Mark Bell

Divergence, stabilization shaping Colorado’s CRE market

Colorado’s commercial real estate market is entering a period of limited stability, which is reshaping development strategy, capital deployment and the legal work surrounding...
Melissa Sullivan

2026 Top Women awardee Melissa Sullivan, partner, Keating Wagner Polidori Free P.C.

Melissa Sullivan didn’t set out to become a lawyer. As she tells it, law found her. Now a partner at Keating Wagner Polidori Free P.C.,...
Danielle Bettencourt

2026 Top Women awardee Danielle Bettencourt, director, Fairfield & Woods P.C.

Danielle Bettencourt spent her childhood in Montana surrounded by the industries that would inform her legal career: oil and gas, ranching and agriculture. Now, as...
Linda Knight

2026 Top Women awardee Linda Knight, partner, Spencer Fane LLP

Long before she stepped into a courtroom as a trial lawyer, Linda Knight was fascinated by the legal world. Family road trips often included stops...
Brittany Kauffman

2026 Top Women awardee Brittany Kauffman, CEO, IAALS

As CEO of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, Brittany Kauffman is living out her...
Melissa Romero

2026 Top Women awardee Melissa Romero, partner, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP

Melissa Romero connected the variety, challenge and teamwork integral to her law practice with a beloved children’s book. She said, “We grind through issues...
Top Women

2026 Top Women standout candidates

Law Week Colorado received many deserving nominees for our 2026 Top Women award, including these standout candidates: Selina Baschiera, attorney, VF Law Camille Bacon-Schulte,...
Elizabeth Manno

Women lawyers celebrate gains, despite underrepresentation

While women have entered law in numbers nearly matching men for more than a decade, equal representation in law firms drops as seniority increases....
Eliz Espinoza

LAW SCHOOL… Yes We Can selects Eliz Espinoza to lead program

Taft Law Firm domestic relations attorney Eliz Espinoza has been elected president of LAW SCHOOL…Yes We Can, a Colorado-based pipeline program focused on expanding...
Kate Schaffzin

Study explores challenges of women attorneys in higher education

A new study from the Association of American Law Schools presents one of the clearest pictures yet of the professional lives of women attorneys...