He previously served as a Skadden Fellow at Towards Justice, a Denver-based impact litigation firm that represents low-wage workers. He also clerked for Judge Arguello and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and immigrated with his family to the United States when he was three. Dermot has called Denver his home for most of his life. Between college at Loyola University and law school at Yale, Dermot spent three years living in the town of Tacna, in Southern Peru, where he taught high school English and helped run an after-school program.