Awards & Professional Distinctions
• America’s Top 100 Bet – the – Company Litigators 2019 &
2021
• The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Trial Lawyers
• Named by the Denver Business Journal as the 2015 Power Book
Leader in the industry of Law
• Named by Law Week Colorado as a 2015 Lawyer of the Year
• Selected by her peers as the Best Lawyers’
Denver Employment Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year”
• AV Rated (top peer rating available) since 2006
• Named to The Best Lawyers in America:
• Employment Law – Management, and • Litigation – Labor
& Employment
• Selected for America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators for
Colorado in 2017 – 2022
• American Institute of Trial Lawyers Litigator of the Year 2020 –
2023
• See “Cases” tab for a listing of published cases
Education
• J.D., Order of St. Ives, University of Denver Sturm College of
Law, 1995
• B.A., Cum Laude, University of Washington, 1992
Bar and Court Admissions
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• United States District Court for the District Court of Colorado
• State of Colorado
Memberships
• American Bar Association
• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association
• Colorado Women’s Bar Association (former officer)
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Colorado Judicial Institute (member of the Judicial Awards
Committee; former Board Member)
• Faculty of Federal Advocates (former Board Member)
Community Involvement
• Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy
(Deposition and Trial Skills Programs) • Mentor, DU Law
Professional Mentoring Program