Over the past year, more than 50 partners were added to local firms. Newly promoted attorneys practice in a wide range of areas from healthcare, real estate and civil litigation to intellectual property, securities and financial services. Congratulations to all the new partners this year!
Jared Brandyberry – BakerHostetler
Practice: patent litigation, commercial litigation, trademark and copyright and noncompete and trade secrets
Alma Mater: University of Cincinnati
Brandyberry is a litigator who assists clients with commercial and intellectual property disputes involving complex technology. His cases typically involve contractual, patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets claims. He has represented clients in 22 different U.S. district courts, International Trade Commission investigations, federal circuit appeals and multidistrict litigation. Brandyberry also assists clients with IP procurement and licensing activities and is a licensed patent attorney.
James Judd – BakerHostetler
Practice: estate and tax planning
Alma Mater: Georgetown University Law Center; Creighton University School of Law
Judd focuses his practice on estate planning and tax planning for high net worth individuals and business entities. Judd manages various state and federal tax controversies and advises corporations, LLCs, partnerships and nonprofit organizations on how to operate in the most tax-efficient manner.
Julian Ellis – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: government relations and political & regulatory law
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Practicing in the firm’s litigation department, Ellis focuses on appellate and political matters, constitutional litigation and strategic counseling. He has served as lead counsel in high stakes cases at both the trial and appellate levels, and regularly represents clients litigating issues of first impression in federal and state courts. As part of his appellate work, Ellis also has a robust amicus practice representing clients in cases of national importance, including filing six amicus briefs in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court during the last two terms.
Nick Larson – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: construction and real estate
Alma Mater: Gonzaga University School of Law
Practicing in the firm’s real estate department, Larson focuses on ground-up development and centers his transactional real estate practice on the interplay between private development and public construction/works contracts. He represents developers, equity investors and institutional lenders in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures. His work also includes urban infill, planned community and condominium development, golf courses and ski resorts, manufactured housing portfolio sales and negotiation of construction and design contracts, including AIA and DBIA contracts.
David Meschke – Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
Practice: antitrust and competition, commercial litigation and securities litigation
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Meschke practices in the firm’s litigation department. His work encompasses high-stakes litigation, including securities law, class actions, complex antitrust cases and breach of contract matters. Meschke’s practice includes all stages of litigation in both federal and state courts. He also has significant experience with appellate briefing covering a wide variety of areas and has argued before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steven Visioli – Broxterman Alicks McFarlane
Practice: family law
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Visioli joined BAM in 2016 and focuses his practice on family law. He has worked on and led a broad variety of family law cases, including those involving high asset divorces, prenuptial and marital agreements, piercing (and reverse-piercing) the corporate veil, high conflict custody cases, parenting time enforcement, dependency and neglect, international and multi-state kidnapping.
Dean Batchelder – Burg Simpson
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma Mater: University of Michigan Law School
Batchelder focuses his practice on commercial litigation and is admitted to practice before the Colorado and Wyoming Supreme Courts, as well as several federal courts. Prior to joining Burg Simpson, Batchelder worked with a number of well-respected Denver law firms. Batchelder served as law clerk for Judge A. Mead of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Nelson Boyle – Burg Simpson
Practice: appeals and commercial litigation
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Boyle’s civil litigation practice focuses on appeals, business, insurance bad faith and personal injury litigation. He joined Burg Simpson in 2013 after several years running his own firm. Boyle has practiced in Colorado trial courts, the Colorado Court of Appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for Colorado, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jessica Breuer – Burg Simpson
Practice: personal injury
Alma Mater: The University of Kansas College of Law
Breuer is a shareholder in Burg Simpson’s personal injury litigation department. Breuer focuses her practice in the areas of personal injury, employment law, wage and hour and appeals. She is currently admitted to practice in Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Marc Johnson – Burg Simpson
Practice: medical malpractice
Alma Mater: University of San Diego School of Law
Johnson focuses his practice exclusively on medical malpractice litigation. He has handled a wide range of cases including birth injuries, anesthesia injuries, cancer misdiagnosis, stroke misdiagnosis, heart attack misdiagnosis and prenatal misdiagnosis. Prior to joining Burg Simpson, Johnson spent six years at a highly respected New Jersey law firm focusing exclusively on medical negligence claims.
Penny Manship – Burg Simpson
Practice: construction defect
Alma Mater: University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
Manship’s career is devoted to representing plaintiffs in construction defect and class action cases. She has successfully represented thousands of homeowners and many homeowners associations in construction defect claims. Manship has resolved several class action cases involving product defects and consumer fraud claims.
Katy Raffensperger – Crowell & Moring
Practice: corporate, health care and joint ventures and strategic alliances
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Raffensperger’s practice focuses, in particular, on health care industry deals. She is a partner and a member of the corporate and health care groups. Raffensperger handles a range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, going-private transactions, leveraged buy-outs, tender offers, reorganizations, joint ventures and general corporate and complex commercial matters.
Meshach Rhoades – Crowell & Moring
Practice: intellectual property, business torts, real estate and regulatory litigation
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law at Boulder
Rhoades is the managing partner of the Denver office and a member of the firm’s litigation practice group. She advises senior management in all facets of complex commercial and regulatory litigation. Rhoades has litigated a variety of cases regarding contracts, intellectual property, business torts, real estate, false advertising and defense of government enforcement proceedings, class actions and products liability, finance and banking litigation and labor and employment in state and federal courts nationwide.
Kyler Burgi – Davis Graham & Stubbs
Practice: bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, commercial litigation and toxic tort litigation
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Burgi specializes in bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, complex commercial litigation and toxic tort litigation. He helps clients navigate complex insolvency and creditors’ rights issues across several industries, including oil and gas, mining, real estate, retail, tech and recreation. Burgi has been named among Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch in the areas of commercial litigation for 2021 and 2022 and bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law for 2022. He is admitted to practice in Colorado, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Edward Shaoul – Davis Graham & Stubbs
Practice: finance and acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and emerging companies and venture capital
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Shaoul focuses his practice on securities offerings and compliance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. He works with clients across a range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, financial services, health care, real estate and technology. With more than 10 years of investment banking and finance experience, including at Allen & Company and Goldman Sachs in New York, he advises clients from both legal and capital markets perspectives. Shaoul is admitted to practice law in Colorado.
Emily Wasserman – Davis Graham & Stubbs
Practice: complex commercial litigation and intellectual property
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Wasserman focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property disputes, and counseling clients regarding their intellectual property rights. She was named among Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch in the area of commercial litigation for 2021 and 2022 and intellectual property law for 2022 and is a member of the 2021 General Counsel Mentor Program. Wasserman currently serves on the Advisory Board for Silicon Flatirons, a center for students, entrepreneurs, policymakers and professionals whose mission is to elevate the debate surrounding technology policy issues. Prior to joining DGS, Wasserman served as a law clerk to Judge Brian Boatright, the current chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
John McHugh – Fennemore
Practice: business litigation
Alma Mater: New York University School of Law
McHugh joined Fennemore in 2021 with the addition of the Reilly LLP litigation team to the firm’s roster. He assumes the role of partner from Bruce Dahl who has led the Fennemore Denver office since its inception and will now work on the firm’s professional affairs committee in addition to his IP practice. McHugh has a wide civil practice that includes experience in cases in the financial services, insurance and energy industries and LGBT rights.
Andrew Lavin – Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Practice: insurance and employment law
Alma Mater: The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Lavin is a member of the insurance and employment practice groups. He defends insurers in bad faith and class action matters and provides guidance concerning complex coverage disputes. He also represents employers in litigation and counsels employers in ways to proactively limit potential litigation.
Job Seese – Hall Estill
Practice: oil and gas, trade secret and commercial disputes
Alma Mater: Washington & Lee University School of Law
Seese represents clients in commercial disputes ranging from oil and gas and cannabis to trade secret and general contractual matters. Before entering private practice, Seese clerked for Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr.
Diane Hernandez – Hall Estill
Practice: employment-based immigration and employment law
Alma Mater: University of Tulsa College of Law
Hernandez’s practice is concentrated in employment-based immigration, as well as labor and employment law. She was awarded the Oklahoma Bar Association Outstanding Law Student Award for 2013 and the ALI CLE Scholarship and Leadership Award for 2014.
Joel Johnston – Hall Estill
Practice: environmental, regulatory and corporate/transactional law
Alma Mater: University of Tulsa College of Law
Johnston practices environmental, regulatory and corporate/transactional law across a variety of industries. He has experience with both the technical and commercial aspects of large infrastructure projects but is also well versed in assisting small business owners with routine compliance matters.
Scott Campbell – Hogan Lovells
Practice: real estate
Alma Mater: Columbia Law School
Campbell advises clients on structuring and drafting solutions. He routinely represents clients in the drafting and negotiation of mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity financing documents (including intercreditor agreements and related syndication documents), purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases and various other property-level contracts.
Jeff George – Hogan Lovells
Practice: infrastructure, energy, resources, and projects real estate intellectual property
Alma Mater: The George Washington University Law School
George, who replaces partner John Cook, joined the firm in 1995, and has more than 30 years of trial experience in litigation in state and federal courts and before judicial arbiters across the U.S., with a significant emphasis on construction and engineering matters. He was part of the original group of partners who opened the Colorado Springs office more than 25 years ago.
Desta Asfaw – Holland & Hart
Practice: tax and estate planning
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
Asfaw develops sophisticated estate, wealth transfer, wealth preservation and strategic tax planning solutions for high-net-worth individuals, families and closely-held businesses. She specializes in complex asset structures involving a variety of wealth transfer, charitable and business succession planning strategies.
Amos Barclay – Holland & Hart
Practice: mergers and acquisitions; venture capital
Alma Mater: University of North Carolina
Barclay advises companies of all sizes, from small start-ups and venture-backed growth stage companies to Fortune 500 public companies. He provides strategic counsel on mergers, acquisitions, tender offers and other strategic exit opportunities. Barclay also assists clients with venture capital financing and strategic growth, as well as corporate structure and governance.
Kylie Crandall – Holland & Hart
Practice: real estate, water law and related project development
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
Crandall was appointed administrative partner of the firm’s Boulder office. She replaces Larry Tronco, who served in this role for two years. Crandall’s practice focuses on real estate, water and related project development, including purchases, sales, development, leasing and property management and operation.
Finity Jernigan – Holland & Hart
Practice: food, beverage and consumer products
Alma Mater: University of Texas School of Law
Jernigan advises emerging growth companies and venture capital and private equity funds in the consumer products industry, including food, beverage, skincare, cosmetics and other natural products. She helps companies access liquidity at crucial stages of growth and advises funds on strategic investments and acquisitions.
Shaun Kennedy – Holland & Hart
Practice: government contracts
Alma Mater: American University, Washington College of Law
Kennedy counsels clients navigating the complex legal framework of federal and state government contracts matters. He represents clients on high-stakes bid protests and claims litigation, internal investigations and provides general counseling on all facets of contract claims and contract administration. Kennedy leads the firm’s aerospace and defense industry group.
Chelsea May – Holland & Hart
Practice: tax and estate planning
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
May represents high net worth individuals and families with their estate, wealth transfer, philanthropic and business succession planning needs. She specializes in designing multi-generational estate and succession plans that minimize future conflict, optimize administrative ease and promote tax efficiency. May is a former CPA and advises on various tax and legal matters.
Nathan Mutter – Holland & Hart
Practice: patent prosecution, counseling and opinions
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
Mutter focuses on patent prosecution and counseling for sophisticated clients with international IP portfolios spanning wireless communications, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and medical device technologies. Advising on a range of IP due diligence and clearance projects, he advises clients on IP issues related to acquisitions, product development and launch and defensive strategies.
Jessica Smith – Holland & Hart
Practice: commercial litigation
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
Smith leads the firm’s religious institutions and First Amendment practice, handling disputes involving defamation, the free exercise and establishment clauses and other federal and state constitutional doctrines. She also represents businesses in court, mediation and arbitration proceedings on issues of breach of contract, fraud, intellectual property and other complex commercial disputes.
Paul Swanson – Holland & Hart
Practice: commercial litigation; antitrust and trade regulation
Alma Mater: Cornell Law School
Swanson’s commercial litigation practice focuses on complex contract and antitrust disputes. With a client base in technology and logistics, he manages state and federal lawsuits and arbitrations for Fortune 500 companies and regional clients. Swanson engages in all stages of dispute resolution, from pre-litigation assessment and negotiation, to trial and appeal.
Jill Van Noord – Holland & Hart
Practice: environmental and natural resources
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
Van Noord counsels clients on a range of environmental compliance, permitting and enforcement matters at the local, state and federal level, with a specialty in air quality. She helps clients navigate environmental compliance audits and the resulting disclosure and enforcement. She also supports project due diligence and the transfer of contaminated properties.
Meghan Winokur – Holland & Hart
Practice: water rights, real estate development and land use planning
Alma Mater: University of Colorado School of Law
A partner in the firm’s Aspen office, Winokur was appointed administrative partner, succeeding Mark Hamilton, who has served in this role since 2013. Winokur has experience in water rights, real estate development and land use planning. She works with water service providers, municipalities, ski areas, agricultural producers, ranchers, real estate developers and private landowners on all aspects of water supply planning, real estate transactions, development activities and land use planning. Winokur also represents clients in water court litigation and water-related administrative proceedings.
J.T. Bergstrom – Kilpatrick Townsend
Practice: patent prosecution, patent litigation support and intellectual property licensing
Alma Mater: Stanford Law School
Bergstrom is a member of the firm’s electronic engineering and software Team. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution, patent litigation support, IP licensing and IP portfolio strategy and management in the electronics, energy and software fields.
John Bales – Kutak Rock
Practice: securities, nonprofit finance, government services, government project finance and housing
Alma Mater: University of Notre Dame Law School
Bales serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, lender’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel for transactions involving the issuance of a variety of debt instruments, including affordable housing, single family housing, higher education, charter schools, 501(c)(3)s and private activity bond infrastructure projects.
Anne Bensard – Kutak Rock
Practice: governmental finance and development and improvement districts
Alma Mater: University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law
Bensard focuses her practice on municipal finance transactions where she serves as bond, disclosure and underwriter’s counsel for tax-exempt municipal financings. She works with different issuers in transactions, consisting of general obligation bond issuances, lease purchases, direct loans to governmental entities, credit-enhanced securities and revenue-backed financings secured by sales taxes, property taxes, tax increment, system revenues, intergovernmental revenue-sharing arrangements and public improvement fees.
Judd Larson – Kutak Rock
Practice: tax; business, corporate and securities; finance
Alma Mater: Pepperdine University School of Law; University of Cambridge, Hughes Hall College
Larson focuses his practice on complex financial transactions in the representation of banks, funds, investors, lenders and projects in new markets tax credit for commercial entities, investment tax credits for solar, historic tax credits and opportunity zone transactions, as well assists public and private companies, mutual funds and investment trusts with finance, offerings, regulatory and tax matters.
Heather McKee – Kutak Rock
Practice: real estate and general corporate transactions
Alma Mater: University of Nebraska College of Law
McKee concentrates her practice on real estate and general corporate transactions. She represents clients in connection with a variety of commercial transactions throughout the U.S., including the acquisition, development, construction and disposition of residential, commercial office, multi-family housing, shopping centers, hotels, warehouse and industrial properties.
Lisa Saccomano – Kutak Rock
Practice: general litigation
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Saccomano advises clients in high-stakes commercial disputes. A former prosecutor, her practice involves general litigation matters with a particular interest in helping clients address the emerging challenges businesses face in the 21st century ethically while protecting their assets and reputation.
Dietrich Hoefner – Lewis Roca
Practice: regulatory and government
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Hoefner is a member in the firm’s regulatory and government practice group and focuses on complex regulatory matters for a wide range of clients across numerous industries including energy, utilities, natural resources and alcoholic beverages. He is also a member of the firm’s renewable energy decommissioning industry team, focusing on strategies to address and anticipate changing regulations affecting end-of-life issues for renewable energy facilities. He was recognized in Ones to Watch in the area of energy and natural resources law by Best Lawyers in 2021 and 2022.
Angela Vichick – Lewis Roca
Practice: business and real estate
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Vichick, a member of the firm’s litigation practice group, represents individual and institutional clients in complex litigation. Vichick’s practice focuses on business and real estate matters, including disputes involving contract, civil theft, derivative, fiduciary, fraud, fraudulent/preferential transfer, interpleader, probate, receivership, tort and quiet title claims. Her advocacy experience includes dispositive motions practice, evidentiary hearings, settlement and arbitration proceedings, trials and post-trial proceedings and appellate proceedings before the Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steve Baumann – Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Practice: employment and labor law
Alma Mater: University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Baumann counsels employers and litigates complex issues involving the protection of intellectual property, enforcement of restrictive covenants and other unfair competition. Baumann also maintains a traditional labor practice, assisting employers facing union organizing activity or managing union-represented workforces.
Jessica Marinelli – Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Practice: employment law and discrimination and harassment
Alma Mater: Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law
Marinelli advises employers on workplace issues including hiring, performance management, investigations, accommodations and paid sick leave, training and separation of employment. She works with publicly traded and privately held clients of all sizes, nationwide, in a vast array of industries including healthcare, Fintech, property management, manufacturing, hospitality, retail and food and beverage.
Robert Sykes – Merchant & Gould
Practice: mechanical, electrical and software, trademark and licensing
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Sykes is an intellectual property attorney who practices in the mechanical, electrical, aerospace, software and telecommunication spaces. Prior to joining Merchant & Gould, Sykes worked as a structural design engineer in commercial and residential construction in the Denver area. He later gained more experience at a private practice firm where he focused on the preparation and prosecution of patents in the areas of aircraft engines, power generation, oil and gas, additive manufacturing, financial transaction software, corrugated containers, solar energy, vending machines and equine accessories.
Caleena Braig – Moye White LLP
Practice: commercial litigation, construction, employment, litigation and professional liability
Alma Mater: Baylor University Law School
As a member of the litigation team, Braig represents clients in a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including commercial litigation, labor and employment, construction defect, professional liability and FELA claims. She has experience in negligence and strict liability claims, property damage, wrongful termination claims and cases involving breach of contract.
Amy DeColibus – Moye White LLP
Practice: development, multifamily, real estate, title and survey and zoning
Alma Mater: Ohio Northern University
DeColibus joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s real estate section. She has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisition, disposition, leasing, development and construction in varied real estate types, including healthcare, retail, industrial and office. DeColibus helps clients navigate existing real estate processes and collaborates with clients to develop processes around real estate development and sale-leaseback programs.
Georginne Dudash – Moye White LLP
Practice: development, leasing and real estate
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Dudash counsels businesses and individuals through various aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing. She has represented clients with commercial, residential and mixed-use development projects, including multisite and multistate transactions.
Arthur Griffin – Moye White LLP
Practice: commercial real estate leasing, development, finance and lending, land use and real estate
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Griffin represents commercial real estate clients with acquisitions and dispositions, development, lending and land use matters, with extensive experience in each of the retail, industrial, office and hospitality industries. In addition, Griffin advises alcohol manufacturers, distributors and retailers, which has included major casinos and nightclub operators, regarding federal and state regulatory alcohol laws and liquor licensing matters.
Jessica Hunter – Moye White LLP
Practice: food and beverage, intellectual property, trademarks and trade secrets
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
As a member of the firm’s Business & Corporate Section, Hunter counsels clients on commercial transactional matters, intellectual property protection and portfolio management, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and general business law guidance. As part of her practice, Hunter also focuses efforts on the alcoholic beverage industry, including working with brewing, distilling, restaurant and retail clients.
Brendan Leanos – Moye White LLP
Practice: financial services, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and securities and capital markets
Alma Mater: Fordham University
Leanos represents financial institutions and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in debt and equity investments. He frequently works with banks and private lenders in a broad range of financing transactions, including commercial and industrial loans, real estate and construction loans, aircraft loans and leveraged loans. Leanos’ practice also includes advising companies on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Nikki Roberts – Moye White LLP
Practice: commercial real estate leasing and real estate
Alma Mater: University of South Dakota School of Law
Roberts’ practice focuses on real estate with an emphasis on commercial leasing. She handles landlord and tenant representation for commercial leases, including drafting, reviewing and negotiation, with an emphasis on retail tenant leasing and landlord leasing projects for office, retail and industrial projects.
Blake Gansborg – Nelson Mullins
Practice: commercial litigation and business torts, construction, franchise and distribution – litigation, motor vehicle manufacturers and distributors and oil and gas
Alma Mater: University of Michigan Law School
Gansborg’s legal practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state court, federal court, administrative forums, and arbitration proceedings. He also concentrates on litigating franchise disputes before state administrative agencies. Gansborg serves clients across a broad range of industries, including automotive manufacturers, energy clients and financial institutions.
Allison Altaras – Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC
Practice: land use and real estate
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Altaras represents landowners, developers and business clients of all sizes in urban, infill and raw land development matters, including purchase and sale transactions and land use and development approvals. Her land use work spans through annexation, exactions analysis, zoning and rezoning, subdivision, site planning, development agreements, and infrastructure design and financing mechanisms. Altaras is a member of both the real estate and land use practice groups.
Cassandra Foster – Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC
Practice: real estate finance
Alma Mater: University of North Carolina School of Law
Foster’s practice focuses on real estate finance, representing borrowers and lenders in connection with multifamily, office, industrial, retail and hospitality assets. Her expertise includes construction financing, note purchases, syndicated facilities, mezzanine financing and real estate aspects of corporate acquisitions. She has broad experience with real estate acquisitions and dispositions of both raw and developed property. Foster is a member of the firm’s bankruptcy and troubled loans, real estate and real estate finance practice groups.
David Mika – Polsinelli
Practice: electrical engineering and computer science, patent prosecution, intellectual property and mechanical engineering
Alma Mater: University of Houston Law Center
Mika works with various clients from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies and across multiple industries. His broad legal background includes patent prosecution and litigation. Mika’s practice includes electrical engineering and computer science, patent prosecution, intellectual property and mechanical engineering.
Ryan Thurber – Polsinelli
Practice: health care operations, digital health and COVID-19 resources
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Thurber’s practice focuses on health care operations, digital health and COVID-19 resources. His work focuses on resolving complex regulatory compliance issues, responding to government and third-party investigations, audits, subpoenas and other inquiries and developing, structuring and implementing provider-focused business arrangements.
James Wooll – Spencer Fane
Practice: construction, oil and gas and professional malpractice
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Wooll advises clients on issues involving construction law, liquor licensing and brewery law and professional malpractice matters. A former law clerk for Chief Judge Claus Hume of the Colorado Court of Appeals, Wooll has jury trial experience in both state and federal courts.
Jonah Brotman – Stinson LLP
Practice: real estate & public finance, banking and financial services and tax credit and incentive finance
Alma Mater: New York University Law School, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Brotman is a real estate and public finance attorney advising investors, developers and community development entities on finances. He has knowledge of new markets tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, renewable energy tax credits and opportunity funds. Brotman advises clients on the unique structuring and compliance implications of transactions in federal and state tax credit projects.
Jerrico Perez – Vicente Sederberg
Practice: administrative law, regulatory compliance and licensing
Alma Mater: University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Perez is based in VS’s Denver office, where she focuses her practice on administrative law, regulatory compliance and licensing. She is a leader of the firm’s administrative law practice, and has helped clients obtain cannabis business licenses through competitive and non-competitive application processes in several states and Canada.
CiCi Cheng – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP
Practice: commercial litigation, antitrust and intellectual property
Alma Mater: University of Colorado Law School
Cheng represents companies in breach of contract, trade secret, antitrust and commercial class action matters. Recently, she helped win a $14.3 million arbitration award, plus attorney’s fees, in a contentious franchise dispute between two publicly traded cannabis companies. Prior to joining WTO, Cheng was an associate in the Denver office of an AmLaw 200 firm. She also served a judicial clerkship in the Colorado Supreme Court.
Johan Flynn – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP
Practice: product liability and environmental litigation
Alma Mater: University of Maryland Law School
Flynn serves as national coordinating counsel and trial counsel to product manufacturers facing asbestos wrongful death litigation. During his career, he has implemented strategies to manage more than 30,000 individual asbestos matters. Prior to joining WTO, Flynn was an attorney in the Baltimore office of a personal injury defense firm.
Brian Osterman – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP
Practice: commercial litigation, healthcare professional liability and personal injury defense
Alma Mater: Notre Dame Law School
Osterman defends clients against medical malpractice lawsuits. He has won early dismissals and favorable settlements for dozens of healthcare providers and facilities facing allegations of negligence and eight-figure damages claims. Prior to joining WTO, Osterman was an associate at a healthcare defense boutique in New York City.
Judith Youngman – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP
Practice: commercial litigation, class actions, antitrust & competition and product liability
Alma Mater: University of Texas Law School
Youngman defends clients in high-stakes antitrust, class action and product liability litigation. Youngman develops pre-litigation strategies involving underperforming contracts with billions of dollars at stake. Prior to joining WTO, Youngman was an attorney in the Austin, Texas office of a national litigation boutique. She also served a judicial clerkship in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Editor’s Note: this new partners list was updated Jan. 21 to include Polsinelli’s shareholders.