Benton Barton will be speaking at the 4th Annual Risk Control Seminar for Architects, Engineers, and Environmental Professionals at the Coors Field Events Center on Wednesday, April 11th. Benton’s session, “Winning the First Inning: Smart Ways to Proactively Deal with...
Colorado Super Lawyers® has chosen twenty-three Hall & Evans attorneys for inclusion in the 2018 list. Eleven attorneys were recognized as Super Lawyers® while another twelve were recognized as “Rising Stars.” In addition, attorney Valerie Garcia was listed...
Hall & Evans’ attorneys Gillian Dale and Andrew Ringel obtained a defense verdict in Adams County District Court on March 16, 2018, after a five-day jury trial. The plaintiff brought claims against a school district and one of its officers after her employment...
Matthew Ninneman will be speaking at a one-day Construction Law Conference in Denver, Colorado on Monday, April 30th. Matthew’s session, “On the Defense,” will focus on the mitigation of liability for design professionals. The conference is presented by Colorado Law...
Hall & Evans’ attorneys Ryan Winter and Bryan Gogarty obtained a complete defense verdict in Arapahoe County District Court, after a four-day jury trial. The case arose out of an alleged slip-and-fall incident. Plaintiff asserted a claim pursuant to the...
Last month, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) approved a set of rules that codify many of the requirements in the emergency order the State issued in the wake of the April 2017 accident in Firestone, Colorado. In that accident, a buildup of...
Under Dodd-Frank, employers may bar employee retaliation claims if the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) fails to hear the whistle. On February 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court did just that when it confirmed whistleblower protection under the...
Benton Barton has been hard at work for the past year as Program Chair for ALFA International’s upcoming International Client Seminar starting March 1, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The program’s theme is, “Leaving It Better Than You Found It: How We Can Lead, Inspire...
On January 22, 2018, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Artis v. District of Columbia, which concluded 28 U.S.C. § 1367, the statute governing the supplemental jurisdiction of federal courts, operated to toll indefinitely the statute of limitations...
On January 22, 2018, the Colorado Supreme Court released its opinion in Norton v. Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Inc., upholding the trial court’s dismissal of a suit alleging that a state government agency and Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood violated the...
