This week’s 5Q features Joseph Bohling, an advisory director-attorney at Fairfield and Woods, P.C., where his practice area is Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions, with a focus on private equity/venture capital startups. He prefers coffee — lots of it — during trial prep and digital over paper briefs. He is neither an early-bird nor night owl lawyer. Bohling quipped, “Sleep is for the weak!”
Question 1: What do you like most about Colorado?
Bohling: Colorado’s majestic beauty!
Q2: What do you like least about Colorado?
Bohling: State income taxes.
Q3: If you weren’t a lawyer, what would you be doing in Colorado?
Bohling: Retired and driving my wife crazy as I would be home far too much.
Q4: What’s something you know now that you wish you’d known when you began practicing?
Bohling: Emotional intelligence oftentimes is as powerful if not more so than having the highest IQ in the room.
Q5: What does “justice” mean to you?
Bohling: Justice is not about a feeling but a reckoning of events. It’s the moment when the weight of every broken promise, every violated right, every clause breached in bad faith ultimately meets a positive force equal to the situation. It is the essence of civilization — saying that what you wrongly take will be returned with meaningful consequence.
Bohling, who has more than 30 years of experience as a licensed attorney, attended the University of Colorado Law School.
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