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1 month ago | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
Natalie Hausknecht is no stranger to high-profile and high-stakes legal matters. But even before she became an attorney, she was familiar with the hot seat. Before she attended law school, Hausknecht worked as a senior special advisor to President Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq for almost a decade. While she was there, she told Law Week she worked on a host of key international development projects during and after the war.
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1 month ago | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
Last year, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell partner Fred Yarger led a legal team for the Denver International Airport to victory on decades of noise complaints following a long string of defeats, after presenting arguments to the court in late 2023. “The key in those situations is to have a great working relationship with the existing legal team,” Yarger told Law Week via email.
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1 month ago | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Richard Gabriel on Feb. 26 welcomed a room of attorneys and judges to the Colorado Judicial Institute’s Straight Talk with Judges CLE event. A crowded room of attorneys met for a networking hour before the program started at Holland & Hart’s Denver office.
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2 months ago | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
In November 2021, Brooky Parks, the teen librarian at the Erie Community Library, walked into a district library board meeting to advocate for a library closure on Martin Luther King Day. She led programming for youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth at the library. But after that board meeting, things began to rapidly deteriorate as she began working under a new supervisor. Within roughly a month, she was terminated from her position at the library.
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2 months ago | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
Last month, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Animal Activist Legal Defense Project announced it helped get a special prosecutor appointed in Dane County, Wisconsin, to investigate and potentially prosecute criminal animal cruelty at Ridglan Farms. The clinic noted in its announcement that Ridglan is one of the last two remaining large breeders of dogs for animal experimentation in the country.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
The Juvenile Justice Symposium returned this week for Colorado college, high school and middle school students and their families. The program teaches kids and families about criminal and juvenile law and school discipline. Program founder and Recht Kornfeld Shareholder Lara Marks Baker discussed criminal issues that seem to plague youth in Colorado, like underage drinking, drinking and driving, sex offenses and drug offenses.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
The Colorado Judicial Institute held its annual gala Nov. 7, honoring Weld County Magistrate Randall Lococo, Jefferson County Judge Verna Carpenter and 16th Judicial District Chief Judge Mark MacDonnell. A welcome speech was given by newly appointed Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Monica Márquez, and the evening’s master of ceremony was Colorado Public Radio’s Chandra Thomas Witfield.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
On Oct. 16, the Association of Corporate Counsel Colorado and Shook, Hardy & Bacon hosted a CLE event at the Denver Art Museum focused on the ins and outs of art law for corporate counsel.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
The Colorado Constitution grants the governor exclusive authority to grant clemency. Clemency can be given in Colorado in one of two ways: commutation or a pardon. Right now, the process to apply for clemency can be challenging, especially for pro se pardon applicants. Pro se parties, or those who don’t have an attorney to represent them, are steadily becoming a more significant share of individuals in the criminal justice system today.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker
The Colorado Lawyers Committee is a nonpartisan group of more than 70 Colorado law firms dedicated to increasing opportunities for disadvantaged communities through pro bono legal work. Each year, the organization hosts a luncheon and honors local attorneys, judges and law firms with awards that demonstrate their dedication to the community and to pro bono service. In a preview article last week, Law Week Colorado covered the nominees for Individual of the Year and Law Firm of the Year.
