Maverick Flowers jokes that he is “a recovering tax attorney.” Others have called him “a Swiss Army knife of tax.”
The descriptors fit. He’s never stayed neatly within one practice area.
A corporate attorney at Polsinelli, Flowers works across mergers and acquisitions, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, tax planning and estate planning, with experience in health care, education and affordable housing. He also advises on joint ventures between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. “I love it that way because no day is the same,” he said.
Flowers was named a 2026 Hispanic National Bar Association Top Lawyers Under 40, a national recognition of professional excellence, leadership, commitment to the Hispanic community and dedication to improving the legal profession.
From Biology to Tax
Flowers came to law, and then tax, gradually.
Raised by a single mother, Flowers was the first in his family to graduate from college. At the University of Alabama, he first followed a pre-med track, influenced by his mother’s career in health care.
Eventually, he shifted toward political science and public policy. “I still wanted to work in health care and address problems on a larger scale,” he said.
That interest led him to the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Then came tax. A friend with an accounting background persuaded Flowers to sit in on a graduate tax course, and he was hooked. He ultimately pursued an LL.M. in taxation while completing his J.D.
“Tax policy finds its way into every sort of public policy problem,” he said. “It’s always used as a carrot, a stick to poke or prod behavior.”
Flowers interned with the U.S. Senate, completed a legal fellowship with the Colorado Secretary of State and later clerked for U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor in Alabama.
Connecting Worlds
Flowers often guides business owners throughout the life of a company. “I’m helping them get their business off the ground, helping them navigate selling it, or growing it and helping them guard it for the next generation,” he said.
He also works with nonprofits, which often have fewer resources but equally complex problems. Flowers bridges the two worlds by taking what he learns in one and applying it to the other sector. He said, “They’re not in two silos.”
Flowers knows something about moving between worlds himself. He divides his time between Nashville and Denver.
He was born in Denver, where his father’s family remains, but was raised in Nashville. He has maintained ties to both cities throughout his life. “I like having a foot in both,” he said. “Both feel like home.”
Opening Doors
Perhaps the most important bridges Flowers builds are outside his legal practice.
As a first-generation lawyer, he knows what it means to enter a profession without a family roadmap. Much of his community work focuses on making that path more visible and accessible to others.
Flowers has been active in the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, including serving as chair of its scholarship committee, and is treasurer of the Nashville Hispanic Bar Association. He also serves on the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association’s executive council.
Much of his work centers on mentorship. He advises law students and young lawyers on everything from which courses to take to navigating the transition from junior associate to more senior responsibilities. He meets with high school students interested in law and speaks at schools in Nashville and Denver, particularly those with predominantly Hispanic student populations.
“Seeing a visual representation can be powerful,” he said. “Seeing that there are people from your community that are in this profession and that this is a career option, that this is doable — that changes lives.”
Flowers’ community involvement has made him a better lawyer, too, he said, exposing him to perspectives that might otherwise be missing from a highly specialized practice. He said, “It just gives me a little bit more insight and intuition, helping me bridge those gaps.”