Attorney Positions

Recruiting at Grimshaw & Harring starts locally.   While we have a long standing Summer Clerk program, we do not hire a new class of attorneys each year.  Rather, we hire new associates only after assessing our long term needs.  We take pride in the fact that we have grown thoughtfully over the last fifteen years, hiring when necessary to achieve a long term growth plan, rather than simply to grow larger. Our low attrition rate is evidence that each attorney is hired with the intent that the fit will be long term.  Please direct all inquiries to Paul J. Hanley.

 **  There are no attorney positions available at this time.
Lateral hires will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  **

Administrative and Staff Positions

Our mission is to achieve success for our clients. To help us make this happen, we understand it is imperative to have an exemplary support staff.  For our 24 attorneys, we employ five paralegals, seven legal assistants, and an administrative staff of six more. Most of our staff members have been with us for years, with more than half crossing the ten year mark. We believe in our family, and should we need to add to it, we will post available positions here.

**  There are no staff positions available at this time.  **

Presently, our water lawyers are pursuing decrees for complicated augmentation plans for the Denver Technological Center and other Southeast Denver Metropolitan area special districts. They represent the Douglas County Water Resource Authority in implementing a conjunctive use project that enjoys unprecedented West Slope/East Slope/Denver Water Board/State Engineer cooperation, to augment the water supplies of water districts and metropolitan districts in Douglas County. They also represent the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, which presently provides water and wastewater services to a significant part of the population of Arapahoe County.

Our water lawyers have taught water law and they speak on water law. For years, Wayne Schroeder has annually updated a summary of Colorado water law that he previously authored in Chapter 76, Krendl, 2A Colorado Methods of Practice (4th ed. West, 1998 & Supp. 2002), and a similar summary of Colorado water law that appears in Clark, Waters and Water Rights, Colorado Water Law (D. Beck ed. 1991).

Attorneys serving Water Law

• Schroeder, Wayne B.

We are also counsel to a number of commercial banks, thrifts, insurance companies and other lending institutions. Our real estate lawyers serve many out-of-state lenders on a local-counsel basis, addressing their real estate loans in Colorado and providing documentation and opinion letters as to compliance with Colorado law. In addition to structuring and closing real estate loans, our attorneys handle workouts and restructuring of problem loans and foreclosures when loans are in default. 

Real Estate Related Areas

• Acquisition Sales and Leasing
• Community Associations
• Construction Law
• Development
• Eminent Domain
• Finance
• Land Use – Zoning
• Litigation

Attorneys serving Finance

• Berkowitz, Larry W.
• Dalton, Matthew R.
• Dykstra, Russell W.
• Harring, Wendy J.
• Hunsaker, James M.
• Kron, Norman F.
• McAskin, Marcus A.
• McNeish, Gilbert F.
• Schroeder, Wayne B.

This depth of industry experience uniquely qualifies our lawyers with the legal excellence and industry specific sensitivity necessary to form a productive and dynamic project team. Our methodology of problem solving client service is reflected by Grimshaw & Harring’s representation of many successful project finance transactions.

Attorneys serving Public/Private Partnership (P3)

• Russell W. Dykstra
• Wendy J. Harring
• Matthew R. Dalton
• Norman F. Kron
• James M. Hunsaker

Our insurance coverage attorneys are regularly called upon to advise other counsel seeking the firm’s particular insurance coverage expertise, including in-house corporate attorneys and general counsel, insurance defense lawyers, legislators considering new laws, city and county attorneys, environmental attorneys, and general practitioners representing businesses and individuals. We are regularly called upon to represent out-of-state clients because of our unique experience, and we serve as counsel for a wide variety of public entities and private companies, including agricultural products companies, aircraft manufacturers, cities and counties, commercial landlords, construction companies, dry cleaners, environmental consulting firms, lenders, mining companies, real estate developers, ski area owners, wastewater treatment plants, and water and sanitation districts.

For more information about our insurance coverage practice, please contact William J. Brady.

Litigation and Appeals Related Areas

• Antitrust and Competition Law
• Appeals
• Business Litigation
• Class Actions
• Construction Litigation
• Eminent Domain
• Employment Litigation
• Insurance Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation

Our liquor licensing practice focuses on all of the needs of liquor permit holders in Colorado from application and renewal to sale or transfer. Our clients include restaurants, hotels, bars, nightclubs, golf courses, developers, and other retail establishments selling alcohol, beer, wine, or liquor.

Our attorneys take care to demonstrate that all of the requirements for the issuance of the license have been satisfied, and to whatever extent possible, address concerns. Specific areas of our liquor licensing practice include:

• Obtaining new liquor licenses
• Negotiating contracts on behalf of buyers and sellers of business establishments
• Preparing all documents related to a liquor license transfer
• Representing clients in liquor license hearings
• Appealing the denial of a liquor license transfer
• Appealing the denial of a liquor license renewal
• Appealing the denial of a liquor license issuance
• Alterations of licensed premises
• Zoning issues

Grimshaw & Harring lawyers also have the experience and expertise to advise liquor licensees concerning other legal issues directly related to their daily business.

Attorneys practicing in the areas of Liquor Licensing:

• Larry W. Berkowitz

Other Land Use – Zoning Related Areas:

• Assisted Living Housing
• Liquor Licensing

Our attorneys have tried or settled dozens of cases involving Denver International Airport (DIA), E-470 Public Highway Authority’s toll road around Denver, the Colorado Department of Transportation’s project to expand Interstate 25 (T-REX), and various FasTracks projects.  We have also completed various urban renewal projects in which we represented private landowners.  We have handled many of Colorado’s significant public improvement projects, dating back to the acquisition of rights of way for Colorado’s major interstate highways.  We also have handled acquisitions for open space, recreation, drainage improvement projects, water pipelines, city halls, roadways, schools, and even a county jail.

Our eminent domain practice also includes appellate work - we have significant experience in both the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court.  Our lawyers are also frequent lecturers at continuing legal education seminars as well as conferences and seminars relating to land use, planning, trial techniques and appraisal methodology.

Attorneys serving Eminent Domain

• Schroeder, Wayne B.

See also

• Real Estate Litigation
• Land Use Litigation

Contact Information

Mr. Schroeder represents both public and private sector clients in water, eminent domain, environmental  and land use law and litigation. He has negotiated and closed dozens of transactions involving the sale of water rights, and he has settled or tried hundreds of cases in eminent domain, water, environmental and land use, including 42 U.S.C. §1983. Mr. Schroeder has offered argument over seventy times in his appellate practice, primarily in his listed areas of practice, and has represented businesses in hazardous waste cleanup litigation. Many of these cases established new principles that have become part of Colorado law. He has also published numerous articles and practice manual chapters and lectured in those areas of practice, and he continues to provide the Colorado update to 6 R. Clark, Waters and Water Rights 61. In addition to his admission to the Colorado bar in 1968, Mr. Schroeder is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Practice Areas

• Eminent Domain
• Litigation and Appeals
• Environmental Law
• Water Law

Education

• University of Denver (B.A., 1964)
• University of Colorado (J.D., 1968).

Publications & Presentations

• Colorado Water Law, Author – 6 R. Clark, Waters and Water Rights 61 (R. Beck ed. 1991, revised annually)
• Competing Condemnations–Prior Public Use Doctrine, Balancing Competing Condemnation Interests, Dominant Eminent Domain, Author and Speaker, Eminent Domain, CLE International Seminar 1999
• Fundamentals of Water Law in Colorado–Protecting Water Rights, Use and Quality, Author and Speaker, National Business Institute (1997)
• Getting Successful Results in Colorado Eminent Domain Actions, Author and Speaker, NBI Continuing Legal Education Seminar 2002
• Land Use Planning and Eminent Domain in Colorado, Author and Speaker, NBI Continuing Legal Education Seminar 2001
• Pre-Condemnation Issues, Author and Speaker, Eminent Domain, CLE International Seminar 1998
• Water Law, Author, 2A Colorado Methods of Practice 256, C. Krendl Rev. 3^rd ed., 1991
• Water Law Lecturer, Program of Advanced Professional Development, University of Denver College of Law, 1979-1983
• Water Rights Acquisitions and Related Issues, Co-Author, Colorado Eminent Domain, CLE, International Seminar 2006
• Water Rights in Takings Litigation, Co-Author and Speaker, Colorado Water Law, CLE International Seminar 2006

Memberships, Awards & Recognition 

• American, Colorado and Denver Bar Associations
• The University Club
• Best Lawyers in America for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law (2008, 2009, 2010)

Reported Cases

• Moreland Properties, LLC v. City of Thornton, 559 F.Supp.2d 1133 (D.Colo 2008)
• School District No. 12 v. Security Life of Denver Ins. Co., 185 P.3d 781 (Colo. 2008)
• Droste v. Board of County Comm’rs, 159 P.3d 601 (Colo. 2007)
• School District No. 12 v. Security Life of Denver Ins. Co., 179 P.3d 1 (Colo. App. 2007)
• Cherokee Metropolitan District v. Simpson, 148 P.3d 142 (Colo. 2006)
• Gold v. Duncan Ostrander & Dingess, P.C., 143 P.3d 1192 (Colo. App. 2006)
• Deutsch v. Kalcevic, 140 P.3d 340 (Colo. App. 2006)
• Department of Transportation v. First Place, LLC, 148 P.3d 261 (Colo. App. 2006)
• E-470 Public Highway Authority v. Revenig, 140 P.3d 227 (Colo. App. 2006)
• Droste v. Board of County Commissioners, 141 P.3d 852 (Colo. App. 2005)
• E-470 Public Highway Authority v. Revenig, 91 P.3d 1038 (Colo. 2004)
• In re Black Forest Fire/Rescue Protection District, 85 P.3d 591 (Colo. App. 2003)
• Droste v. Board of County Commissioners, 85 P.3d 585 (Colo. App. 2003)
• Silver Dollar Metropolitan District v. Goltra, 66 P.3d 170 (Colo. App. 2002)
• Board of County Commissioners v. Park County Sportsmens Ranch, LLP, 45 P.3d 629 (Colo. 2002) (as amicus curiae)
• Animas Valley Sand & Gravel Co. v. Board of County Commissioners, 38 P.3d 59 (Colo. 2001)
• E-470 Public Highway Auth. v. Jagow, 2001 WL 128464 (Colo. Ct. App. 2001)
• Santa Fe Trails Ranches Property Owners Ass’n. v. Simpson, 990 P.2d 46 (Colo. 1999)
• C-470 Joint Venture v. Trizec Colorado, Inc., 176 F.3d 1289 (10th Cir. 1999)
• City of Grand Junction v. City and County of Denver, 960 P.2d 675 (Colo. 1998)
• Farmland Industries, Inc. v. Colorado & Eastern Railroad Co., Inc., 944 F. Supp. 1492 (D. Colo. 1996)
• Farmland Industries, Inc. v. Colorado & Eastern Railroad Co., Inc., 922 F. Supp. 437 (D. Colo. 1996)
• People ex rel. Simpson v. Highland Irrigation Co., 917 P.2d 1242 (Colo. 1996)
• City of Grand Junction v. Ute Water Conservancy Dist., 900 P.2d 81 (Colo. 1995),
• City of Colorado Springs v. Board of County Commissioners, 895 P.2d 1105 (Colo. Ct. App. 1995) cert. denied, 116 S.Ct. 564 (1995)
• United States v. Colorado & Eastern Ry. Co., 50 F.3d 1530 (10th Cir. 1995)
• American Water Development, Inc. v. City of Alamosa, 874 P.2d 352 (Colo. 1994), cert. denied, 115 S. Ct. 575 (1994)
• United States v. Colorado & Eastern Railroad Co., Inc., 832 F. Supp. 304 (D. Colo. 1993), 1993 WL 350171 (D. Colo.)
• Bijou Irrigation Dist. v. Empire Club, 804 P.2d 175 (Colo. 1991), cert. denied, 111 S. Ct. 2017 (1991)
• Denver West Metropolitan Dist. v. Geudner, 786 P.2d 434 (Colo. Ct. App. 1989)
• Platte River Power Authority v. Nelson, 775 P.2d 82 (Colo. Ct. App. 1989)
• Fort Lyon Canal Co. v. Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy Dist., 762 P.2d 1375 (Colo. 1988)
• Lincoln Sav. and Loan Ass’n v. State of Colorado, 768 P.2d 733 (Colo. Ct. App. 1988)
• City and County of Denver v. Vail Valley Consol. Water Dist., 751 P.2d 68 (Colo. 1988)
• Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy Dist. v. Fort Lyon Canal Co., 720 P.2d 133 (Colo. 1986)
• Lake Meredith Reservoir Co. v. Amity Mut. Irr. Co., 698 P.2d 1340 (Colo. 1985)
• Board of County Commissioners v. Blecha, 697 P.2d 416 (Colo. Ct. App. 1985)
• Broyles v. Fort Lyon Canal Co., 695 P.2d 1136 (Colo. 1985)
• City of Thornton v. Farmers Reservoir & Irrig. Co., 194 Colo. 526, 575 P.2d 382 (1978)
• Board of County Com’rs of Weld County v. Loyd Hodge & Sons, Inc., 534 P.2d 638 (Colo. 1975)
• Denver Urban Renewal Authority v. Marshall Mfg. Co., 35 Colo. Ct. App. 227, 532 P.2d 746 (1975)
• Board of County Com’rs of Mesa County v. Wilcox, 35 Colo. Ct. App. 215, 533 P.2d 50 (1975)
• Webster v. Colorado Dept. of Revenue, 530 P.2d 988 (Colo. Ct. App. 1974)
• Monen v. State Dept. of Highways, 33 Colo. Ct. App. 69, 515 P.2d 1246 (1973)

Contact Information

Ms. Mayers practices in the areas of real estate (with an emphasis on community associations), insurance coverage disputes, employment law, civil and commercial litigation and collections.  In her practice, she acts as general counsel to a large number of condominium, townhome, single family, resort and mixed-use developments, and she provides counsel to special districts that have been assigned design review and covenant enforcement powers.  As part of her litigation practice, Lisa represents insurance policyholders in disputes with their insurance carriers and personal injury plaintiffs.  She litigates cases before state and federal courts in Colorado, as well as the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Lisa K. Mayers is a Colorado native, and was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1993, and the United States District Court, District of Colorado in 1994.

Practice Areas

• Litigation and Appeals
• Bankruptcy
• Community Associations
• Member of our Special Assets Restructuring Group
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Employment Law

Education

• University of Denver (J.D. 1993). Phi Alpha Delta
• The Colorado College (B.A., Economics, 1989)
• Kansai Gaidai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan (1987)

Publications & Presentations

• Securing Debt and Borrowing Money By a Homeowners’ Association, 2004 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, Community Associations Institute, Rocky Mountain Chapter.
• City of Littleton, Wallis and Insurance for Multi-Year Liability Claims, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers, 29 Colo. Law. 5 (Feb. 2000). The authors are coverage counsel who represented the City of Littleton in City of Littleton v. Compass Insurance, both in the trial court and before the Colorado Supreme Court.
•  Recovery of Non-Economic Damages in Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer Cases, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers, 27 Colo. Law. 95 (Nov. 1998). Physicians in Colorado may be liable for emotional distress damages if they fall below the legal standard of care in failing to aggressively pursue and definitively diagnose symptoms of cancer or other life-threatening diseases in a timely and responsible manner. So long as an increased risk of harm develops from the unchecked growth of cancer [even though the risk is unlikely to materialize], medical malpractice plaintiffs in Colorado have a cause of action for emotional distress resulting from a delayed diagnosis. This article examines the recent opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court in Boryla v. Pash and its likely impact on physicians and patients in Colorado.1 The authors represented the plaintiff both at trial and through both levels of appeal.

Memberships and Community Service

• Colorado and Denver Bar Associations
• Community Associations Institute, Rocky Mountain Chapter
• Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
• Woman’s Educational Society of The Colorado College, Former Board Member

Reported Cases

• Kerns v. Kerns, 2002 WL 1050471 (Colo. 2002)
• Compass Insurance Co. v. City of Littleton, 984 P.2d 606 (Colo. 1999)
• Boryla v. Pash, 960 P.2d 123 (Colo. 1998)
• Englewood v. Commercial Union Assur. Cos., 940 P.2d 948 (Colo. App. 1996)
• Boryla v. Pash, 937 P.2d 813 (Colo. App. 1996)

Contact Information

Mr. Harring has over forty years of commercial litigation experience representing diverse clients in trials and appeals in both state and federal court. Mr. Harring also maintains an active practice representing the firm’s special district and municipal clients in contract negotiations and litigation.

Richard L. Harring was born in DeWitt, Iowa on July 2, 1937, admitted to the Iowa bar in 1962, and to the Colorado, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit in 1963.

Practice Areas

• Litigation and Appeals
• Construction Law
• Probate and Estate Planning

Education

• University of Iowa (B.A., 1959; J.D. 1962). Phi Delta Phi

Memberships

• Board of Editors, Iowa Law Review, 1961-1962
• Law clerk to Roy L. Stephenson, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Des Moines, Iowa, 1962-1963
• Denver, Colorado, and American Bar Associations
• American Judicature Society
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America