Our attorneys advise and defend public employers in federal and state courts in breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, employment discrimination, non-compete, non-payment, non-solicitation, and proprietary information claims, and in discrimination or retaliation claims based on age, disability, free speech, gender, national origin, and race. We also represent public employers and employees in investigatory proceedings before government agencies such as the EEOC, the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the Federal Wage and Hour Division, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Colorado Department of Labor.

Our attorneys have an unparalleled depth of experience advising and defending our clients in state and federal courts on matters concerning sovereign immunity and the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act. We advise our clients on required notices of legal claims, limitations on tort liability, assertion of governmental immunity as a bar or defense, waiver of and exceptions to liability, and limitations on monetary judgments. We have successfully defended countless public entities and their officials and employees from alleged tort claims. 

Our attorneys counsel and defend our clients in state and Federal courts in all aspects of land use and zoning law, including annexation, affordable housing, complex and competing land use regulations, conservation easements, development agreements, historic preservation, mining permits, oil and gas permits, planned unit developments, short-term rental regulations, special use permits, subdivisions, roads, takings, vested rights, urban development, and zoning. We also represent our land use clients faced with federal and state takings, regulatory takings, equal protection, and due process claims.

Our attorneys are well versed in advising and defending our clients in high-profile jail, police, and sheriff’s actions, including those concerning the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act and civil rights claims alleging excessive force, cruel and unusual punishment, unreasonable search and seizure, false arrest, false imprisonment, deliberate indifference, racial profiling, and sexual misconduct.

Our attorneys provide our public entity clients, as well as the public self-insurance pools, with risk management and insurance analysis and advice. In addition, we advise our clients on best practices for identifying, mitigating, and managing risk and provide training to public officials and employees to assist them in their risk management efforts. We also collaborate with public employers to reduce the risks of litigation and disputes through reviews of employee handbooks and oversight of workplace investigations and terminations.

Our attorneys conduct special investigations into public official and employee conduct for our public entity clients. We prepare written summaries and reports on the results of those independent investigations.

Our attorneys have served as expert witnesses for public entities in attorneys’ fees and costs proceedings, providing expert reports and live testimony.

Our attorneys have over one hundred years of collective experience representing public entities in state and federal trial and appellate courts. We provide our clients with pre-litigation claims analysis and investigation, draft complaints and answers, draft and file pre-trial motions and briefs, prepare and respond to written discovery requests, attend depositions and pre-trial hearings, try cases to judges and juries, file post-trial motions and briefs (including motions for attorneys’ fees and costs), and assist clients with post-trial judgment issues. We also have significant experience representing our clients in appeals before the Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.