Jess Brovsky-Eaker

1 month ago | lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker

Firms reported 12 big deals to Law Week in our Q1 2025 survey. The number of deals reported dipped slightly lower than reported for the last quarter, but showed a modest if tentative start to the year in comparison to 2024. J.P. Morgan estimates that U.S. economic growth has slowed in the first quarter with increasing uncertainty in sensitive markets. Morgan Stanley predicts market gains in 2025 but cautions they may be more muted than the past two years.

1 month ago | lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker

More than 210 bills have been signed since the 2025 session started in January. In a session pockmarked with budget shortfalls and protests, Colorado lawmakers still managed to pass a few important bills this year. One bill reduces the state-paid portion of assistant district attorney salaries at each judicial district from 50% to 25%. Another bill passed this session seeks to address the delays in DNA evidence and sexual assault kit testing.

1 month ago | lawweekcolorado.com | Jess Brovsky-Eaker

Jack Hanley wasn’t an attorney, but that hardly mattered in the grand scheme of things. Those who knew him said he was often mistaken to be an attorney by other attorneys — such was the magnitude of his particular gift as a law firm administrator. He knew what made attorneys tick and deeply resonated with and understood the joy of the practice of law. Hanley died on March 27 at the age of 81.

1 month 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.

Mar 10, 2025 | 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.