By Don Knox, Ali McNally and Matt Masich, LAW WEEK COLORADO
WHO’S ON OUR DECADE’S BEST LAWYERS LIST? Here’s who: Rich Baer, Michael Burg, Stacy Carpenter, Steve Farber, Cole Finegan, Jim Lyons, John Moye, Jim Mulligan, Michael O’Donnell and C. Jean Stewart. Pick up a copy of the print edition for full details. We were aided in our selections by three current or past chairs of the Denver Bar Association’s Seniors Committee: Don McMichael, Bob Fullerton and Jim Bayer. So — who’s on your list? Drop us a line at newsroom@lawweekcolorado.com, and we’ll publish the most intriguing submissions.
EYES OF NATION are on case of Burlington 12-year-old suspected in deaths of parents, Summit DA Mark Hurlbert writes.
PUEBLO ATTORNEY DON BANNER of Banner and Bower P.C. hopes to persuade Pueblo to allow a nuclear reactor at the proposed Clean Energy Park.
JAPANESE RELIEF: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton says it will match dollar for dollar up to $50,000 in attorney and staff contributions. Let us know here what your firm or organization is doing.
SUTHERS’ OFFICE gives $600K, most of it from Countrywide settlement, to foreclosure hotline.
WELD CHIEF DEPUTY DA ROBB MILLER says in opening statement in murder case that woman prayed her husband would die. Defense attorney Danielle McCarthy blames woman’s boyfriend, saying he was unstable, violent.
GESSLER WILL CONDUCT Saguache County election review.
PERKINS COIE’S KAREN SAMUELS JONES is this year’s recipient of the Joy S. Burns Women Of Enterprise Award.
MAN ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC THREATS agrees to intensive supervised probation.
PUEBLO DA APPEALS water permit.
JUDGE DANIEL KAUP to hear closing arguments from attorneys on both sides of the medical marijuana debate March 22.
BERENBAUM WEINSHIENK counseling firm on over-the-counter market.
ATTORNEYS BRIEFED KEY CITY LEADERS in Aurora and Denver about a federal lawsuit that will likely mean both cities will have to make changes to ordinances banning the breed.
STAN GARNETT CAMPAIGN PR CHIEF hired to write about DPS elections.
COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS to hear oral arguments in two cases Friday at Thornton’s Horizon High School.
TODAY AT THE BAR ASSOCIATION
* Noon, Recent Changes to the Medical Practice Act, health law section.
* Noon, Doing Your Own Divorce legal clinic.
* 10 a.m. tomorrow, elder law.
* Noon tomorrow, Update on Proxy Statement Disclosures and Strategies for 2011 Annual Stockholders Meetings, securities law section.
HE SAID IT: “The most successful attorneys are the ones who can deal with failure, deal with criticism, deal with challenges and move on.” — Christopher Lujan, deputy director of career services for the City & County of Denver.
IT SAID IT: “The University of Colorado Law School is the same excellent school that it was yesterday before new rankings came out. Nothing about our vision and our direction has changed.” — CU Law School.
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