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This week’s 5Q features Caleb Durling, office managing partner at Fox Rothschild’s Denver office. Durling has 17 years of experience in private practice.
Question 1: What is your favorite restaurant, and what’s your favorite thing to order there?
Durling: Joy Hill in Platt Park. My favorite pizza is the hot honey with cupped pepperoni.
Q2: What’s your favorite movie or TV show?
Durling: I love watching Premier League soccer with my three boys on Saturday mornings. We’re big Arsenal fans at our house.
Q3: Which celebrity was on the posters you had hanging on your teenage bedroom wall?
Durling: If I was lucky enough, I’d score a Michael Jordan poster in my box of Wheaties, and that went right up on my bedroom wall.
Q4: If you could choose to master a musical instrument that you don’t already know how to play, which one would it be and why?
Durling: Funny story: My mom worked a number of part-time jobs while I was growing up, one of which was as a music teacher. But I would never give in and take lessons. In college, I thought better of that and surprised her by playing the piano, but I wasn’t very good. If I could go back, I would learn to play guitar.
Q5: What is your favorite clause of the Constitution and why?
Durling: My favorite clause of the Constitution is the Contract Clause, which prohibits states from passing laws that “impair the obligation of contracts.” Over the last 15 years, the application of the Contract Clause in state and federal constitutions has arguably become one of the most significant parts of my practice. I work with a lot of public pension clients, and the clause has been the basis of a myriad of changes in these plans, which has led to a steady uptick of litigation.
Read more about Durling and his legal experience at www.foxrothschild.com/caleb-durling.
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