New Partners 2025

Over the past year, roughly 84 partners were added to or elevated at local firms. The attorneys practice in a wide range of areas, from real estate and commercial litigation to labor and employment and public utilities. Congratulations to all the new partners this year! 

The following information was provided directly to Law Week or has been pulled from press releases and firm websites based on announcements sent to Law Week throughout the year and for its annual New Partners feature.


Shawna Ruetz – Husch Blackwell
Practice: labor and employment
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Ruetz is a seasoned litigator with a unique background in human resources, offering a deep understanding of employer needs in both courtroom settings and everyday advisory roles. She represents clients in federal and state courts, handling complex employment issues such as discrimination, wage disputes and trade secrets, while also providing strategic counsel on routine labor matters.

Allison Pofit Altaras – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Altaras advises developers, investors and landowners who are buying, selling, financing, entitling, developing or redeveloping projects in Colorado and the Mountain West. Her experience includes zoning and land use matters, mixed-use and master-planned communities and multifamily, commercial, resort and industrial development.

Kyle Blackmer – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Working with both lenders and borrowers, Blackmer handles financing transactions for virtually every type of asset. He assists with financing transactions that support large projects such as industrial parks, senior living centers, mixed-use and multifamily developments.

Paige Coriden – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: corporate transactions
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Coriden works with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups focused on growth. Her deal experience includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other combinations and equity and debt financing.

Mark Gibson – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Gibson’s experience includes disputes involving renewable energy projects, insurance, real estate and development and civil rights complaints. He also represents companies and individuals outside the traditional courtroom setting, including in arbitrations and mediations and during investigations conducted by government agencies.

Juan Obregon – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: labor and employment
Alma mater: Tulane University Law School
Obregon represents employers in disputes involving claims of discrimination, retaliation, wrongful discharge and other employment-related matters, including noncompete agreements and wage-based claims. He frequently provides advice and counsel on wage and hour issues, independent contractor issues and noncompete agreements.

Justin Nyberg – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of New Mexico School of Law
Nyberg assists clients with matters relating to real estate transactions, development projects and real property issues. His practice focuses on high-end residential, resort and commercial real estate transactions, leasing and development activities in Colorado.

Austin Rueschhoff – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: public utilities
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Rueschhoff assists clients on nearly all aspects of public utility regulation, including rate setting and reliability issues, permitting, rulemakings and litigation matters. His practice is focused on state and federal regulation of utilities and electricity generators.

Laurie Rogers – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: labor and employment
Alma mater: University of Wyoming College of Law
Rogers advises local and national clients on a broad range of employment disputes, defending them in the courtroom, before administrative agencies and in arbitration proceedings. She counsels employers on matters involving Title VII, age and disability discrimination, noncompete covenants and wage and hour issues.

Trent Timmons – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: tax
Alma mater: Stanford Law School
Timmons advises clients on tax matters in connection with business transactions. His practice focuses on the federal income tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, restructurings, formations and financings.

Aaron Tucker – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: environmental
Alma mater: University of Texas School of Law
Tucker provides clients with effective assistance and representation on a variety of environmental compliance, enforcement and litigation issues. With a focus on air quality, Tucker counsels clients on permitting, compliance and enforcement and rulemaking.

Alex White – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
White represents clients at all phases of dispute resolution, from initial disagreement to litigation to appeal. White represents companies of all sizes operating in a variety of industry sectors, including hospitality and real estate, manufacturing, technology and natural resources.

Kimberly Brunelle Willis – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Brunelle Willis represents clients facing high-stakes complex civil litigation in federal and state court, mediation, formal arbitration proceedings and internal and white-collar investigations, including by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Department of Justice.

Diane Wozniak – Holland & Hart LLP
Practice: trust and estate litigation
Alma mater: University of Houston Law Center
Wozniak is an advisor to high-net-worth individuals entering into and ending marriages. She works with individuals, families and family offices on a range of premarital agreements designed to protect generational wealth.

Errol Brown – Haynes Boone
Practice: sports law
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Brown advises companies in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on sports, media, entertainment and technology. His practice is focused on corporate transaction and governance matters related to sports and entertainment venues, professional sport teams, broadcasting rights and emerging technologies.

Kelsey Schmidt – Haynes Boone
Practice: labor and employment
Alma mater: University of Wisconsin Law School
Schmidt gives employment advice and counsel to employers of all sizes, often representing them in litigation. Her practice covers discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, hiring, handbooks, absences, terminations and union avoidance.

Tariq Adawi – Davis Graham
Practice: corporate and business transactions
Alma mater: University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law
Adawi has established a robust practice in corporate and business transactions. He has a focus on start-ups, emerging companies and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions and various industries ranging from software and technology to aviation and hospitality.

Pamela Hirschman – Davis Graham
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: Georgetown University Law Center
Hirschman, a former trademark examining attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, possesses a broad range of experience in trademark law. Her practice spans trademark prosecution, post-registration maintenance and complex proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Aditi Kulkarni-Knight – Davis Graham
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Kulkarni-Knight focuses her practice on all stages of commercial litigation, covering diverse sectors such as energy, technology, public utilities and private equity. She has defended corporate and individual clients against claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, fraud, negligence and other tort claims.

Claire Mueller – Davis Graham
Practice: product liability defense
Alma mater: The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Mueller focuses her practice on product liability defense, personal injury defense, complex commercial litigation, corporate control disputes and real estate disputes. She currently serves on the board of directors of Family Star Montessori and is a current member of the General Counsel Mentor Program.

Miriam Trudell – Davis Graham
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Trudell specializes in trademark, copyright and domain name law, offering comprehensive legal counsel in both domestic and international operations. Her practice includes trademark protection and maintenance, ex parte and opposition/cancellation proceedings and advising clients on copyright law and domain name disputes.

Ryan Wilcox – Davis Graham
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Wilcox maintains a diverse transactional real estate practice encompassing acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development and financing. In 2024, he was elected to the Colorado Bar Association’s Real Estate Section Council and he currently serves on the boards of the Colorado Historical Foundation and Historic Denver.

Alexa Hunter – Kilpatrick
Practice: patent
Alma mater: University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Hunter counsels foreign and domestic companies on patent strategies, prepares and prosecutes patent applications and manages complex domestic and international portfolios in the chemical, life sciences and medical and surgical device fields. Alexa provides invalidity, clearance and freedom-to-operate opinions and patent validity, infringement and right-to-practice counseling and is also experienced in coordinating patent prosecution abroad in foreign jurisdictions.

Andrea LaFrance – Kilpatrick
Practice: trademark
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
LaFrance focuses on global trademark portfolio management and handles a wide range of domestic and international clearance, prosecution and enforcement matters. Her practice extends to specialized areas such as social networking, video games, software and cloud services, space technology and cosmetics.

Brett Mellor – Kilpatrick
Practice: patent
Alma mater: University of Virginia School of Law
Mellor focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling in the fields of electronics and software. Mellor’s areas of expertise include analog and digital circuits, computer architecture, computer engineering, processor design, wireless communications systems, antennas, GPS receivers, signal and image processing, optics and optoelectronics, sensors, instrumentation, solar photovoltaic devices, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision and AR/VR/MR systems.

Leni Plimpton – Fortis Law Partners
Practice: employment law
Alma mater: University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Plimpton specializes in the practice areas of employment law, including litigation and complex commercial litigation. She frequently litigates cases in federal court and has particular experience with employment discrimination matters, multi-jurisdictional arbitrations, business disputes, breach of contract claims, theft of trade secrets and noncompete disputes, government contracting and civil fraud claims.

Ian Kuliasha – KO Law
Practice: corporate
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Kuliasha helps founders, investors and businesses at every stage of growth identify and reach their most critical milestones — whether that’s launching a startup, raising capital, closing a key commercial transaction or navigating and closing acquisitions and exits. His experience spans startup formations, private equity and venture financings, complex domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

Kenneth Chang – Holland & Knight
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Chang concentrates his practice on overseas IP issues, with a focus on Asia. He addresses areas such as cross-border transactions, IP licensing and disputes, monetization and overseas IP enforcement (particularly in China). His practice covers various industries, including biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device, semiconductor, consumer electronics, textiles and design services.

Ted Mayle – Holland & Knight
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: Georgetown University Law Center
Mayle’s practice focuses on patent infringement litigation and appeals, and administrative actions before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

James English – BCLP
Practice: energy
Alma mater: University of Illinois
English focuses his practice on companies in the international oil and gas, light natural gas, fuel, mining, chemicals and technology industries as they develop, buy and sell projects and related infrastructure globally.

Matthew Johnson – BCLP
Practice: corporate and finance transactions
Alma mater: University of Chicago
Johnson advises technology and life sciences companies on a wide array of corporate transactions, including venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and corporate governance matters.

Sarah Morgan – Vinson & Elkins
Practice: mergers and acquisitions 
Alma mater: University of Virginia School of Law
Morgan co-heads the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and capital markets practice group. She has an extensive corporate practice, advising on capital-raising transactions, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions.

Mike Joyce – Vinson & Elkins
Practice: energy
Alma mater: Santa Clara University School of Law
Joyce’s practice focuses on energy and infrastructure finance. He has represented clients in numerous cutting-edge transactions in the energy and infrastructure field, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy sectors such as solar, wind and storage.

Ramey Layne – Vinson & Elkins
Practice: capital markets
Alma mater: New York University School of Law
Layne has a particular focus on transactions relating to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies and publicly traded master limited partnerships. He represents both issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings.

Ethan Bell – Faegre Drinker
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: Washington University School of Law
Bell advises clients of all sizes on strategies to protect and defend their intellectual property. His technical knowledge spans several industries, including computer software, telecommunications, computer networking, content distribution, cloud computing, electronic circuits and mechanical inventions.

Michael Kaplan – WilmerHale
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: Duke University School of Law
Kaplan counsels clients on complex real estate projects and transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures and leasing matters. His clients include domestic and international real estate investment trusts, private investors and developers with a broad spectrum of asset classes, including life sciences, industrial, office, hospitality, student housing and senior housing.

Aubyn Krulish – Snell & Wilmer
Practice: mergers and acquisitions
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Krulish primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the firm, she was the office managing attorney of the Denver office for a national firm for several years.

Bill Ojile – Snell & Wilmer
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Nebraska Lincoln College of Law
With over 30 years of experience, Ojile has handled many cases dealing with issues in the higher education, telecommunications and insurance broker sectors. In his work, Ojile draws on his background leading the legal, regulatory, compliance, legislative and human resources functions for multiple companies. Ojile was previously a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP.

Marty Walsh – Snell & Wilmer
Practice: mergers and acquisitions
Alma mater: Saint Louis University School of Law
Walsh has transactional experience and focuses predominantly on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, technology and emerging companies and providing corporate counsel to ownership, boards and senior management.

Eric Sanderson – Michael Best
Practice: wealth planning
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Sanderson’s background is in legal, tax, trust and financial strategies for high-net-worth families. He’s also held leadership roles at one of the largest banking institutions in the U.S. 

Michele Washington – Quarles & Brady LLP
Practice: intellectual property
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Washington is an intellectual property attorney who prepares and prosecutes patent applications and assists clients with U.S. and international patent portfolio development. Washington has a technical background in the life sciences, and she assists clients with patent protection on technologies that include large molecule therapeutics, gene editing, drug delivery and immunology.

Benjamin Busboom – Womble Bond Dickinson
Practice: corporate transactions
Alma mater: Washburn University School of Law
Busboom advises companies and investors on environmental, energy and natural resources matters across the energy transition space. He structures and negotiates transactions and projects related to mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, CO2, biofuels, wireless telecommunications and contaminated or environmentally sensitive areas.

Frances Scioscia Staadt – Womble Bond Dickinson
Practice: business litigation
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Staadt represents individual and institutional clients in a wide range of commercial litigation involving contract disputes, business torts, antitrust, securities, real estate, construction, bankruptcy, insurance coverage and bad faith, trust disputes and other complex matters. She has considerable experience litigating before state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels, as well as representing broker-dealers and registered investment advisors.

Bob Choate – CP2
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Oklahoma College of Law
Choate’s practice focuses on real estate development and associated business transactions. Before joining CP2, Choate spent many years as corporate counsel for local governmental entities in northern Colorado and has extensive experience navigating the permitting processes necessary to acquire and protect vested development rights in most jurisdictions on the north Front Range.

Julie Trent – CP2
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: J. Reuben Clark Law School
Trent practices in all areas of general commercial litigation and employment law, assisting many types of businesses and financial institutions in a wide range of cases. She has experience in matters as diverse as overtime disputes under the Fair Labor Standards Act, trademark disputes under the Lanham Act, bankruptcy adversary proceedings and general contract disputes.

Amy Wegner Kho – CP2
Practice: Estate Planning / Agricultural Law
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Licensed in both Colorado and Idaho, Kho’s practice focuses on estate planning, probate and elder law, trust administration, fiduciary representation, business succession planning and agricultural law. Kho is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association, where she served on the Elder Law Section Executive Council and is a current member of the Trust & Estate section and Elder Law section

Lena Lucas – Woods Aitken
Practice: business services
Alma mater: University of Nebraska College of Law
Lucas is a member of the firm’s business services, construction law, financial institutions and real estate practice groups. She provides counsel on best practices for startup organization, business reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, corporate governance and succession planning.

Todd Jaworsky – Wilson Elser
Practice: insurance
Alma mater: California Western School of Law
Jaworsky focuses on insurance-related and bad-faith litigation and drafting policy provisions and endorsements. Admitted to practice in Colorado and California, Jaworsky has coverage analysis, claims management and insurance litigation experience in multiple jurisdictions.

Jane Young – Wilson Elser
Practice: insurance
Alma mater: University of Denver College of Law
Young has 25 years of experience representing insurers and third-party administrators in complex coverage and bad-faith disputes around the country. Her defense work involves insurance policies and first- and third-party coverages. She has argued in the Colorado appellate courts and before the 10th and 5th Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Allison Kostecka – Gibson Dunn
Practice: securities litigation
Alma mater: Duke University School of Law
Kostecka focuses her practice on securities litigation and complex civil litigation and has advised clients facing a broad range of commercial disputes in state and federal courts, as well as with regulatory agencies. She graduated from Duke University School of Law in 2010.

Lisa Bondy Dunn – Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell
Practice: construction litigation and insurance defense
Alma mater: Loyola Law School
Dunn focuses her practice on construction litigation and insurance defense. Recently named one of Law Week’s Barrister’s Best Construction Defects Lawyer for Defendants, Dunn has represented developers, contractors and subcontractors in all types of construction-related disputes for more than 20 years.

Ricky Nolen Jr. – Higgins, Hopkins, McLain & Roswell
Practice: construction law and complex civil litigation
Alma mater: University of Arkansas School of Law
Nolen specializes in construction law and complex civil litigation. While in law school, Nolen contributed to appellate briefs for various federal circuit courts, and he has attended the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Elizabeth Field – Kutak Rock
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Field is a skilled commercial litigator with significant experience in real estate and eminent domain matters. A central focus of Field’s practice is eminent domain litigation, where she represents both landowners and condemning authorities in complex condemnation issues.

Aren Sharifi – Kutak Rock
Practice: corporate governance
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Sharifi focuses his practice on corporate matters, including M&A and commercial real estate. With respect to his corporate practice, he guides clients through opportunities and obstacles their company may face, including entity formation, corporate governance, contract review and mergers and acquisitions. 

Daniel Graham – Perkins Coie
Practice: employment litigation
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Graham focuses his practice in business and employment litigation, helping clients resolve disputes and manage litigation risks. He is actively involved in the legal community, serving on committees for the U.S. District Court and the Colorado Supreme Court, and he maintains a pro bono practice in immigration and family law.

Blake Schell – Perkins Coie
Practice: mergers and acquisitions
Alma mater: Boston University School of Law
Schell advises clients on capital raising, governance, regulatory matters and general corporate issues. Before his legal career, he served as deputy chief of staff for Ambassador Demetrios Marantis at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and received a personal commendation from former President Barack Obama for his contributions to the administration.

Andrew Gehring – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Practice: commercial litigation/class actions
Alma mater: New York University School of Law
Gehring represents national and multinational clients in bet-the-company cases and helps individuals navigate complex commercial, contractual and other business disputes. He has represented more than 100 clients in jurisdictions across the U.S.

Will Hauptman – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Practice: professional liability/commercial litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Hauptman defends lawyers and law firms in complex legal professional liability matters and represents other sophisticated clients in commercial litigation. He has won cases at trial and on appeal.

Kevin Homiak – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Practice: commercial litigation/professional liability/appellate
Alma mater: Georgetown University Law Center
Homiak represents sophisticated clients nationwide in complex commercial litigation and professional liability defense, and he co-chairs the firm’s pro bono committee. He has won multiple jury verdicts as lead trial counsel and also handles high-stakes appeals.

Shawn Neal – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Practice: healthcare professional liability
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Neal defends healthcare clients in high-stakes medical malpractice cases. She specializes in representing hospitals and healthcare professionals in high-exposure pediatric cases, including birth injury matters, in challenging jurisdictions.

Jennie Oxley – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
Practice: commercial litigation/professional liability
Alma mater: Stanford Law School
Oxley is a former assistant U.S. attorney who represents clients facing complex commercial and professional liability claims. She has significant trial and courtroom experience.

Lacey Croy – Holland & Knight
Practice: mergers and acquisitions
Alma mater: University of Florida Levin College of Law
Croy advises clients on a wide range of transactional and regulatory issues with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. She represents clients from varying industries, including the transportation and energy industries. In addition, she advises companies on formation, capital raising and operational matters.

Kendall Kadish – Holland & Knight
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: The Ohio State University College of Law
Kadish focuses his practice on commercial real estate development and real estate finance matters. He represents real estate developers in connection with the acquisition, sale, financing, leasing, construction and development of real estate, including multifamily, office, retail, industrial, healthcare facilities, hospitality and mixed-use properties.

Joseph Lambert – Hogan Lovells
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: University of Wyoming College of Law
A seasoned litigator with nearly 20 trials under his belt as either a first- or second-chair attorney, Lambert has successfully represented a range of clients — primarily involving the construction and design industries — including owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, both within Colorado and across the U.S.

John Peckler – Spencer Fane
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: Lewis & Clark Law School
Peckler helps clients navigate complex development projects and real estate transactions, working with individuals, businesses and developers on all aspects of land use and real estate law. Relying on his background in finance and experience with Colorado water law, he brings a unique perspective as a land use counsel.

Tom Rodriguez – Lathrop GPM
Practice: private client services
Alma mater: Emory University School of Law
Rodriguez brings over 20 years of experience to the firm’s private client services practice group. He focuses his practice on probate litigation, including contested guardianships and conservatorships, fiduciary representation and other will and trust litigation. 

Amy Erickson – Lathrop GPM
Practice: litigation and dispute resolution
Alma mater: University of Minnesota Law School
Erickson is a civil litigator focusing on probate, trust, guardianship and fiduciary litigation matters. She helps clients resolve disputes over the administration of trusts or estates, will and trust contests and contested matters of guardianship or conservatorship.

Dan Couch – Hall Estill
Practice: litigation and business
Alma mater: University of Oklahoma College of Law
A litigation and business attorney, Couch assists businesses and families with a variety of legal needs, including litigation, construction, real estate, business services, probate and trusts and homeowners’ association matters. He works out of both the Denver and Oklahoma City offices.

Kirk McGill – Hall Estill
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Based in the Denver office but practicing throughout the country, McGill assists clients routinely with federal and state appeals, litigation, constitutional law and civil rights defense, tax, estates and trusts, business law, administrative law and regulatory compliance, contracts, commercial transactions and cybersecurity.

Courtney Bartkus – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
A member of the firm’s litigation department, Bartkus helps clients navigate consumer finance and other highly regulated industries. She handles financial compliance and litigation and is also well-versed in regulatory enforcement actions and consumer litigation. Bartkus represents banks, lenders, servicers and debt collectors, among others.

Christopher Hand – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: corporate and business
Alma mater: Washington University School of Law
A member of the firm’s corporate and business department, Hand assists his clients with complex financing transactions and other corporate matters. In his finance practice, Hand represents both lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured financing arrangements, including acquisition financings, asset-based revolving credit facilities, project financings and other middle-market credit facilities. 

Claire Havelda – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Colorado School of Law
A member of the firm’s real estate department, Havelda draws on her experience in municipal planning and development in northern Colorado to assist with the interpretation and application of land use codes, planning and zoning approvals, housing and transportation development and historic preservation concerns. 

Gregory Janssen – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: corporate and business
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
A member of the firm’s corporate and business department, Janssen assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, tax aspects of real estate transactions, partnership and corporation formation and taxation, tax controversies, tax-exempt organizations, tax lobbying and other tax planning and advice for business entities and individuals.

James Leighton – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: corporate and business
Alma mater: University of Texas School of Law
A member of the firm’s corporate and business department, Leighton represents private equity sponsors, entrepreneurs and strategic companies in both buy-side and sell-side engagements. His work includes leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, minority equity investments and general corporate matters. 

Andi Stader – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: Vanderbilt University Law School
A member of the firm’s real estate department, Stader focuses on development projects ranging from acquisitions to entitlements to development of a site to the sale of the asset. She has particular expertise with multifamily, industrial, mixed-use, transit-oriented and master-planned projects.

Larry Myers – Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP
Practice: construction
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Myers represents construction clients in state and federal courts at all levels and in arbitration. He litigates breach of contract, construction defect, delay, fraud, indemnity, lost productivity and scheduling claims. Myers also handles federal bid protests, certified claims and appeals and equitable adjustments pursuant to the Contract Disputes Act, False Claims Act defense and Miller Act bond claims.

Kim Koehler – Wilson Elser
Practice: complex tort
Alma mater: Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Koehler defends general liability claims, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims and professional liability claims that include legal malpractice, licensed clinical social workers and other professionals. She also handles easement and other real property disputes, product liability and construction defect. 

Scott Sweeney – Wilson Elser
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: University of Colorado Law School
Sweeney serves on the firm’s national trial team and maintains a diverse litigation practice that includes employment litigation, professional liability, commercial litigation, cybersecurity, insurance defense and complex multiparty litigation. He is a member of the employment and labor practice.

Adrian Castro – Fairfield & Woods
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: Hofstra University School of Law
Castro represents individuals and businesses in complex civil disputes and employment matters across a range of industries, including auto dealerships, broker dealers, construction, finance, oil and gas, software, startups and marijuana dispensaries and grow operations.

Gennaro DeSantis – Fairfield & Woods
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
DeSantis works with his clients to help them navigate real estate and development transactions. His clients range from one of the fastest growing senior housing developers and operators in the country to individuals developing hotels, self-storage facilities, retail developments and commercial properties to individuals investing in commercial real estate.

Josh Berry – Fairfield & Woods
Practice: litigation
Alma mater: University of Kansas School of Law
Berry is a civil litigator with a focus on contract disputes, fraud, construction defect claims, employment and professional liability matters and insurance coverage issues.

Katie Moisan – Fairfield & Woods
Practice: real estate
Alma mater: University of Oklahoma College of Law
Moisan advises clients in the real estate and natural resources sectors, focusing on commercial property acquisitions and land development. She also advises on mineral title reviews, lease negotiations and other transactional services for oil, gas and renewable energy projects.

Chris Spurr – Fairfield & Woods
Practice: corporate
Alma mater: The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Castro is a business, privacy and real estate attorney. He frequently handles mergers and acquisitions with complex regulatory, credentialing and contingent payment issues, often including private equity investments in healthcare and other regulated industries.

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