (June 2020)
  • Police Misconduct, Denver University Civil Rights Summit (February 2019)

LANGUAGES

  • Span­ish (fluent)
  • Ger­man (fluent)

BAR ADMISSIONS

  • Col­orado
  • New York
  • Dis­trict of Columbia
  • United States District Court for the District of Colorado
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Dis­trict of Colum­bia Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York
  • United States Tax Court