Jess Brovsky-Eaker

2 weeks ago | lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker

Earlier this year, Law Week Colorado partnered with Gibson Arnold & Associates and the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel to collect and analyze information from more than 100 local in-house attorneys, including job satisfaction, bonuses, salary trends and representative industries. The survey ran from January to March 2025. A Note on DemographicsOut of 101 attorneys who took our survey, 49% identified as female and 46% as male while 5% declined to identify.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

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.